It didn’t last long, though. Nathan soon put the rest of the orange away and wiped his hands with a wet tissue.
Then, he obediently took the pills from Lucinda, downed them with warm water, and motioned for the meeting to resume.
Oh God!
It was said that everyone was fated to meet their match.
Had Nathan found his at last? Had their boss been turned into a…
A henpecked boyfriend?
They would never have believed it if they hadn’t witnessed the whole scene unfold right before their eyes just now.
Nathan himself was unaffected by their bewilderment, as he was oblivious to it. Unbeknownst to him, the incident rapidly spread through the grapevine, until it reached every senior executive in the company.
The meeting lasted for a long while. When Nathan finally ended the video call, he turned to the woman beside him, who was still leisurely playing on her phone. He pounced on her and pinned her against the sofa.
“Hey! What are you doing?”
Lucinda glanced at the phone that had slipped from her hands and dropped to the floor. She struggled to get up, but her strength was no match against Nathan’s.
He loomed over her, slowly drawing near, until his warm breath fanned her cheeks.
He touched his nose against hers and whined, “If you won’t let me eat the oranges, I’ll just have to eat you.”
“Now, wait a minute!”
Lucinda’s face turned a furious shade of red. She blinked repeatedly as she tried to calm herself d
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own.
“You haven’t fully recovered yet.
You can’t do any strenuous exercise. Get a hold of yourself!”
Nathan became even more glum.
But she was right.
If he pushed her and insisted that he was all healed up, Lucinda would likely pack up her things and head back to the Simmons‘ residence at the break of dawn.
And if he relented, well, he wouldn’t be getting any sex at all in the foreseeable future.
It was a lose-lose situation.
He was sullen for a moment, and then it dwindled down to bitter resignation.
“ALL right, I’ll let you go. But I’m feeling much better now, you know. Should we at least sleep on the same bed together tonight?”