"Allie, we have a meeting at 1.15 at the Marlot hotel with the client we've been hoping to secure. Can I trust that you'll meet me there? I'm aware it...s on your lunch break, it's a lunch meeting. You can take your break after the meeting. I expect it to last an hour. Regards,Toby."A hotel? Toby had never booked them a room before, they usually just settled for a passionate quickie in the shower room... judging by the tingling she was feeling in her lower abdomen, now was not the time to be. Com success, such as Microsoft or Google, I may have been a multimillionaire. Well, I did not do that. Okay? I’m just like everyone else, a dumb loser who plays the lottery hoping to hit the big one. Yet, as soon as I stop playing my number, switch to another number or forget to play, that is when they will call my loser number making it a winning number. Just my luck, I’m cursed to continue to play this loser number until (gasp) I cannot play anymore. ‘Wow, it’s too bad that Freddie died. With his free hand he signed to Cole.'Cole. I don't like it. I'm nervous.'Cole took his hand and kissed his fingers, bright blue summer eyes looking directly at him. Here in Cole's own world he was so much braver and open than Jared thought he could be. Now that the barrier of touch had been breached, Cole couldn't keep his hands off him.'Stay.'Jared sat down at the chair directed to him at the end of the table with Cole's little sister Cory to his right. Cole stroked the back of his head, and. "Susan went to catch a shower, and I'm off to do the same. We'll see you at breakfast." She walked over, tilted her head slightly, and leaned in to kiss him. He returned it, with interest, and found his arms around her as his tongue decided to enter the game. She melted into him at first, then stiffened and pulled back. "I'd love to continue, but not until we've all talked about this. I'm not the only one who's looking at you as an emotional anchor, and I'm still not sure why there's such a.