“Forgot to set your alarm? You’re usually up before Mason is.”“Yeah. My alarm is always set at home, and I didn’t even think about setting o...e here.”“There is an alarm in your room, you just didn’t see it. It’s built into the room and is voice activated. Did you see the small booklet on the end table beside your bed?”“Nope,” I said, shaking my head.“It has all the details about the room, including all the voice commands. Give it a read later,” my dad finished.“I will, thanks.”It was pretty. However, whether it was prejudice or difference in views, she had never concurred with me on anything, not once. In meetings we always had the most scorching disputes which were usually ended with her calling me ‘Jerk’. She must have been born to hate me. We just had a hot clash that morning. She almost hurled her folder at my face. ‘I’m not kidding. I’m sorry,’ Nick winked, ‘but she did all the artwork of the new proposal and there is nobody who is better than her for the presentation.’ . She sat astride me and we continued to kiss, my skirt hitched up around my waist. Katie squeezed my boobs through my dress, parting the buttons from their holes at the same time. I was hot, aroused and dishevelled. Katie slithered down and together we pushed my chair back and she parted my legs as I sat down. Fortunately they were armless chairs enabling me to give her full access between my legs. Katie looked up at me one last time with a look that was so intense, so full of passion, I knew. So how did I come to be standing here, outside the bar where I knew he was singing tonight? Chance? When conference organisers wanted someone to speak on my specialist area in his city, I wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity. Maybe this was the time to lay my ghosts, to get to know someone at a deeper level than before. I didn’t tell him I was coming. I said I was attending a conference and would be away for a while. I didn’t want him to be concerned when I didn’t appear online for our.