Logan Chapter 75

-Logan-

It’s a bit of a struggle to keep my mind on work today, but while I’m here I need to be as productive as possible. My days are starting to fill back up again as the department heads trust my presence back more and more. I had Anna block off my afternoon without any description of what I actually needed to do at the time. Oh, shit, speaking of Anna, she went through the plan for my morning and I’m just now realizing that I don’t have everything I need to look over for my next meeting. I page her desk and am met with an uncharacteristic pause.

“.... Sir?” She finally says. Is our intercom system broken?

“Yes, Anna, there’s a file that I need for the next meeting - do you have the updates on the Andersons? I just know it’ll get brought up. Are you okay, by the way?” I tag the last on, just to make sure. Usually, I would just let it go- maybe she’s having an off day- but I know Emory is out there and I haven’t had time to look at my phone and see how she’s getting along with the guys.

“I’m fine, sir. I’ll send it in.” Send it in? What does that mean? I get my answer quickly enough when Emory walks in with the file in her hands. Did she put Anna up to this or was it the other way around? Admittedly, Emory does have a sexy secretary vibe going with her artfully messy bun and pantsuit, cleavage just hinting out of the top. Damn, she might be the hottest woman I’ve ever seen.

“What is this, little rose?” I ask her as I pull her to my lap. I need to be prepping for the meeting, but I can skim it and make sure Jim is paying attention to his own department by making him lead. It’ll be good to show my department heads that I trust them to pick up responsibilities even when I’m back. It’s tenuous reasoning, even in my head.

“Anna just handed me this and told me you asked for it. I wonder what’s wrong with her today. Are you okay? Is there something coming through the vents here that makes people act weird?” I laugh a little at that. I guess Anna was just tired of making nice.

“If there is, I have a lot of lawsuits in my future. Go ahead and sit on the other side of the office instead of out with Anna. I’ll only have a couple of guys in here for the next meeting- they’ll fit well enough in front of my desk.” I can see immediately that she’s uncomfortable with the idea, but my wolf feels better with her in here where I can see her, anyway.

“I don’t know, Logan. I’m not qualified to be in these meetings. Aren’t there going to be a lot of questions about why I’m in here for them?” Even as she objects, I luxuriate in the feeling of her hands on my chest, smoothing the lapels of my suit. I love how she gets more and more comfortable with me by the day.

“I’ll tell them what I’ve told everyone else- it’s a matter of security. Besides, you won’t be able to hear anything and they’ll know that. It’ll be fine, little rose. Now walk over there nice and slow for me.” I smell her arousal bloom through the air at my shift in tone. That’ll do it. Hopefully we both calm down by the time her family gets here. I don’t think we’ll have time to do anything about it until tonight, but that’ll just make the anticipation all the sweeter. I know I’m having a hard time keeping off of her long enough to be decent during the day.

Emory flashes me an amused look and a sarcastic salute. “Yes sir, Mr. Úlfur.” She slides off my lap slowly and puts an extra swing in her hips as she saunters to the seating area of my office. Damn. I adjust myself as I wonder whether I might be a little masochistic. I try to put my mind off of it while I review this last file for when Jim and Hendrickson come in. I have just about ten minutes before they’re due in.

Emory is right, of course. I get strange looks from the both of them when they notice her across the room and I beckon them toward my desk instead. “Sorry gentlemen. The recent press attention has presented security issues for Ms. Davis here. She’s safer in here, and she won’t be a disruption. I’ve been looking at this file, Jim, do you have any more information on this account that I’m not seeing here?”

The meeting goes smoothly enough after that, and we’re about halfway through when I start to smell Emory’s arousal again. At first, I think that I moved in such a way as to stir up the scent from when she had been on my lap before, but then I feel her eyes on me and realize she likes the look of me in charge. Oh, little rose, you’re in trouble now, I think to myself as I try to contain my smirk. She’ll have a lot of interest to pay for this tonight.

One day she’ll understand that she’s practically waving a flag under my nose. I force myself to keep listening to the men in front of me even as I take deep breaths to pull in more of her delicious scent. Silverson would forgive me for yet another interlude on the way home, but Emory wouldn’t want to be anything less than put together to see her family again. Her brothers, in particular, would know the score immediately. I can’t embarrass her like that. I’m already trying to make up ground with them as it is.

Once I wrap things up with Jim and Hendrickson, I finish out the longest half day I’ve ever worked. There’s something about anticipation that makes a day feel like an eternity. I know Emory is incredibly nervous to introduce her family to me and the pack at large. I know she thinks we might not get along, or that we’ll think they’re hicks, but I’m so interested to see who she came from. I can’t wait to meet the people who shaped her. She’s shown me pictures and told me about each of them, but she can’t see them from the outside.

I get up and grab one of her jittery hands- stilling her tapping fingers as I pull her out of the chair and into my arms, where she belongs. She won’t hear any more of my reassurances until we’re all talking and getting along famously, so I just hold her silently for a minute and lay a hand low on her back to escort her home. Our home, where we’re letting our family visit and stay for a bit. It’s like every day there’s a new level of integration in our lives and I love every single one of them. Just to take her mind off of it a little bit, I slap her ass just as the front doors close behind us. “Chin up, little rose. If you can get through the meet and greet, I have a reward for you tonight. We’re going to talk at length about just what got you going during my meeting.” Her jaw drops and her entire face blazes red. Mission accomplished.