Worth the fight

bedroom, gently placing me down on the bed.  He takes off his pants and crawls into bed, his naked body spooned behind mine, his arms wrapped tightly around me.  As I drift off to sleep, I hear him say two words quietly.  “Thank you.” 
    Neither of us has moved when I wake the next morning.

Chapter 28
    Nico
    “Must be nice to have a lawyer make house calls.”  Preach tilts his chin toward the front desk where Sal is pointing Elle in my direction.  She smiles at me and I smile back on a draw down.  I’m thirty pull ups out from finishing my morning workout, but seeing Elle gives me a burst of adrenaline and it suddenly doesn’t feel like I’ve already chinned seventy. 
    It’s been more than a month now, and I’m still as into her as the day I met her.  She has no idea how sexy she is.  Her body is hot as hell when she’s naked underneath me, but she totally rocks the whole sexy librarian look when she’s dressed in those little, fitted, skirt suits for work. 
    “Hey , Preach.”
    “Hiya , Elle.  Your boy will be done in a few minutes.”
    She looks at me as I pull up on the bar and I watch her take in my shirtless torso as it flexes to bring my weight up and down.  Fuck, the way she looks at me like she wants to eat me, kills me sometimes. 
    “I kinda like him up there.  Maybe you can make him do some extra for me today?”  She teases Preach and he laughs.
    “You hear that Nico, the woman doesn’t think you’re working hard enough.”
    I finish my last pull up and jump from the bar.  I sweat ed clear through two shirts this morning and I’m soaked again.  Dripping, since I discarded the second shirt an hour ago. 
    Sporting a mischievous grin, I walk with purpose the few steps between Elle and me and lift her, rubbing my sweaty body all over her pretty crisp suit.  “Is that so, you think I’m slacking, huh?”  She screeches at me to put her down, but I hear the smile in her voice as she smacks my back in protest of my sweaty body ruining her suit.
    I place her down gently on her feet and give her a kiss on the mouth.  She pretends to be pissed, but she’s not and we both know it.  But we’ll play anyway.
    “I come all the way over here to pick up these contracts and this is the thanks I get.”  She motions to the wet marks I’ve left on her suit.   “Next t ime you’ll be sending a messenger over to deliver them to me.” 
    Preach walks away laughing.  “Come on, I’ll take a quick shower upstairs and you can take a look at the part I don’t understand.  I’ll let you watch me in the shower to make it up to you.”  I wink at her and take her hand and start toward the elevator without waiting for her response. 

Chapter 29
    Elle
    Nico comes out of the shower in a towel and I’m already sitting at the table half way done with the contract he wants me to look at.  He comes up behind me and moves my hair from one side of my neck before reaching down to nuzzle me.   He rubs his nose along the side of my neck and breathes deep.  “You smell so good.”
    “I used to.” 
    He chuckles and comes around the table to sit on the other side, opposite of me.
    “I’m not done reading yet, but what part don’t you like.  I don’t see anything too unusual so far.”
    “That’s because you haven’t read my other ones.”  Nico leans his elbows on the table and clasps his hands together.  It’s a common every day posture, but there ’s nothing common about it when Nico Hunter does it.  His normally muscular biceps are huge, even more defined from his morning workout.  Everything about him is just so purely, deliciously male.  His square jaw, his green eyes that turn grey with desire when he comes near me, the way he looks at me like he’s a hunter and I’m his prey.  He’s incredibly distracting.  Even more so sitting in nothing but a towel.  Lucky towel.
    I bring my eyes back to his and he’s watching me with the sexy half grin that makes me melt and I know I’ve been caught looking at him. 
    “See something you like, Babe?”  His voice is raspy and sexy as all hell.
    “What?  No!  This is strictly a professional visit.  I have to get back to the office.  William is coming at three for a deposition on a case where we have co-defendants and I want to read this through before I pass it to him.”
    Nico’s jaw flexes and his playfulness is gone.  The mention of spending my afternoon with William has the effect of throwing a bucket