CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Shane's eyes flashed with excitement at the new offer.

Well, I can't be too unreasonable.

With a grunt, he hung up.

Natalie knew him well enough to know that he had agreed. With a chuckle, she turned her attention back to Joyce. “I'm sacrificing so much for you, Joyce. When we go back, you're going to work extra hard for me.”

At those words, Natalie turned off the light and with an almighty yawn, shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep almost immediately.

It had been a long day for her, after the jet lag and the night of drinking. Her head began to feel heavy for wanting to get some sleep.

The following day, Joyce woke up feeling rejuvenated. She was dumbfounded at the sight of Natalie sleeping next to her.

“Nat, why are you in my bed?” Joyce gave Natalie a shove.

“What's going on?” Natalie mumbled as she opened her bleary eyes.

“You tell me! Why are you in my bed?” Joyce persisted.

Natalie massaged her head as she struggled to sit upright. “You have the nerve to ask me that!” she replied in a huff. “You were so drunk last night that after I'd dropped you off in your room, you cried and clung on to me, insisting that I kept you company.”

recall the events of the night before through the

“Go back to sleep if you're still feeling dizzy,” she suggested. “You had a lot to drink last night. I have to console

Joyce alone in her room, who was sitting on the bed

door cautiously and tiptoed toward the bed as she did not know if Shane was already

but he was nowhere

he go?” Natalie muttered to

search for him, a pair of arms shot out and

distinctly aware of the heartbeat against her back and the frantic

came Shane's low

her tongue out at him in

around to face him. After gazing at her for some moments, he lifted her chin

in horror. “I have not brushed my teeth!” she

did not respond to that either but kissed her with renewed

though it carried a hint of a punishment of

to Natalie that

for her breaking her promise to him the

after that realization. Instead, she wrapped her arms around his neck and responded to

not mind her stale morning

a powerful heave, he threw

as he was and began