Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

Chapter 701

It wasn’t Max who came through the door, but Annie.

Annie looked surprised to see her. “Ms. Brielle?”

Brielle nodded, watching as Annie walked straight to the desk, scooped up a hair clip, and slipped it into her purse. “Aren’t you heading out, Ms. Brielle?”

“The socializing isn’t over yet?”

Both asked at the same time.

Annie chuckled, “Not yet, probably another fifteen minutes or so. I got a call from my godfather, so I left early. Ms. Brielle, I passed your message on to Max. I’ve got to run now. I was worried you’d be waiting too long. Maybe give him a call to check in?”

Annie knew their phones were out of reach and messages couldn’t be delivered, so she dared to say so. She wanted to make Brielle feel more frustrated and more uncomfortable.

“Sure, thanks for the heads up.”

Brielle sat on the couch, helplessly watching the hair clip disappear into Annie’s bag as she departed, leaving the office quiet once

more.

started out lounging on the couch but gradually sat up straight with hands on her knees and a nervous

hopped into Murray’s car, a grin spreading across her face as the door closed. “Murray, I’ve managed to stir

mouth. Murray’s gaze on her was tender as if

face towards her, and passed the sweet from her lips

with desire. He was lost in her gaze and, after a moment, murmured,

to the candy, or something

back, legs propped up, her eyes full of mirth. “I’m in such a

fantastic mood today.”

something audacious, like another round of the role–play they had indulged in the night before. But he was so meek, so cautious, that he only dared to steal a glance at

Annie caught his look and smiled. “What’s

in beside Annie. She said nothing,

in her buoyant mood, Annie had no desire for sex, so she frowned slightly. “Haven’t I told you, when I want it, I’ll let you

know? Be

to the driver’s seat and pressed

she savored her candy, she might as well have been a teenager. She seemed like a girl who had grown up sheltered, but Murray knew all too well that Annie was no damsel from a sheltered tower yet she was