Meeting His Match (A Match Me Novel) (Entangled Lovestruck) by Katee Robert Page B

years that didn’t involve him traveling the South to put things together, since it was being built in his hometown.
    He pressed a kiss to Addison’s forehead. “I wish I could say don’t wait up, but it might end up being a late night if my old man isn’t exaggerating.”
    “Like I said, I have work I’ve been neglecting since I got down here. Take care of your business and I’ll be here when you’re done.”
    Did she have any idea what those words did to him? He searched her face, but she seemed genuinely earnest. Like she had no idea she was offering him the world. He kissed her again. “I’ll call you later.”
    “Go, before you father comes in here looking for you and Gollum takes offense again.”
    With a laugh, he went.
    …
    Addison set to work on her computer. First, she pulled up all the profiles she’d spent the last week ignoring. It had been months since she wanted to match people with their soul mates. Now it was all she could think about. There were clients who needed to find their love and she was just the person to help them. She smiled as she remembered the look on Caine’s face before he left. He really was something. Things with his father hadn’t gone particularly well, but there was plenty of time to fix that before she left.
    She frowned. Did she still want to leave? Things that looked so simple before suddenly weren’t simple at all. It seemed cliché to say that the sex changed things. But it did. With her body still tingling from his touch, how was she supposed to be thinking about leaving? She frowned harder. Caine wasn’t hers. It didn’t matter how much she enjoyed him, it couldn’t happen. Knowing that shouldn’t hurt quite so much, but it did.
    Needing a distraction from the trap her mind had become, she opened up her client files. She might be a hot mess in her personal life right now, but she could at least help out people she was working for. Addison got to work bringing up different files and looking at them all at once.
    It was something she’d done ever since she started her matchmaking business, to be able to see all clients at once and see if anything stuck out. It didn’t always work, but sometimes two people would jump out at her and that would result in a spark on their first date. It was that first spark that had made her love this business initially, but that love had waned over the years. Who knew it would take a grouchy CEO to snap her out of it?
    She didn’t know if she should be thanking or cursing Caine for twisting her up as much as he had. Either way, it wasn’t going to help her tonight. She stared at her computer screen until the faces blurred, but all she could think about was the look in his eyes when he’d pushed into her. There was more than lust there, more than just desire in the damn near reverent way he touched her.
    And she’d responded. God, had she responded.
    She wasn’t getting any work done tonight, no matter how good her intentions were. With a sigh, she shut down the computer and opened the back door. “Gollum! Leo, Don, Raph, Mikey! Time to come in.” She smiled as they obediently trotted in, a little parade of white. Gollum immediately herded the pups into the giant bed Addison bought them the other day, and then settled in. “Good night. Sleep tight.”
    She climbed the stairs, her mind wandering. It was only when she got to the top that she realized she had no idea where she was supposed to sleep. Would it be too presumptuous to go to his bedroom? Or would she be sending the wrong signal if he came home and she was in her own? She stood there, frozen in place, until Gollum came up and nudged her hip. This was silly. Caine probably wouldn’t be home until morning, if then, and she was exhausted. What she needed was sleep—not to be sitting here obsessing about hurting his feelings. If she had half a brain, she’d get on a plane and never look back. But Addison couldn’t make herself leave.
    She didn’t even want to