“Sephie,” Viktor started, but paused. “You’re just… fuc king awesome.”
Ivan said, “you should’ve seen the tantrum she threw on her way out of the building. She was pi ssed. I have to say I’ve been wanting to be able to throw her out of the building for a long time now. Thank you for that.” He looked at Adrik, smirking.
“Let me guess, you hated her from pretty much the beginning?” I asked, smiling at Ivan.
He nodded. “She showed up a few times when Boss was busy and couldn’t see her. She would throw major tantrums, like that was going to make him want to see her. She never did it in front of him though, but she would scream and yell at me. It never once worked, but she kept trying.”
I looked at Adrik. “I’m beginning to question your choices in women.”
He shrugged his shoulders. “I didn’t even date her for that long. I think she was only a couple of months. She was very… boring.”
I held my hand up. “Don’t expand on that. I don’t need to know. Now, can we get out of here? My head is seriously pounding. from having to smell the entire bottle of perfume at once.” Adrik held me closer, his hands in my hair to try and give me some relief.
“Of course, solnishko. I’ll have someone fumigate the office too.”
“And the elevator. We smelled her when we left the 5th floor,” I said. I leaned into him, sniffing his clothes. “And we should. burn these clothes. It’s on everything. Burn the key fob too, I don’t even care.” “You don’t want your own key fob, princess?” Ivan asked.
“Why would I need one? I have six of them already,” I said, winking at him
Sephie
The four of us got in the elevator, me trying to breathe as little as possible. I looked at Ivan, grinning at him. “You guys should shower and change and then grab the other three and come upstairs. We’ll order food. Being bitchy makes me hungry.”
“You’re sure? I thought your head was hurting?” Viktor asked.
“I mean, it is. But I want to see the look on Ivan’s face when Misha tells him about what happened while you guys were away. I think not smelling this God-awful perfume anymore will help my headache go away. Seriously. I should’ve punched her just to see if I could restart her olfactory senses.”
I heard Viktor’s deep laugh as I pinched the bridge of my nose, closing my eyes. The doors dinged for their floor. Ivan said, “give us 20 minutes, princess.”
As the doors closed, Adrik wrapped his arms around me. “How bad is your headache, solnishko?”
“Not excruciating, but it’s not getting better either. I can’t get away from this smell though. I feel like I can taste it.”
He chuckled, kissing my temple. “We have just enough time to shower,” he whispered in my ear. I opened my eyes, looking up at him, knowing full well what he meant.
“You like it when I get all bitchy,” I said laughing.
“Surprisingly hot,” was all he said as the doors opened for the penthouse. He grabbed my hand, pulling me quickly toward the door.
The guys were already on the couches when we came out of the bedroom. At least Adrik had closed the bedroom door before ripping my clothes off.
“How’s your headache, princess?” Ivan asked.
“So much better now that I can smell again,” I said grinning at him.
“You’re getting headaches again, spider monkey?” Andrei asked, a look of genuine concern on his face.
Ivan looked to Andrei. “Vanessa.”
“WHAT?” Andrei and Misha both said at once.
Viktor said, “do you remember how she said she ‘lost’ the key fob for the elevator? Well, apparently she found it and used it this evening. She was in Boss’s office when we got back from the 5th floor.” “And… how did that go?” Misha asked, his wide smile across his face.
Ivan laughed. “We knew it was Vanessa as soon as we got on the elevator. She always wore the same perfume. I was more worried about Sephie seeing her and jumping to a wrong conclusion.” He looked to me, somewhat apologetically. “I don’t know why I worried about that. I should’ve known you’d see through whatever she was pulling right away.”
I winked at him, shaking my head. He continued, “when we got to the office, Vanessa was sitting on the edge of his desk. He was all the way at the other end of the desk, like he was trying to get away from her He stood up and walked all the way around the other side so he wouldn’t be anywhere near her to get to Sephic.”
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