Chapter 84
Ella packed her stuff and carried it out to the car before going and sitting on the sofa waiting for Roman.
"This is the last warning. I'll leave in two minutes." She shouted up the stairs.
He walked down slowly.
"I heard you the first three times you shouted at me." He grinned.
"I don't know why you want to come anyway it will be boring for you standing around watching me work." She told him.
He dropped his bag by the door and turned and kissed her.
"Now I seem to be waiting for you." He said.
"Ha Ha" she muttered and stood up.
"You got house keys?" she asked him.
He nodded.
"Right." She stood and went out to her car.
Roman gave a quick look around and pulled the door shut and locked it. He put his bag on the back seat and climbed into the passenger side.
"I suppose we are going to have to put up with your music?" he asked and saw her give a quick grin.
She put on Guns and Roses greatest hits and turned the volume up, but not as loud as if she had been on her own. He grinned over at her and watched her out the corner of his eye as she navigated across country to their destination. Eventually he found himself drifting off to sleep. Hearing her bemused chuckle as his eyes drifted shut.
She woke him up when they reached the hotel.
"Hey." He said.
She grinned at him.
"We're here sleepy." She told him.
"It's my wife's fault she went though my condoms and found a brand we hadn't used before so she tested them out." He told her smirking as she blushed. "And then had to do a comparison with two other brands."
"Well I needed to know which ones I preferred."
"Uh huh." He smiled at her and leaned forward to kiss her.
"Behave." She warned him. "I do not want the hotel to think that I'm having a fling. I'm here representing my favourite clients."
He looked at her.
"Are you serious?" he asked.
She nodded.
"They are Christian too, so I've had to book you in a separate room because I'm under my work name." She said softly.
She climbed out of the car and shut the door quickly so it muffled his swearing. She grabbed her bags out of the back and went into the hotel to check in. She waited for Roman to join her. He still looked unhappy.
"Can you not look as though I've just told you I want a divorce. It's one night. You would have been sleeping alone anyway." She said out the side of her mouth.
He glared at her.
"Plus I'm here working Roman Harris so I'm not spending all night having kinky sex with you when I have to be up at 5am."
He looked at her.
"Never stopped you before." He said softly.
She glared at him before taking her place at the reception.
"I have a booking made under the name Addison." She said.
The receptionist nodded.
"Ms Addison." She said and looked up. "And a Mr Harris."
Ella grinned.
"And this is the bit where it gets complicated." She told them. "I need to pay for the rooms in cash."
"Ok that is not at all dodgy." Roman said.
She glared at him.
"Not a problem Ms Addison."
Roman flinched when he heard her referred to by her maiden name but felt El's hand reach out and take hold of his to give it a compassionate reassuring squeeze.
"I'll make out the bill now. And any extras can be paid for on departure."
Ella nodded.
She pulled out her wallet and counted out the money and handed it over and after signing the registration card she collected her key and made her way to the lifts. Roman was handed his key and followed.
She pressed the button and the lift soon took them to their floor. She led him to his room.
"I'll meet you in the bar later." She told him and pressed a kiss to his lips before turning and walking away.
He groaned and shut the door.
"Great." He muttered followed by some severe swearing.
He threw his bag on the bed and sat down next to it he didn't see a door opening next to the bed.
"Has anyone ever told you that you sulk too much Roman Harris." She asked him.
He looked up at the sound of her voice.
"You got a suite?" he said quickly.
She grinned.
"As soon as you said you wanted to come I upgraded the room and got connecting ones. This way I can sort my accounts out without too much hassle." She paused. "But it meant that I couldn't use either of my credit cards. Oh, and it was kinda fun watching you panic when you thought you would have to sleep alone."
He chuckled.
"So we are going to have kinky sex all night." He grinned.
She shook her head at him.
He walked over to her and kissed her slowly his arms going around her.
"I'm here to work Roman." She told him when they parted.
He nodded and grinned at her going over to his bag and pulling out a book of suduko puzzles and a pen before reaching for the book he'd brought with him to read.
She looked at the title and laughed.
"The life and times of Lord Byron?" she questioned.
He nodded.
"I don't know why but the title leapt out at me." He confessed with a crooked grin.
She laughed and went over to him.
"You idiot." She muttered.
He kissed her again before she turned and walked into the other bedroom. She moved to the desk and set up her laptop and checked her camera as a knock at the door sounded. She moved to open it and Yannis walked in. She gave the other man a hug.
"Hey Roman." Yannis called to him seeing him sitting in a chair. "Now I have the equipment you wanted and I put in a few extra lamps. The forecast is cloudy and overcast for the next two days." He told her.
She nodded.
"I noticed that. It means they will want the pictures touched up so it is sunny as Heck." She muttered.
"I've also got your schedule here. And a very important email." He said to her with a flourish. "It seems that as you now accepting just the one shoot a month it is making you very hot property."
"Yannis." She said warningly and ignored Roman smirking in the corner.
"Calvin Klein want you to do their shoot." He told her.
She grinned.
"No." she said to Yannis. "It won't fit into the schedule."
He did a double take.
"Did you not hear me Calvin Klein? Er… Hello?" he said to her.
She shook her head.
"Calm down Mister. We are fully booked. They will want it like yesterday. I've already told them that I won't do it."
"Liz darling. You can't do this to me." He said.
He flashed her calendar at her and she grabbed hold of his hand to keep it still pulling him over to sit at the desk. She looked at Roman who had to vacate the chair he was in and move to lie on the bed. He sighed contentedly as he lay down and she glared at him.
"Now look Yannis. See one shoot a month." She pointed out the bookings for the next 6 months.
He looked.
"I know this Liz but you can fit one more in. They want to do it in the city. It will be a commute for you not even an overnight trip."
"I swear you are more excited than me." She grinned. "Let me look at the dates." She checked her calendar and after a few minutes she grinned at him. "Fine I'll do it. Usual email, fee to go to my favourite charity please."
Yannis nodded taking a few notes.
"Now what else have we got coming up?" she asked him.
He pulled up the emails on her laptop and they went through them. She grinned as she looked at a few of them.
"Right new email." She said. "We'll call it the usual 2."
Yannis looked at her.
"I'm far too busy to take the commitment but I recommend you as a suitable substitute. Your qualifications are. Etc. Your published credits etc. We work out of the same studio so I vouch for your work."
"Liz are you sure?" he asked her.
She nodded.
"It's time don't you think. You have the talent Yannis. Get out there and show them." she grinned at him.
"So these four get the usual far too busy one." She waited while Yannis flagged up the emails and annotated them.
"And these 6 get the Usual 2 email." She told him.
He looked at them.
"Really?" he asked again.
"Don't get your hopes up though they may go with someone else, but yeah really." She chuckled.
He flagged them up and annotated them.
"The others should fit into the schedule." She nodded at his look.
"Ok I'll go do that now. Are we meeting for dinner?" he asked casting a look at Roman.
"Yes." She said. "About 8 in the restaurant."
Yanis nodded and walked to the door and opened it walking out quickly.
"Now that was fun." Roman commented.
She turned and looked at him.
"Fee to my usual charity?" He asked her.
She paled.
"It's for victims of landmines. Helping them rebuild their lives." She said softly.
He stood quickly and walked over to her.
"El." He said softly.
She grinned at him and reached up to put her arms around him and kissed him.
"Its ok." she told him.
He nodded.
"You are special." He said to her.
"Uh huh. Go finish reading your book." She muttered "I need to check through the rest of these emails."
She turned and sat on the chair and pulled up a folder and began answering some of the emails she had dragged into a folder. She laughed as she read one of them and he found himself being jealous but dismissed it as he fetched his things from the other bedroom. He lay back on the bed and opened his book and started reading.
He looked up when he saw her power down the laptop a while later.
"All done?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Harry sends his best." She told him.
He grinned.
"I hope you said hello from me too." He said and saw her nod.
He put his book to one side and held out his hand to her and she went over to lie on the bed next to him.
She kissed him.
"That was nice." he told her.
She chuckled.
"Only nice?" she asked.
He grinned and nodded.
She reached up and stroked his face before stroking his neck and the small area exposed by his shirt. She ran her hands down his arms next before putting them slowly around him and kissing him again. Her lips firm on his. She felt him moan slightly as she was kissing him. His hands found her waist and he pushed up her top and started caressing her.
"Hey." She pulled away from him. "How about taking it slow?" she asked.
He grinned.
"I can do slow but we are meeting Yaniis at 8 and if we have to share the shower because we are running late that will mean more sex because you can't keep your hands off me." He told her. "So then we'll be all flushed and rushing and Yannis will know what we have been doing and you'll giggle and I'll get turned on and we'll have to find somewhere to have sex again."
She looked at him.
"Maybe I have more self control than you." She said to him
"Oh, I know you do, but I also know I'm wearing that aftershave you like and I can kiss you like this." He said demonstrating.
She moaned as he devastated her lips in a passionate display.
"So would you like to take it slow?" he asked her.
She nodded and he responded with a groan.
He pulled away from her and went over to his bag and pulled out his wash kit and opened it.
He looked through the various sections.
"Have you forgot your razor again?" she asked him with a grin.
"Not my razor." He confessed.
"No." she said sitting up.
He nodded.
"Seriously?" she muttered.
He nodded.
"Well go get some."
"I don't suppose you …" he trailed off when he saw her shake her head.
"I can just see the look on you face if I pulled out a box of condoms from my camera bag."
He did a double take and grinned.
"Yeah, that would be funny." He conceded. "Up until the point where I kill you."
"Yeah that's about what I was thinking too." She moved over to her bag and pulled out her organiser.
"How is that going to help us?" he asked.
She glared at him.
"Have you never heard of a safe time?" she asked.
"I'm not risking it." he folded his arms across his chest.
She ignored him and carried on looking into the organiser before closing it and walking away from him into the bathroom. He heard the shower come on and the thought of her naked in the shower, water streaming down her body her hands roaming over her skin re-ignited his ardour and he grinned as he followed her.
"So?" he said.
She nodded.
"It's safe but if you don't want to risk it then.." she stopped talking as he took off his clothes and climbed into the shower with her.
"I love you." He told her.
She put her arms around him.
He lifted her up and thrust into her feeling her legs wrap around him.
"Hey. What happened to foreplay?" she asked.
He grinned.
"This is foreplay. Just wait until I get you on the bed." He promised.