Alana’s face flushed crimson, as delicate and vibrant as a red plum blossom against the snow.
“I like other places, too.”
Stephan was captivated by her words and couldn’t resist teasing her. “Which parts exactly? Tell me in detail.”
Stephan pouted playfully, “Stephan!”
This man couldn’t stay serious for even a second.
Stephan’s lips curved upward. “All right, I won’t tease you anymore.”.
“Do you want me to keep massaging you?”
“The full-body kind.”
Alana blushed. “Just don’t get any funny ideas,”
Stephan chuckled softly and pinched her delicate cheek.
“If I really wanted to be naughty, you wouldn’t be able to escape. After all, right now, it’s just the two of us in this room, a man and a woman alone together. How could you possibly escape?”
Alana scoffed.
Well, he had a point.
So she simply gave up, lay back down, and let the man continue his massage. As he massaged her, Alana gradually let herself go.
“Oh my, right there...that feels so good!”
“That feels so good!”
“Keep going, keep going!”
“Stephan, you’re so good!”
“Faster!”
“Harder there...”
Stephan couldn’t help but grit his teeth. “It’s the middle of the night...don’t moan so seductively!”
Alana blinked innocently. “Sorry, it feels so good, I just can’t help myself.”
“I’m about to lose control too.”
Alana froze. “What can’t you hold back?”
The next second, she felt a chill run down her body.
The man had actually yanked her nightgown off.
Wait, he just ambushed her out of nowhere!
The man’s powerful body pressed down on her as he said, with a straight face,
“Sweetheart, a massage is more comfortable when you’re naked.”
Alana’s mind went blank.
Oh no, she felt like she’d been set up!
Just as Stephan was about to make love to her, her phone suddenly rang.
“Wait, someone’s calling me. I’ll just take this call!”
Stephan leaned down to kiss her, his breath hot against her skin.
“Sweetheart, don’t worry about it. It’s definitely a prank call.”
Alana grew anxious. “What if it isn’t?”
“Stephan, control yourself a little. Don’t be so horny all the time!”
Stephan chuckled, “Don’t you think I know who’s making me so horny?”
Alana blushed, too embarrassed to say anything, and quickly grabbed her phone to glance at the caller ID.
“It’s my colleague Carla calling.”
She thought to herself, hadn’t Carla been asleep when she left?
And now she’s awake and suddenly calling her?
Stephan gave a half-smile. “Your colleague sure knows how to pick the right time to call.”
Alana cleared her throat and explained, “She must have woken up, realized I wasn’t there, and called to check on me.”
Stephan snorted with a laugh, rolled over, and got off her.
“Answer it. I’ll deal with you after you’re done.”
Alana quickly answered the call.
Carla spoke up, “Hello, Lana, where have you run off to again? Grace just called me a moment ago, saying we need to go to Manager Cole for a debriefing meeting. I was just about to wake you up, but I didn’t find you in bed.”
Alana didn’t feel comfortable admitting she was fooling around with her boyfriend. “Uh, I’m out for a walk.”
Hearing this, Carla was completely reassured. She yawned lazily. “Alright, hurry back. We’ll get ready and head over to him.”
“Okay, I’ll hang up now.” Alana hung up the phone, then looked at Stephan with an apologetic expression.
“Sorry, you heard it too...I have to go to a meeting, so I can’t stay and do that with you.”
Stephan gave a forced smile. “A meeting in the middle of the night? That little scoundrel, he did this on purpose, didn’t he?”
Come deliberately scheduled the meeting at this late hour to prevent him from having any meaningful time with Alana.
Looks like I didn’t beat him hard enough last night...that jerk hasn’t learned his lesson.
“Well, I’m not sure about that, but the boss said we had to have a meeting.
Everyone else is going, so I’d feel bad if I didn’t go.”
“I’ll ask you just one thing: when are you resigning?”
“I’ll resign as soon as I get back.”
Stephan snorted lightly, then reluctantly let her leave.
When Alana returned to Room 2011, Carla couldn’t help but remark.
“Lana, you have so much energy. It’s so late, and you actually went for a walk. Didn’t you walk enough today?”
As soon as Carla had returned to her hotel room, she was so exhausted her legs were giving out. She took a quick shower and went straight to bed.
Who would’ve thought Alana could actually sneak out for a walk? She’s got to be one tough cookie.
Alana gave an awkward smile, too embarrassed to admit she was in her boyfriend’s room for a secret massage date.
Alana and Carla went to Cole’s room. The door wasn’t closed, so they walked right in and found Grace and Danielle already there, sitting on the sofa with Cole.
Cole looked up and glanced at Alana and Carla.
“Come sit down.”
Alana and Carla didn’t hesitate; they quickly found seats and sat down.
Cole spoke up, “Let’s start today’s debrief.”
“Grace, you go first.”
One by one, they took turns sharing their insights, perspectives, and takeaways from the day.
Before they knew it, two hours had passed.
Everyone was nodding off.
But Cole wouldn’t let them go, so none of them could leave.
They had thought it would just be a simple debriefing meeting that would be over in half an hour, but they never expected it to take this long.
Moreover, he called out each person individually for criticism, posing questions far more pointed than usual, as if he were deliberately trying to trip them up.
Yet his questions were so spot-on that they couldn’t refute them; they could only accept them with grim faces.
By the time it ended, it was already 3 a.m.
Everyone was absolutely exhausted.
Carla went back to her room, muttered under her breath that Cole had gone off the deep end tonight, and then collapsed into bed.
Alana also wanted to lie down in her own bed and rest.
But thinking that a certain man might still be waiting for her, she sneaked over to his room on tiptoe.
She ran to his door and knocked. Sure enough, he hadn’t gone to sleep and came to open it quickly.
Seeing his tall, slender figure standing in the doorway, his deep eyes fixed intently on her, Alana instantly let down her guard, collapsing wearily into his arms and allowing herself to lean on him. “I’m so sleepy.”
“I’m both exhausted and sleepy.”
Stephan instinctively caught Alana, wrapping his arms tightly around her delicate, limp body to keep her from falling.
He lowered his gaze slightly and saw her eyes, reddened from exhaustion. He pursed his thin lips, then picked her up, closed the door, and turned to lay her down on the bed to rest.
He carefully tucked the blanket around her. After turning off the light, he lay down beside her, gently patting her back to lull her to sleep.
“If you’re sleepy, just go to sleep.”
Alana naturally nestled into his embrace, her eyelids drooping. “Stephan...”
“I...I actually have something very important to tell you...”
She hadn’t told him yet that Darla had come looking for her.
“Hmm, whatever it is, let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
“Rest is more important.”
Alana, half-asleep, closed her eyes.
“Alright, then... we’ll talk about it tomorrow.”
Alana slept soundly that night.
She didn’t know how much time had passed, but in her daze, she sensed the man holding her close suddenly let go.
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