Chapter 55

• Since he became king five years ago and after all the meetings he has attended, this was the first time Lance genuinely wanted the meeting to end, he had not anticipated a call from the US president and he couldn’t just say no when he had been the one to ask to speak to him. He didn’t expect the response to his request to come so early, but here he was listening to an older man who was speaking too fast for Lance to keep up with while his mind was somewhere else, at least, the call is being recorded and he would go over them again because he wasn’t listening half of the time, his mind was still at the emerald house where he had left Sophie, if the damn call didn’t come in, they would have been naked and tangled up in bed by now. He couldn’t believe how fast things changed between them, all he had wanted to do was kiss her, just kiss her to check if he was really attracted to her and the moment he kissed her, had a taste of her lips, he became addicted really fast. It was as if he got a revelation.
• Lance shook his head and tried to concentrate on what the older male was saying but it was worthless trying because he just couldn’t focus. Especially since the man was just bragging and barely saying anything of interest. He would rather be tangled up in bed with Sophie than this. He knew Patrick would go crazy if he found out what had happened between them. He half expected Patrick to be in his room when he walked in earlier but he was not there and when he called him, he told him he had driven somewhere and would be back soon, he was currently seated in the throne room with him and listening to what the president of the United States was saying.
• Even though he wanted the meeting to end soon, it took over five hours, and by the time he bid goodbye to the president, he was ready to call it a day, it was his off day yet he still worked till evening.