Free Alex Reid (Rich & Single #1) by Lexy Timms Page A

himself up on one elbow and watched them dress.
    “In a hurry?”
    “Our flight leaves in three hours. We’ve still got to get back to the airport and go through international security, and no way am I missing it like we did the last time we tried to fly out of the country,” Amanda answered.
    “Not that we wouldn’t mind staying here for a week again,” Danni said, smiling at him as she ran a brush through her hair. “Even if you’re never home. But we’ve planning this trip for way too long to get derailed on it.”
    The last time, Alex remembered, they had missed their flight for reasons entirely unrelated to him. But he’d invited them to come stay for a while instead of hanging around at the airport for the next one. A day had turned into three. Then a week. When he’d finally sent them home, they’d spent the vacation time they’d intended to spend very much elsewhere in his mansion. Mostly the bedroom.
    “I have to get up for work anyway,” Alex said, flipping the blankets back and rising from the bed despite his body’s protest that he hadn’t had enough sleep. He often went without enough sleep for business reasons. At least the culprit of this fatigue was something much more pleasant. “I’ve got meetings all day.”
    “See what I mean about you never being home?”
    He had, he remembered, the meeting with the trainer – Parker – about the gym. Among other things.
    “A CEO’s work is never done.”
    “I thought that was a mother’s work?”
    “Mother. CEO. Sometimes I’m not sure I’m not raising this company the same way someone else might raise a child.”
    Both girls laughed.
    “Is it really that bad?” Danni asked.
    Alex turned to look at her for a moment, and then he shook his head. “No. It’s not that bad. Honestly? It’s not bad at all. There are a lot of people who would be thrilled to have a job where they’re making the kind of money I’m making. I’m my own boss. I get the satisfaction of knowing that I brought something as successful as Reid Enterprises into the world…” He smiled. “No. It’s not bad.”
    “That was actually kind of impressive,” Amanda said. “I mean, that ability to pull an uplifting speech completely out of your ass like that.”
    “It’s why I make the big bucks.”
    He was dressed and in the kitchen, pouring a cup of coffee, by the time the girls came down with their hair done and their makeup on. Alex looked up as they entered.
    “I’ve already called the taxi to take you to the airport. It should be here any minute now.” He nodded to the coffee machine. “Would you like a cup?”
    “I think we’ll just grab Starbucks at the airport,” Amanda said. “But thanks anyway. And thanks for the taxi, too.”
    “And for the spectacular night,” Danni added.
    “Oh, believe me. It was my pleasure.”
    They giggled.
    “We could tell,” Amanda said, giving him a look that was an invitation he would have thoroughly taken advantage of if she hadn’t been in a rush for the airport and he hadn’t been ready to walk out the door for work.
    He glanced down at his phone where it sat on the counter, checking the time, and finished the last of his coffee in two long swallows.
    “I have to get going. You two are welcome to any food you find in the fridge if you want something to eat. There’s—”
    The taxi honking outside cut him off, and he grinned. He hadn’t heard the gate open, but that wasn’t unexpected.
    “Or you can go get in the taxi.”
    He walked to the door with them and opened it to let them out. Both women paused to give him a tight hug before they stepped through. Alex allowed it, even wrapping an arm around them in return. Both hugs, unsurprisingly, turned into kisses that weren’t exactly chaste. When they pulled back, all three of them were breathing a little faster.
    “Enjoy your trip. You’ll have to come back and tell me all about it when you’re stateside again.”
    “We will,” Amanda said.
    They turned