She isn’t going to have to wait anymore.
I figure for the past year she’s been up to her eyeballs in responsibility, in having to deal with her sister, stepfather, the lot. So, tonight, I’m taking it all away.
I hear the elevator beep and watch as she steps off, her hips swaying with every step that she takes.
When she pauses at the edge of the room, she takes in how alone we are. Arms folded, I wait.
“I got the document you wanted,” Faye says, coming into the room.
“Good.”
She doesn’t make a move, and I watch her. She holds onto the envelope.
Silence fills the space between us.
“Take off your clothes.”
“Chase.”
“That night—consider every single time we’re alone, the same rules apply. I won’t take no for an answer. You want this. I can see it in your eyes, but you want to fight these feelings and you know what? That’s okay. I can handle that. But I won’t have you push me away because you don’t think this is appropriate.”
“It’s not.”
“Why?”
“You’re my boss.”
months ago, I was the answer to all of your prayers.” I stand
doesn’t back away. With the next step I take, she stays
wanted to.” Another step. I’m nearly in
hands on either side of her head, I trap
“It was one night.”
I’m calling in an
me again. She’s fighting this, and I
to pull out the big guns. “Let’s get something straight, either you
“What?”
even make a decision right now as to what you want. That girl runs rings around you, playing on
know anything
the past week I’ve seen it. She doesn’t exactly hide it, and you don’t
going to
absolutely no intention of reporting her or of having Kerry taken from her. That girl does run rings around Faye and uses her guilt of what happened to
misplaced. I know everything. How she’d been in college when she discovered the extent of the
not about to
do you want?”
fire in her
“It’s simple.”
me what you want,
baby, give me
“I want you.”
“I’m right here.”
“Take off your clothes.”
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