I waited for the hammer to drop. For him to shoo me off to distract Jayden, probably the only thing he thought I was good for.
Dmitri nodded at the ledger. “Why don’t you go through that and see if anything looks off.”
My mouth dropped open and I just stared at him for a moment, waiting for the punch line. When it didn’t come I said tentatively, “What should I be looking for?”
As he listed off examples I steadfastly engrained each and every detail, refusing to give him a reason for why I wasn’t equipped to handle this. When he left me alone to begin the work, I realized two things:
He was actually taking me seriously.
And I was absolutely certain I’d never understand this man.
Chapter twenty
Dmitri
Distracting.
That’s the only word I could use to describe the woman who had gotten under my skin and into my thoughts. Alisa wasn’t even in the fucking room with me. Probably going through the numbers in the ledger while curling up in a stiff chair-
Like I said, distracting.
And I couldn’t afford to be distracted, not when my instinct was telling me there was something off about all of this.
After Jayden gave me a tour of his operations that was obviously rehearsed to show thatnothingwas amiss, I was finally back in the room with the object of my distractions.
While she excitedly bounced up on her toes while explaining something she’d found inside the ledger, I kept myself from slamming her down on the desk and making her toes curl for an entirely different reason.
When I remained silent, her bouncing stopped, and the enthusiasm withered off her.
“What?” I said, forcing myself to stop imagining the exact hue of her cheeks when she came on my cock.
Alisa’s shoulders tightened, and she set the ledger down. “Forget it. I don’t even know what I’m doing.”
“I’m pretty sure anybody who's never seen a ledger before today would have absolutely no idea what they are doing,” I said, but I frowned when I noticed her eyes were glued to the ground. “You’re doing fine, just repeat what you said before.”
Her enthusiasm was gone as she launched into a hesitant explanation about some unusual numbers she’d come across. She didn’t completely understand why they seemed off.
Before I could say a single word, she cut in that it was probably wrong and a stupid idea.
“It’s not stupid,” I said, glancing at the page she’d mentioned. If I’d gone through the numbers, the same thing likely would’ve caught my attention. “Good job.”
She lit up with a smile that encompassed her entire face.
I’d bet my favorite sports car that this girl had a praise kink. And I wanted to tease out each and every one of this girl’s kinks and fantasies.
Fuck, I’d never cared what a girl’s fantasies were beyond the moment I was fucking them. Let alone a girl who I’d never even touched. This girl was fucking with my mind.
A knock sounded at the door, and the tension seemed to reignite within her. I wanted to amplify her body’s tension and watch her release it.
Over and over again.
Instead, I just watched as she launched herself towards the door. I had to remind myself that I’d promised myself that I’d let her come to me.
As painful as that was becoming.
Jayden’s slimy smile broadened when he locked eyes with Alisa’s chest. Alisa’s shoulders became so rigid that if someone put a rock between her shoulder blades, it’d split in half.
Well, at least it was obvious that Jayden wouldn’t be fulfilling any of her repressed fantasies. Probably the inverse, if the irritated expression she was trying to keep off her face was any indication.
