His eyes never left my chest.
God, it would've been so easy to pluck this low-hanging fruit.
And like I said—cover of a ladies’ porn magazine hot.
I pictured his abs hardened and bronzed under that shirt, and when he leaned forward and rested his forehead on mine, finally closing his eyes, I didn’t back away.
"Sir…" I said hesitantly, but he didn't respond. "Asher," I said more forcefully as he pulled me against his body.
All I could think was how this was too easy.
He was too drunk.
I felt too guilty.
He reeked of whiskey, but the cologne was intoxicating.
And wow, the way he made my body feel alive.
If only he were sober.
And if only I hadn't left my phone in my purse in the HR office.
I couldn’t even record this if I wanted to, and I couldn’t ruin this shot.
Clayton already paid me half of the million dollars.
Screwing up now meant getting fired.
Bad idea.
"Asher, it's my first day… This is a bad idea…" The nurturing part of me took over. I knew I couldn't do the job today because I would never live with myself if I did it like this. "I think we should stop."
"Stop," he whispered, and he backed me one step closer to his desk. His chair pressed into my calves, and I inadvertently tipped my chin upward.
His lips were so close to mine, I could kiss him.
I could literally taste the whiskey on his breath, he was so close.
And then someone knocked on the door and snapped the tension.
I backed away quickly, pulling the rolling chair between us as Asher started to sink.
The door swung open to reveal Penny breezing in while looking down at a file in her hand, and I scurried to the printer that had long since stopped printing the corrected press release.
While Asher, still drunk as a skunk in summer, dropped to his chair and covered his face.
The blazing heat on my cheeks made me feel like hiding so I kept my back to her as she talked to him, and I realized this job wasn't at all what I thought.
I wasn't cut out for this.
The guilt was going to consume me, and I wanted out.
Asher needed help, not a scandal.
And I already took half of the money.
Worse yet, Penny was nurturing him and mothering him like a sick child.
