I glared at me. “Take it, or you’re fired.”
Don’t let him win. Never let him win again.“I’ll be eagerly awaiting your email.”
“You fucking better be. You’re dismissed.”
It didn’t take him thirty minutes to send me that email, and I had to scroll through the damn thing to completely view the list of busy work he had me doing today. And of course, the deadline for all of this shit to be on his desk was tomorrow morning. But I knuckled down and kept telling myself that overtime was time and a half with his company, so I’d have a great little nest egg after four paychecks’ worth of this shit.
Little did I know how much it would take out of me.
“You’re pathetic, you know that?”
JoJo’s voice startled me awake, and I realized I had fallen asleep at my desk. “What time is it?”
He comes into my office and closes the door. “It’s eight, which is apparently way past your sorry excuse for a bedtime.”
I ignored his tone of voice and wiped at the drool on my cheek. “Just needed a quick nap. I’m going to go get some coffee and get back to--.”
He leaned against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. “Have you always been this much of a failure?”
I blinked. “Sorry, come again?”
He scoffed. “Falling asleep at your desk. Subpar reports for my board meeting. How the hell did you get hired here anyway?”
I blinked back tears as I turned toward my desktop computer. “What I lack in rapport with you I apparently make up in qualifications.”
“So, that’s your excuse for being too weak to hold yourself together long enough to do your damn job?”
I peeked down at the time in the corner of the screen. “Technically, it’s three hours past my damn job, but here I am anyway.”
He stormed toward my desk. “Listen here, you little--.”
I looked up at him with the calmest face I could muster. “Don’t you have anything better to do with your evenings than harassing an employee who’s only doing what you’ve asked of her?”
He narrowed his eyes. “What makes you think I have a choice?”
“So, you are as lonely as you seem. Got it.”
But his growling voice held my attention as he pressed his hands into my desk and lowered his gaze to my own. “Listen up because I’m only going to say this once: the only reason why you got hired here is because I left someone else in charge of the new hire while I was on a fucking business trip. So, you’ve got one shot to make this work. One shot to show me that you’re not the waste of space you were back in high school.”
His hot breath battered against my face as his face came closer to my own, and his cologne smelled so good that it stopped me in my tracks.
“So, stay the fuck awake long enough to do the basics of your job, otherwise you won’t be employable anywhere. Got it?”
My tits puckered against my bra as I quickly nodded my head. “Got it.”
“Got it, what?”
I swallowed hard. “Got it, sir.”
He smirked. “Good. Maybe I’ll still make a loyal employee out of you yet.”
And as he turned on his heels, exiting my office the same way he entered, I flopped against my leather office chair and let out the breath I had been holding.
While my thighs clenched together to seek out a needed dose of friction that had come out of nowhere.
I’m disgusting for even thinking about it.
And yet, as my eyes traveled to his pert ass before he slammed the door closed behind me, the only thing that ran through my mind was his hand wrapped around my throat before I imagined what it might have been like to feel his angry lips against my own.
