I couldn’t answer. I was too consumed by him and a kiss that was rewriting all the ones that came before it.
“Tell me…” He warned again, massaging my swollen clit with his thumb. “Tell me right now.”
Before I could even nod, he tore away, leaving me bereft.
Panting, we both stared at each other under the harsh lights.
He lifted his fingers to his mouth and slowly licked them one by one.
“Doesn’t taste like you hate me at all…” he said. “Am I mistaken?”
I was too on edge to speak.
He straightened his tie as if nothing happened. Then he smoothed the front of my dress.
“Since you ghosted me for most of today,” he said, his voice low, “I’ll see you at three a.m. tomorrow. Clear?”
My lips moved but no words came out.
“Good.” He looked like he wanted to say more, but he walked away.
FOURTEEN
HARRISON
Maybe Aaron was right about firing this woman after all…
I walked into headquarters the following morning with Andrea still on my mind, with the taste of her lips still leaving me wanting more.
I’d spent the past couple of hours mentally revisiting our kiss in the cafe—hating that I had to stop before things went any further. And now I was behind on tasks because of her.
Shit.
“Morning.” I greeted the guard at the door.
“Welcome back, Mr. Cross,” he said. “Did you have a good night’s sleep?”
“You know better than to ask me that, Eric. I haven’t slept in all the years you’ve been at my companies.”
“I’m holding out hope that it’ll change one day.”
“Don’t bet on it.” I stood next to him. “Tell me what you’ve been hearing from the employees.”
“They hate you.”
That’s obvious.“Anything useful?”
“Marketing department is working on a joint resignation letter,” he said. “They’re going to post it inThe New York Timesat the end of the month.”
So, they think…
“The lower-level employees are icing out Miss Stone,” he continued, “and they’re planning to submit a bunch of complaints to HR ahead of her official re-interview with you.”
“Why would they do something like that?”
“I’ll keep listening.” He shrugged. “The executives seem to still like her, though. She still slips away to help them with things whenever she can.”
“So she’s been finding ways to steal time from me by doing other things…”
