Chapter 24
ZACH
I’m struggling to stay sane.
You did it for her.
All you wanted was some pussy.
That’s what my brothers will say, if they find out what’s happened between me and Maya, but I don’t care about that anymore, because this is no longer one sided.Our feelings have rekindled and they’re impossible to resist, although it makes it difficult for me to concentrate at work.I only have to look out of my office, and I see her.
Most times, I catch her staring at me, and then she quickly looks away.If we’re not careful, someone is going to get suspicious.
One evening, we leave the office at the same time.It’s purely coincidental, but it’s just me and Maya.My heart is beating too fast.We step into the elevator and find another person in it.The doors shut, and we suffer in silence, want restrained by civil etiquette.Standing behind the head of accounting, our fingers intertwine.I look straight ahead, and from my periphery I see Maya does the same.The air turns thick and loaded, like my thoughts, like my cock.
A low hum, a vibration, thrums between us.I feel her beside me.Impossible to ignore.Impossible to resist.The elevator doors slide open, and I sigh with relief when our unwanted colleague leaves and no one else enters.
It’s just the two of us now, and we turn to each other, desire and awareness tangling together.It snaps; the self-control we’ve both been battling all day.Our bodies smack together, my one free arm slides around her waist, pulling her to me.Her fingers curl into my jacket, clinging like she’ll never let go.Our hungry mouths clash, tongues lashing, breaths coming thick and fast.Her mouth is warm and familiar, dangerous too, because it makes me forget where we are.Our kiss deepens, and my hardness presses into her with an unashamed urgency.
“Someone’s going to walk in,” she murmurs, her lips soft against mine.
“It’s a risk I’ll take.”
“It’s a risk that could get me fired.You’ll be fine.”
The realization knocks sense into me.“Then let’s not …” I smile into our kiss, breaths mingling.
She moans against me, and I wish we were in bed.In private.Alone.
“Come to dinner with me,” I beg.
She lifts her head.Blinks.“Yes.”There’s no hesitation.The certainty in her voice surprises me more than the kiss, but when I see the hunger in her eyes, I know she wants me as much as I want her.
The elevator doors open, and we quickly slap on a façade.Calm and professional on the surface, whipped by desire underneath, we leave, trying not to brush hands as we rush out, desperate to leave the Stella offices behind.
We end up at a small diner.It’s nothing fancy, and the kind of place where no one even looks up when we walk in.There’s no danger of Cecil and Katherine frequenting an establishment like this.We slide into a booth, facing one another, and close enough that our knees touch.
“Another dinner date?”I tease.
She looks at me happily, eyes dark.“Would you say this is our first date?”
I love her words, and I would say anything she asked me to.“The last one didn’t count because it wasn’t a date,” I remind her.“It was you agreeing to have dinner with me, hoping I’d stop pestering you.”
“Ah.That’s true,” she admits, sheepishly.
“And the takeout?What was that?”I ask.
“My way of saying ‘thank you’.”
“Why the change of heart?”I ask, watching her carefully.“You were so determined to keep things professional.”
Her smiling face turns serious.“I needed to keep our boundaries.”
This is what I don’t understand.We were parted so abruptly, never to see one another for so many years.I was over the moon to see her, and I still don’t understand why she wasn’t.“Why?”
Before she can answer, something soft and warm brushes between my legs, sliding up along my calf.Maya is smiling like a vixen.Her foot slides further up, slow and deliberate, and my cock twitches in sublime happiness.I let out a low, growl as her toes press closer, moving up and settling over the place where I’m already rock hard for her.
I try to slow down my breath, which hitches each time she strokes me through the fabric.Her eyes grow darker, and her mouth curves in a knowing smile.
