We broke apart and I gasped for breath.I had forgotten to breathe the whole time his mouth was on mine.Just completely forgotten.Like I couldn’t even remember how to be a functioning human with his scent all over me and his body burning holes in mine wherever we touched.
“Shit,” Olly muttered as he stroked the side of my face.
I burst out into a hysterical laugh.“That’s what you say after you kiss me for the first – well, second time?”
“Yes,” Olly muttered.“Because this shouldn’t happen.I tried not to let it happen.”
His words only made my heart pound harder in my chest.I slipped my hands down to his hips and pushed myself closer against him so he could feel it.“So, you wanted this?I mean, not just today?”
“The whole time,” he said.His eyes flashed with possessive fury at the reminder of how much he had been holding himself back.“Every day.”
Making me move my desk into his room where I was under his view all day and every day.
Telling me to stay late and come in early to match his hours.
Taking me to dinner with Caleb Coleman.Making me part of theinner circle.
All of it – because he had been feeling the same way I had?
“Me, too,” I whispered.
He took a deep breath, shuddering lightly.“You’re sure you want this?”
“Yes,” I said immediately.I hesitated in retrospect.“Are you going to fire me, after all?”
“No,” he said.It wasn’t even a thought for him.I could tell by how quickly he answered.“But this will change things.Blur the line between work and personal life.”
“Not for them,” I said, nodding my head in the direction of the door.“I know you don’t want that.You’ll still be Mr.Harvey in front of them.I can keep it professional when I need to.”
He took another deep breath.It was like he was holding himself back from something with great effort.He didn’t try to let go or push me away.“Are you sure you want to?That this won’t complicate things too much for you?”
I reached up and answered him the best way I knew how.I pulled him down towards me, wrapping my hand around the back of his neck so I could reach his lips and kiss him again.The short hairs at the base of his skull tickled my fingers.He growled low in his throat, a sound of such need and desperation that it sent lightning bolts to the bottom of my stomach.I was hard, and I couldn’t help it – I pushed myself up against him, letting him feel it, letting him know what he was doing to me and how much I didn’t want him to stop.
“Christ,” he muttered when we broke for air again.He rested his forehead against mine momentarily.“You’re a minx.”
I wiggled my hips for good measure and laughed at the groan that burst from his throat.“I’myourminx.”
His eyes heated even more as they locked with mine.“Don’t you dare say that again.”
I tilted my head.“I can’t say that I’m your minx?”
“Don’t say you’re my anything,” he said, pushing me to arm’s length with a groan.“Not until the end of the working day.”His hands lingered on my shoulders as if he still couldn’t force himself to let go.
“Do you need me to schedule this in for you?”I teased him.“I’m in charge of your calendar, after all.I can put it in wherever you want.”
The phraseput it indid exactly what I had wanted – made him roll his eyes and then his shoulders as if he was an athlete getting ready for a big game, trying to throw off the distraction of his opponents.“Fuck,” he muttered under his breath.“The door’s not even locked.”
I grinned, ready to give him another sound bite that he might not forget for a while – but I was interrupted before I had even finished opening my mouth.Both he and I whipped our heads around to the source of the noise: my phone, ringing on my desk.
“Answer it,” he said, releasing his grip on my shoulders as if relieved to have been released from the magic spell that was binding us in place.
I chuckled and walked over, grabbing it off my desk.I sat down, giving him an appreciative once-over as I did that made him shudder.It was Clara’s name on my caller ID, but he had told me to answer it.Even if it was a personal call during working hours, I had the feeling that wasn’t going to bother him.
“Hey, Clar,” I said, answering the call and unable to take the smile out of my voice.I saw him sit down behind his own desk from the corner of my eye.“What’s up?”
“Keat,” she said, and the absolute misery in the way she said my name made everything else drop away abruptly.
“What is it?”I asked again, more urgently this time.
