“No, I can imagine that you don’t.” She scanned the office, the shelves of awards, the accreditations, and the door to the waiting room where his clients awaited their appointments. “But what do you think will happen when this recording goes viral, I mean think about all those people thinking they have an upstanding lawyer representing their best interests ... what do you thinktheywill do? What do you think the barwill do?”
“Enough!” James shot up from his desk. “You bitch, you’re one hell of a nasty piece of work!”
“Takes one, to know one,” Emma said calmly, rising to her feet. I followed suit, eager to hightail it out of there as soon as possible.
“Was it worth it?” he snapped, pinning me with the ferocity of his gaze. “Defiling yourself in order to blackmail me?”
I fixed my sights on him, determined not to let him see how terrified I truly was. “I don’t see what we shared as defiling me as such,” I said, my tone casually reflective. “It was more a means to an end ... and I think we all enjoyed it, don’t you?”
My words shook the bluster out of him as his color heightened at the memories they evoked, his hand shifting distractedly to adjust his crotch.
“Look, James, we’re not doing anything wrong,” Emma said, her tone softening as she tried to calm the situation. “Abi just wants what she is entitled to. Surely you can understand that?”
James looked to Emma and then to the disk on the desk.
“Please, James,” I said, taking Emma’s lead and trying to coax him down the right path now that he understood the gravity of the situation he was in. “It’s not you we want to hurt. In fact, we don’t even want to hurt Dad. I just want what is rightfully mine. No more.”
He raised his eyes to me, and combed his fingers through his hair, a gust of air passing noisily through his gritted teeth. “Fine.”
“Fine?” I pushed tentatively.
“I will get you what you want.”
He held my gaze for moment, his thoughts his own, but then he bent forward and buzzed his receptionist. “Julia, can you come in here a second?”
No sooner than he’d released the button, she swept into the room and I watched with growing relief as he issued her with a list of files to copy.
This was really happening, we were getting the info we needed, the biggest hurdle had been overcome.
As Julia left to carry out his request, he walked around his desk to join us.
“I’d appreciate it if you stayed in here to wait for the copies,” he said, his eyes flitting to the waiting room and making his reasoning clear. “She won’t be long.”
“What is it, James?” Emma said sweetly, stepping toward him. “You wanting a repeat affair? Inyouroffice ofallplaces?”
He quickly backed away, a look of panic on his face. “Hell no, I’m going to get some air,” he said, his hand on the door handle already, his other adjusting his persistently defiant crotch. “You two should be gone before I get back.”
And then he fled, the door closing loudly behind him.
I turned to Emma, a smile playing about my lips as the buzz of relief coupled with amusement gave me a heady high. “That was cruel.”
“But effective,” she said giving me a dazzling smile in return, “he truly is ruled by his dick.”
“He isn’t the only one.” The words sprang from my lips as I took in the vision of womanly perfection before me, the spark igniting in my belly as my body swiftly began to demand its next “Emma” dose, and I smiled sheepishly as I added, “If one actually had a dick that is.”
“True, I confess, where you are concerned I fare no better.”
I looked to her in surprise. “I was talking about me...”
She stepped toward me slowly, her eyes dropping to my mouth, the desire now burning in her gaze holding me prisoner. “And I meant me.”
I stopped breathing as I waited on her touch, my skin so sensitized that even the slip of her hand into my hair coaxed a moan from my lips.
“So beautiful...” she said softly, as she brought me toward her, her lips brushing mine with a tenderness that completely belied the fire quickly burning out of control within me.
“We shouldn’t, not here,” I whispered, even as my mouth parted, her tongue coaxing my own into the sweet cavern of her mouth.
She made a small sound of protest and smiled against my mouth, her forehead coming to rest against mine. “I know, but like I told you, you are impossible to resist.”
