Page 46 of Adam’s Obsession

“I’m glad we did.”

“Mmm. Me too. What made you pick that chat site? Of all thechat sites on the internet?”

Katherine smiled. “Sara told me about it.”

Adam barked a laugh.

“What’s so funny?”

“I went there, just to check it out, because I heard Saratalking to Shannon about it.”

“Really? Just think. If things had turned out differently,you could be cuddling one of them right now.”

He tightened his arms around her. “I don’t want Sara orShannon. I want you.”

“Oh Adam.” She sighed. “What are we going to do when we getback?”

“What do you mean?”

She tried to push away but he wouldn’t let her. “We can’t dothis in the office.” She gestured to their twined, very naked bodies.

He shrugged and slipped a hand deftly between her legs.“Technically, we probably shouldn’t be doing this on a balcony.”

She smacked his muscled arm with an impotent fist. “Cut itout. I’m serious. My job means a lot to me. When this ends, it’ll be impossiblefor us to work together. To see each other every day. All day. My office facesyours, for heaven’s sake.”

“It’s not gonna end.” He nibbled on her neck.

“Everything ends,” she said. “Besides, in the meantime, Idon’t want to get fired because I’m screwing the boss.”

“That won’t happen.”

She sent him a dark look. “It’s happened before.”

He stilled. “What are you talking about?”

“Remember Dumbshit?”

“The pathetic one-timer? Yeah.”

Katherine shrugged. “We worked together. After our briefaffair—”

“Very brief affair.”

“After our very brief affair, he told everyone. It wasawful. I was the one who got hauled onto the carpet. I was theone who had to deal with the snide comments and the innuendos. Gettingroutinely passed over for prime projects. I was the one who had to eventuallyquit. I’m not letting that happen again. I’m not.”

“Nothing like that is going to happen.” A fierce frowncrossed his face. “If anyone would get in trouble over this, it’s me. Tristanand I have one steadfast rule and it’s—”

“Don’t fish in the company pond.”

He blinked. “How did you know about that?”

“Everyone knows.” She sighed. “There’s only one thing we cando.”

“What?” His frown grew darker. Clearly he didn’t like whereshe was going with this. But it was true. There was only one logical end tothis.

An end to this.

“We stop.” Her voice was soft but resolute.