“I’m sorry you couldn’t sleep. Was it because of me?”
I nod again, inhaling his scent and enjoying his body heat. He must be standing very close.
“Shay. I’m so sorry.”
“It’s okay.”
“It’s not. I don’t want to be the cause of your sleepless nights.”
“It wasn’t a bad thing. It was just that I woke up and remembered you called me baby the other night. You called me baby when you were taking care of me, just like you did that night at the hotel.”
There’s an electric pause before I open my eyes and look up at him. He’s inches away, gazing down at me with ravenous eyes, his hand on my hair, his lips parted. The pulse in the side of his neck throbs.
I flatten my hands on his chest and whisper, “I want you to call me that again but while you’re inside me.”
Because I’ve got my hands on his chest, I feel his reaction to my words. His heartbeat starts to gallop, and his abdominal muscles tense. He draws a sharp breath. He gathers my hair in his big hand and makes a fist around it.
That simple gesture gets me so hot, I almost moan out loud. I stare up at him with my pulse flying and my nipples hardening, begging him with my eyes to put his mouth on mine.
Eyes burning, he breathes, “What are you doing to me?”
“The same thing you’re doing to me. Please, Cole. Please kiss me. You can send me away after that. I promise I’ll go if you ask me to, but please just kiss me again before I lose my mind.”
His lids flutter. His voice turns gruff. “Stop begging. You’re fucking killing me.”
“Please.”
He closes his eyes and groans. I stand, slide my hands up his chest and wind my arms around his shoulders, then brush my lips over his with feather-light pressure. Against his mouth, I whisper, “Please.”
His voice turns guttural. “This is a dangerous game you’re playing.”
“It’s not a game.”
His erection is stiff against my hip. His breathing is erratic. I know he’s close to snapping and losing control of himself. He’s right on the razor’s edge of letting go and crushing his mouth to mine.
So to try to push him over, I lick his lips from one corner of his mouth to the other, the stroke of my tongue whisper soft. Then I ever so gently take his lower lip between my teeth and bite down.
He reacts so fast, I can’t comprehend how it happens.
In a whipcrack move, he turns me around and pushes me facedown onto his desk. I’m bent over the edge of it, my breasts flattened on his blotter, my bottom pressed against his crotch as he stands behind me.
With one hand on my hip and the other curled around the back of my neck, he leans over and speaks into my ear in a voice so hot and rough, it makes my legs shake.
“You don’t want me to lose control of myself, pretty girl. You don’t want me to let the monster off its leash. I played nice that night we spent at the hotel, but nice isn’t what I am. I keep telling you I’m not good, but you refuse to listen.”
I’m shaking with excitement. I can’t catch my breath. My panties are soaked, and he hasn’t even touched me yet. I think if he pinched one of my hard nipples, I’d spontaneously combust.
“You are good. You are.”
He growls in frustration. Yanking up my skirt, he spanks my ass several times in quick succession. The blows are sharp and stinging. Then he pulls my skirt down, hauls me off the desk, and leads me to the door with his hand around my upper arm.
He pulls the door open. He pushes me through it. I spin around and gape at him, my face hot, my pussy wet, my ass burning.
Without another word, he shuts the door in my face.
I flatten my shaking hands on the door, then rest my forehead against it, trying to catch my breath and calm the butterflies in my stomach.
My entire body sizzles with need. I might light this entire building on fire from how hot he made me.
After a few moments, I hear his gruff voice. “Don’t make me open this door again. Go.”
“So that’s it?”
“That’s it.”
“You get to decide unilaterally?”
“Yes.”
“And you think I’m just going to roll over and let you do that?”
“Yes.”
“I’m not giving up, Cole.”
“I’ll hire a new assistant if I have to.”
“No, you won’t.”
He doesn’t answer for so long, I think he must’ve walked away. But then I hear a heavy exhalation.