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Chapter Fifteen
Harrison’s eyesflew open when he realized he was alone in bed. The coldness crept into his heart as he listened for sounds of her moving in the apartment. Not that they had talked about the morning over the course of the previous afternoon and evening, but she didn’t have a car at his place.
A smile curved his lips as he let his mind drift back to the day before. She had been so right about him dating the wrong women—they were nothing compared to Sera Lovely.
Sera had him tied down and naked when she demanded that he never, ever call her Seraphina again. At that point, he would have happily agreed to anything she asked of him, and not because he was tied up and helpless, but because she asked with her constant smile and bright blue eyes. Then she had taken him in her mouth, making him fight against his restraints so he could touch her.
Groaning at the images that flashed through his mind when he was finally free, he wondered again where she could be. He needed her desperately. Again.
His eyes were adjusting to the darkness when she walked naked into the room with her phone to her ear, half her face glowing from the light. If she was talking, it was too quiet to hear because he heard nothing before she pulled the phone from her ear and sat on the bed.
“I have to go. Agatha is picking me up.” She shut the phone off, sending the room into total darkness again, and tossed it on the bed as she spoke.
“I can take you home, Sera.” He ran his fingers down her smooth, bare back.
“No need. Agatha just got off work and will swing by and pick me up.”
“Was Agatha at the party yesterday?” he asked, realizing a lot had happened since he had first seen her the day before at the party. He didn’t even know if the wedding was canceled because of the kiss.
“Yep. Black hair, no smile.” What she had left out was that Agatha was also judgmental and seemed to already hate Harrison.
“Let me take you home later.” He pulled her back onto the bed, making her laugh.
“Not today, Harrison.” Her hand cupped his cheek, and then she climbed out of bed. “I have things I need to get done before work starts again.”
“That should be fun.” He stated, watching her put on her panties and black slacks again. For a few minutes longer, he got to enjoy her breasts while she searched for her bra. After giving up, she just pulled on the white shirt she had been wearing at the party the day before and started to button it up. From across the room, it looked dry. Wrinkled, but dry.
“It’ll be okay. I should have done them yesterday. Laundry is going to take all day now, but Harper needed help.” She shrugged.
“And then I didn’t let you leave the rest of the day.”
“Yes, I spent the rest of the day with you,” she admitted.
“Can I call you?” He climbed out of bed and took her in his arms.
Just being able to touch her felt right, like she was the thing that had been missing in his life until today. It was as if he’d started seeing the world as a different place when she was near him, touching him. He couldn’t believe he had missed this feeling in all the years he had known her.
“I don’t know why you would want to, Harrison. This was a one-time thing, right?” She pulled out of his arms and looked at her phone for a moment. Her words were nothing but dismissing.
“One time?” He looked at her in disbelief. He didn’t want to stop until he’d had his fill and was starting to think that that would never happen. Right now, he couldn’t even remember how many times they had sex the night before, but each time had been better than the last.
“We just let our hormones get the best of us. We can’t have a relationship.”
“Why not?”
“We work together, and I’m overseeing your harassment claim and all it entails.” She took a step away from him.
Was she actually talking about this while he was naked? Like anything that had happened between them in the last twenty-four hours had anything to do with work or that claim.
“Agatha’s here. I had a good time.” Her phone buzzed in her hand as she talked as if they had just met. That it had been a hookup, a fling. Nothing more than a few hours of fun.
“Yeah, see you around.”
Harrison was hurt and stayed in the bedroom, unable to watch her walk away from him. This was not how he expected the morning to go. He had expected her to stay in his bed all day today also. Instead, she had dismissed him from her life.
Hearing the door shut as she left his apartment, he fumed at the woman. Had she not felt what he had felt touching her the day before? Was he alone in his reaction to her? Did she not feel the pull to be together? The moment he had taken her hand, everything had changed. Yes, he had been attracted to her before that, but when he touched her, the attraction bloomed, exploded.
Looking back on it, he didn’t even know how they had gotten into the apartment. All he had seen was her. All he wanted to see was her.
And she’d felt nothing?
