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After throwing on a clean tee and some grey sweatpants, he wrapped me in an oversized fluffy towel and lifted me into his lap. We sank into the patinated red leather couch as it gave an aged sigh.
‘Shh, just take your time. There’s no rush.’ Ewen’s long fingers stroked over my shoulder and neck like I was a pet to be soothed.
Admittedly, it felt nice.
I came.
I finally came after years of intermittent attempts and failures. How did he even manage to pull it from me?
My internal organs felt like someone had come along and jellified them. A sort of detachment to myself.
Eventually, my breathing settled, and my nerves calmed enough for me to pull myself from his grasp and slide onto the cushion beside him. His eyebrows creased as I wrapped the towel more firmly around me while creating space between us.
‘You shouldn’t have done that. You’re my boss,’ I said, my fingers tracing a red stripe on my thigh.
‘No. I’m Ruby’s boss.’
Fair point.
‘How did you know?’ I asked, as my stomach churned.
‘You’re nothing like her. Sure, you look like her, and you can even dress like her, but you two are poles apart. She’s harder than you. Not in a bad way, but not in a way that calls to me.’
Toying with the edge of my towel, I glanced up as he spoke. ‘I call to you?’
‘Yes. You may not be aware of it, but your body and your reactions are like a big flashing neon sign to someone like me.’
‘And what signal do I give?’
‘One that says, ‘Take me. Use me. Defile me.’
Discomfort swarmed within me at hearing those words—words I’d often wanted to say but always suppressed.
‘What if you’re wrong?’
‘Did it feel wrong when you were coming on my fingers while wearing my marks, Cora? Did you tell me to stop or beg me to continue?’ His voice thickened with a renewed lust as his eyes roved over the marks on my thighs.
‘What if I don’t want to do it again?’
The muscle in his jaw twitched at my question and sent a flutter of desire straight between my thighs. ‘If I believed you, I’d stop.’
‘You don’t believe me?’
‘I know that people can suppress their needs. Squish them away, down into a hidden compartment deep inside. But that doesn’t get rid of them or silence them. If anything, it makes them scream louder and harder until you finally unleash them.’
‘How do you know?’ I asked, swallowing hard.
‘Because I’ve been hiding my needs for years. Keeping encounters light and surface level. Fulfilling other people while never feeding the beast that lives inside me.’ Ewen ran a hand through his drying hair, his bicep thickening as he did.
‘Why?’
‘Because I hadn’t met you.’
Before that moment, I hadn’t realised it was possible to be both incredibly turned on and creeped out by the same person.
Standing up and holding my towel tight, I chewed at my lower lip before speaking. ‘I need to go. Ruby will be waiting for me.’
‘I can give you a lift home.’
