I glance in the mirror at my blotchy face and panic.With no purse, I have nothing to touch it up.Spying the rolled hand towels, I dart across the small space, but the door flies open before I reach them.
I freeze, taking in the large, formidable attorney who stands in the doorway looking as if he’s ready to fight a lion.
“Why didn’t you answer?”Zander growls.I open my mouth to answer, but he crosses the room, taking my face in his hand.“Did I do this?Did I make you cry?”
I shake my head.
Why do I want to slam my fist against his chest while also hoping he’ll kiss me?This man drives me insane.
“No...fine, yes.”My eyes lift to his.“You embarrassed me, Zander.”
Glowering blue eyes meet mine as a surge of desire plows through me, and I hear myself gasp.
He moves closer somehow, although I don’t see him move, as if our bodies are magnets drawn together from carnal need.Hungry.Ignoring all the reasons why this is forbidden and wrong.
I see what he’s been hiding.
Zander Sterling wants me.He craves my mouth as I do his.Torrents of desire blaze within his deep globes like a storm is brewing.
It is.Because we can’t do this.
Hecan’t do this as the law doesn’t permit it.
“I’m sorry,” Zander rasps, apologizing for embarrassing me, but he doesn’t move away, and that tells me even more.
“Please trust me, Zander.I’m not lying.I met John after I left Adam.I thought I loved my husband, and even after I realized it was over, I had no desire to stay and be unfaithful.”
Zander curses, his hand falling away.
I close my eyes at the loss of his touch, wishing for a split second that I was his.That he was mine.That I could feel his mouth on mine and be wrapped in his arms.
To be able to run my hands up his chest and know what his cock feels like inside me.
It’s wrong.
I shouldn’t think these thoughts, but I do.I’ve laid in bed, ridden through the streets, walked through lobbies, rinsed dishes...gone about my life for weeks thinking about this man.
My attorney.
My eyes fly open as Zander takes my hips.
“Courtney.Fuck,” he rasps, as I hold my breath.“I need to pass your job onto another partner.I’m excessively attracted to you and...Jesus, I’m sorry.This has never happened before.”
No!
I can’t lose him.
Not as a lawyer, but also Zander’s presence in my life, while he’s been rude and intolerable...he’s like a rock.
A rock that I need at this moment.
“No.”I step back, bumping into the wall.“No.I want you.I mean, I want you.Clearly, I’m attracted to you.”Oh god, stop talking.“I want you to remain my attorney.You’re the best.Otherwise, Adam will take everything.”
Dominant eyes hold mine.
“I could get disbarred.I won’t risk that.”His voice is rough.
“Nothing has happened.”My eyes lower to where he holds my hips.
