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“Oh, there’s an e-mail from you marked ‘my assignment’.” He looked up briefly to Alexa then he directed his eyes back to his BlackBerry screen.
Alexa felt a wave of nausea swoop into her belly. She was going to be sick.
“Oh, it’s not important. I’ve already dealt with the matter.” Alexa gave a nervous chuckle as she struggled to sound as dismissive as possible. What she really wanted to do was climb over that boardroom table and grab that cell phone from his grasp and delete that email. But that would be just so…unprofessional.
Guilt was a tough thing to hide. So was utter and complete humiliation.
Alexa flushed probably a thousand shades of rouge. How could she possibly explain now, that it was just meant to be a private email sent to a friend for an assignment on romance writing? But thinking about it now in hindsight, sending a salacious email about your boss to a third party was probably high up there on the list of grounds for dismissal.
Okay, it’s safe to panic, now! Alexa curdled inside. Now she understood what was meant by ‘die from embarrassment.’
Jess was now into a full blown heat wave. He was both in a state of shock and rock hard. Heat rose in all places of his body. He chuckled nervously shaking his head as he opened his eyes wider to see if he were reading correctly. Uncomfortably, he loosened the tie around his neck as he tried to hide the look of shock on his face from the other board members. Another thought penetrated him. Alexa thinks I’m hot? All this time he thought it was just a one-way sentiment. It took a lot to make him blush. The flush in his face was evident, he was sure.
But this was all wrong. As long as Alexa was his employee, any type of personal relationship was out of the question. This was not going to happen any time soon. She would be a liability for everything he worked for. Suddenly, Jess’s mind drew a blank. He couldn’t think of anything else but Alexa. For a moment he’d forgotten what he was doing sitting in the boardroom or why he went to check his e-mail in the first place. Oh, the client—right.
A cocktail of raw emotions stirred inside him. Shock. Desire. Lust. Confusion. Not a good mixture. Certainly, not now. He knew his weakness. If he didn’t shift his focus and keep his butt on the business, his butt would be on the line.
Damn that erection! He was fully hard by now just reading her passage. It read more like an erotic novel of some sort. This wasn’t the Alexa he knew. Did she really write those words about him? Did she really think of him that way?
“What’s wrong with you, Jess,” Lee’s concerned, high-pitched voice intercepted his pre-orgasmic phase as she noticed her brother loosening his tie around his neck once more. Perspiration moistened his face. His body core temperature must have climbed a few notches while he read the e-mail.
“You look hot,” Lee continued.
Yeah. Apparently, you’re not the only one who thinks so!
Jess thought he had issues to sort out prior to walking into the appraisal this morning. Now his sudden dilemma was…what was he going to do about Alexa?
CHAPTER 4
Jess knew damn well he had to get on with the show, however hard it was. Again, he readjusted his tie around his neck and cleared his throat.
Alexa thinks I’m hot?
She really thinks I’m hot? Yeah, so damned hot she had to send an e-mail. Jess had an eerie suspicion given the point of view the e-mail was written in that he was not the intended recipient. If that was the case. Who was the e-mail’s intended recipient? He would just love to know that!
This was not good. This was not good one bit. All the while he motioned for the meeting to go forward as the rest of the board conducted the appraisal. He had excused himself for water, though his coffee was inches away on the boardroom table and he could have intercomed the reception to bring a glass of water. He needed air. To get out. What was happening to him? His mind was a whirlwind daze. So not cool. So not like him. Was he losing it? Was the stress getting to him? Or the fact that he could not, ever have Alexa under any circumstances. He would have to put a stop to this now or this may very well put a stop to everything he’d damned near work so hard for.
Yes, temptation was the devil.
This was a tease.
An inappropriate e-mail seduction.
Grounds for dismissal. If anyone else caught wind of this electronic sex text, he was good as dead. Good as dead, huh? All Jess could think about was her luscious full lips moving as she spoke at the meeting when she answered Chase’s questions. He couldn’t help noticing how flushed she looked and hoped that the others would think it was a direct result of employee-appraisal-nerves.
Oh, hell. How could he even concentrate on her evaluation when the only image driving through his mind was of how he could make good on her salacious e-mail seduction. The things he could do to her. God, if only he could jump on this invitation. If the rules were different. If he were not her boss and she was not his employee. His subordinate. Working under him. Or laying under me…
