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Joe had said she was dressing that way to offer herself up to me. Well, she was certainly getting my attention. Maybe I had to follow up on it.
It was against company policy, but we were two consenting adults, and if she was serious about it, why the hell not?
Chapter 3
Rena
On Thursday I was dressed in my usual office clothes again. Yesterday had been a colossal failure. Brent hadn’t looked at me twice, never mind pulling me over for hot, nasty sex. He’d had the nerve to ask me if I was dating! Like it hadn’t been obvious over the past year that I had been yearning for him.
Some men didn’t know a good woman even when she hit him in the face. I was pissed off and irritated. And sexually frustrated. I wanted a release. I wanted him to take me. I had fantasized about him doing it so many times, I was hot and bothered. But he wasn’t interested, and short of doing something ridiculous, I wasn’t going to get him to notice me.
Maybe it was better for me to move on. I had wasted a year on this guy. Everything I had done had been about him. I had dressed for him and kept myself clean and trim for him. I had dreamed of him and masturbated to him. No, getting over him would be better.
By lunchtime, my mood hadn’t improved at all, even though I decided I was over it. I left the office to meet Holly for lunch. God knows I needed to vent.
Holly Bradford and I had been friends since college. We had studied business together and graduated at the same time. She was polished and sweet and perfect. Her hair was a honey blonde, and her eyes were a bright green. She was voluptuous and shorter where I was tall and slender. We complemented each other, and we didn’t go for the same type of guy, which meant we never fought. She liked cocky and arrogant college boys or those who were only starting to build their lives. She liked the idea of potential and having a gorgeous guy who could be so much more.
I, however, preferred men who were sure of themselves. It was a tall order to find men like that at my age. So I aimed higher. Holly and I never fought about men, and we respected each other’s choices. It was what our friendship was built on. There was only one thing about Holly that I was starting to envy and that was her position in life. It wasn’t about money, either. I knew I earned more than she did. But her career was headed somewhere, while mine was staying on the same track.
Where I had become a secretary, she had become a manager of a tender department for a civil company. Sometimes, I wondered if she was better off. Especially seeing that she wasn’t so damn unfulfilled. But that had nothing to do with our careers; it was personal.
“What’s up?” Holly asked after we sat down and ordered coffee. I sighed.
“I’m over Brent.”
Holly chuckled. “Judging by how you said it, that’s not true.”
I rolled my eyes. “I should be over him. Honestly, I practically threw myself at the guy, and he just doesn’t care. It doesn’t matter what I do—he’ll never notice me.”
Holly knew everything about my conquests. The moment I’d been hired, I had called Holly and complained about my salary and that I thought he would want more from me. She’d been kind and firm. When I started developing a crush on him, Holly had been patient and understanding. Even now when I was complaining, she was willing to listen, though she’d heard the same thing over and over again.
She was a friend in a million.
“You made a move on him? In the office?”
I shook my head. “No, that would have been pushing it. Although, if I could, you know I would.”
Holly nodded. “Oh, yeah. You would have done something drastic, I just know it.”
“I did dress like an office porn star. I put on those heels I got when we went shopping last month. And the skirt with the slit.”
Holly raised her eyebrows. “That’s a statement. No one else complained?”
“I was only in my office for the day. And a statement was exactly what I’d been going for. But he didn’t seem to get it. I swear, for all his good looks, Brent is also slow on the uptake when it comes to women.” Maybe he was married, although according to Margaret, he was the most eligible bachelor in town.
“I respect your choices, Rena, but I still don’t get what you see in him. He’s so much older than you. Is it his money?”
