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“You’d better be careful walking around Manhattan like that. Every man who sees you is likely to fall in love with you.” He gave her a wink, and she giggled. Her nerve endings tingled and enjoyed it.
“Well, I’ll be on the lookout. I don’t want all of them to fall in love with me,” she teased back, giving him a wink. His cheeks turned slightly pink, and he blinked and looked away from her as she turned and walked from his office, swaying her hips just a little, just enough to make him look. When she glanced over her shoulder as she closed the door behind her, she saw that he was looking, and they grinned at one another before she closed the door.
She knew that in any other office, with any other boss, none of what they had done would be acceptable. It was a problem for a lot of women who had leering male bosses, or co-workers who expected more than they should or who demanded inappropriate things from the women that they worked with. She was definitely on the side of women getting ahead in the world without having men get in the way of it, and without them using sex for office or business politics, but in her case, in that office, working for Derrick Madison, she was enjoying it just as much as he was, and she wasn’t about to push for it to stop.
It had grown gradually between them, and when she had first started, they had both been all business. But there was a deep chemistry that she felt toward him, something wild and hungry that ignited in the depths of her, and it hadn’t taken long at all to see that he felt something similar for her as well. There was no denying a mutual attraction, and that had led to the point they were at, where they both flirted with one another in the office, though it was nothing more than that, and both of them enjoyed it immensely.
She had no idea where it would go, but she was fine with it being where it was, and so was he. She returned to her work and tried to keep her mind and thoughts on what she was doing. The day passed by, and later that afternoon, when he had finished a phone call, he buzzed her into his office.
Eva walked in and closed the door of his office behind her. “What can I do for you?” she asked, going to the edge of his desk.
He smiled up at her. “Well, I just had an unexpected phone call. The meeting I had with Parker Bennett has moved from Boston to the Bahamas, if you can believe that. He’s a little spontaneous like that, sometimes. I guess he decided to take off to the islands for a month. The deal we’re working on with him has to be signed before the end of the week. If we want to get it done, and we do, we’re going to have to go down to the Bahamas and chase Parker down and get him to sign it there. We have to complete this deal. There are about five thousand jobs on the line for it.”
Derrick leaned back in his chair a little bit, looking her in the eyes. “I don’t mind going down there myself, at least it’s someplace beautiful. I will need your help down there, though, and I have to ask if you’d mind going with me.”
Excitement flooded through every one of her veins as she realized what he was asking. She could not stop the grin that took over her face. “Well, yes, of course I’ll go! Who wouldn’t want to go to the Bahamas? I’ve never been anywhere before, and it would be amazing to be there! Thank you! I’d love to!”
He nodded, and his smile grew a little more. “Well, thanks for the save. And… Eva…” he gave her a wink, “maybe you could pack a two piece swimsuit, that is if you’re planning on swimming.”
She laughed and nodded. “I’ll see what I can find. What are you going to be wearing?” she asked in return, raising one eyebrow and letting herself picture him on the beach. Her body warmed to the thought.
He shook his head and smiled. “Not much…” he answered with a chuckle.
Eva left him and went back to her desk, her mind filled with thoughts of the two of them in the Bahamas. Nothing had made her so excited and so happy in a
ges. When he called out to her desk a while later, she had good news for him.
“Would you please reschedule that meeting with Hendricks?” he asked.
“Yes, I’ll do that right now. By the way, the Bahamas trip is booked.” She grinned in utter delight.
He was quiet a moment. “The whole trip? Everything is booked?” he asked in absolute wonder.
“Yes. I found out where Parker is staying, and I rented a beach house very near his. I have your private jet ready to go, and there will be a car there for us. It’s all done. I emailed you the details.” She tried not to sound as giddy as she felt.
He laughed softly into the phone. “My god, you’re a wonder. What on earth did I ever do before you got here? Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Truly, I do.”
“You’re welcome,” she said with a velvet soft voice, and they hung up their phones.
Eva had never packed as thoughtfully as she did when she packed her bags to go to the Bahamas with her incredibly sexy boss. Every slinky dress she had had been laid out on her bed, every piece of clothing was carefully considered, and most of them were tossed back into her closet and drawers.
His limo picked her up from her home, and together they rode to the airport, where his private jet was waiting to fly them away. She had to wear a coat in the car because a spring rain shower was washing the city that morning, but when they got into the airplane, she didn’t waste much time in pulling her coat off and handing it to the flight attendant.
She didn’t miss it when Derrick’s eyes swept slowly over her light blue dress. The thin material moved around her like angel’s wings on a thin pillow of air, molding itself to her in many places, while seeming to float above her skin in other places. It was cut in a V shape at the neckline, and an inverted V at the center of the hem, which fell across her legs mid-thigh. She knew that she looked good in it, but it was pleasing to her to see that he could barely take his eyes off of her as she moved to the chair to sit across from him, facing him.
Eva had decided to leave whatever might happen on the island to the fates. She wasn’t going to try too hard to make anything happen between them, he was her boss after all, but the sparks that had been getting stronger in her had diminished her inhibitions, and she had opted to let whatever might happen between them, happen. It was a faraway trip, it was a tropical island, and she wasn’t going to say no if he wanted to explore anything beyond their business relationship, though he had given her no clear indication that that would ever happen.
He cleared his throat and made himself look from her body to her eyes. He told himself over and over that she was his secretary and it didn’t matter what she looked like, she was his employee and he had to remember that if he expected to keep her as his employee. She had more than proven her worth to him, and the last thing he wanted to do was replace her, but he had been doing his level best to push back all of the growing desire that he felt rising up in him for her. The light blue silky looking dress she was wearing only made him want to look without limits and touch what he was looking at, but when she had sat down before him, he lifted his eyes to meet hers and promised himself that he would keep them there.
The flight attendant came to them and asked them what she could bring them, and he answered breakfast and she answered champagne, and then looked at him with that sweet smile of hers that made his stomach do a flip, and asked if champagne was alright.
He waved his hand and nodded, asking the attendant to bring it. She said she would. He thought to himself that maybe the champagne would calm his nerves. It was one thing to appreciate a beautiful woman, but it was another thing altogether to feel such an attraction to one day in and day out and have it go unfulfilled. He had thought that she was beautiful at first, and he liked that, but then he had gotten to know her and he had discovered that she was as smart and as sweet as she was beautiful, and seeds of desire had begun to grow in him.
He’d found himself flirting with her here and there at the beginning, afterwards chastising himself a little about flirting with an employee, but she flirted back, and then it became a game. Then the game began to heat up, and the fun had begun to slowly turn to need. There was something changing between them, and he couldn’t pinpoint it, but he knew that they would need to be a lot more careful about their flirting. Part of him wanted to hold back and ease up on it, and the other part of him wanted to rush headlong into it and lose himself in the sweet warmth of her beauty and her body. He had a feeling that he could get lost in her, and the idea of getting lost in anything so delicious and so beautiful was enormously enticing to him. It would take him away from the world where he was alone, where his father had died, where he was having to take on all of the responsibilities of the business, and he would have nothing but pleasure and peace, and he was certain, incredible satisfaction.
The champagne arrived, and they both finished off their glasses in no more than a few minutes. He poured more for them, and his nerves began to settle as she talked softly and laughed. She made him feel at ease just as much as she created heated tension in him.
Derrick couldn’t take his eyes from her, and he didn’t want to. He finally took the plunge and asked her something that had been on his mind since he had interviewed her for her job.
