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“Leave,” I tell her.
I hate to be an asshole, but I didn’t invite her and I figured she would’ve gotten the hint when I didn’t call her or answer her calls since that night I left her apartment.
She walks slowly, opening her coat, revealing exactly what I assumed. She’s clad in a lacy number that does nothing for my cock. I’m not even hard. She places her hands on my chest, and I grip her wrists to get her to stop so I can make her leave. But luck isn’t on my side and what I feared would happen does in the next second when the door to my office opens, and Janine stops, her eyes widening with Aura right behind her.
My gaze lands on the most important person in the room, and the look on her face breaks me. Her smile dies a quick death and her eyes lower to the ground. Her eyes glass over, and Meredith’s words make it ten times worse, I wish I could strangle her. I have never laid my hands on a woman, but right now, my mind is imagining squeezing the life out of her.
Meredith looks at me with her eyes full of lust. “Excuse me. We will just be a second. Right, baby?” she coos. “It’s been a while.”
I have never heard Janine’s voice laced with malice. Her voice is deadly when she turns her head after shielding Aura from the scene in front of her.
“Sorry to have interrupted. I thought we were having a meeting. I guess I misread the message earlier,” Janine says in a tight voice.
Fuck. What the fuck just happened? I shove Meredith away.
“Get out,” I say in a voice that drips with venom. “If you come to my building unannounced, I will have you thrown out. We are done. I didn’t call or plan to call you.”
“It’s because of her,” she seethes, closing her coat and raising her chin.
I know she means Aura. You could tell from her expression and the way Janine was shielding Aura from watching Meredith’s hands pawing all over my dress shirt on my chest.
“It will always be because of her. Now get out and don’t ever come back.”
She lowers her head in defeat. She knows the shit she pulled just backfired. If I had known she was capable of showing up like she just did and throwing herself at me, I would have made my point sooner.
I open the door and call out to the secretary in front of the elevator.
“Call security and make sure she is shown out and is not allowed back in. Where are Janine and Aura?”
The girl scrambles on the desk and picks up the phone and follows my instruction. “Yes, sir. I think Janine and Miss Aura are in the boardroom.”
“Let’s see how long she lasts,” Meredith spits her vitriol as she enters the elevator.
“Get the fuck out,” I quip.
My patience is wearing thin, and this bitch is pushing me to my limit. I look down the hallway on my floor and see the brown wooden door, and I know there is only one way I can show her.
I hurriedly walk down the hallway and open the door. Aura quickly averts her gaze and looks out the window. My chest aches because she must think I’m a piece of shit.
Janine quirks a brow. “Finished?”
I moved to close the electric shades on the windows by the double doors.
“Leave us, Janine. Make sure no one knocks on the door, lock it on your way out.”
“Sure thing,” she says as she walks out and does as she’s asked.
I walk over to where Aura is seated, and she stiffens when I approach her.
“It’s not what you think.”
Her head tips up, and the look on her face is hard and emotionless. Her lips compress into a thin line.
“It’s fine.” She gets up, and panic surges through my veins. “Doesn’t matter what I think. You don’t have to explain yourself, Kalum. I understand.”
“What do you understand?”
“That we are just friends and whatever intimacy we shared meant nothing, like it always did and always will. I would like to leave now.”
