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I try to control my expression, to keep my face completely neutral, but the truth is, the mere thought of her toying with me sends my craving for her into overdrive. For a second, I falter, allowing my thoughts to wander to more lascivious leanings, how she might tease me, to her standing over me, to her naked frame dangling inches from my mouth... I brush the image away just as quickly as it appeared. This should not be happening at work.
I glance around, making certain no one else is in earshot or within view. The other staff are gossips and I wouldn’t want any of this to get out of control because, in fact, there was nothing to gossip about. A bit of harmless banter, that’s all. There aren’t any rules against having a playful conversation. But things were about to change.
I surprise myself and do something even I know is pushing the bounds of propriety. ‘Look back at the computer screen,’ I command.
She tilts her head slightly as if to say,What?but then does as she’s told.
I lean down beside her and if anyone saw us, they would think nothing of it, that we were both simply looking at something on the computer, because that’s where we’re both looking. But in fact, I’m inches away from her skin. I can smell her soft perfume mixed with the scent of her skin. It’s a heady combination that turns my senses upside down and makes me feel bolder, more adventurous than I really am. I’m so close I could kiss her neck, I could bite her earlobe, I could lick...
I whisper slowly and methodically, my hot breath stealing across her skin, ‘You may have gotten me this time, but this isn’t the end.’
She sucks in her breath and starts to turn her head—
‘Keep looking at the screen,’ I warn, my cheek inches away from hers.
She stares back at the computer, her back ramrod straight and still as a statue.
‘When you’re least expecting it, at some unknown future time, I will make you pay for that naughty, little overstep.’ We had teased each other before, but this was a whole new level we were stepping into, but if this was the game she wanted to play, so be it.
Even though I’m still bent over, almost cheek to cheek, she turns her head, so our faces are but inches apart, and replies, ‘I look forward to it.’
I don’t have time to react because just then Lorna and another administrative assistant walk back into the office and I straighten up. That was too close for comfort.
‘I’ll let you get back to the accounts,’ I say, motioning towards the computer and Leyna nods. I can sense her reluctance and I feel it too. Neither one of us wants this wicked repartee to end.
‘I’ll forward you the details of the room change,’ Leyna says.
I nod to Lorna and the other woman and head out of the main office and down the corridor, every footstep a leaden weight that tugs on my heart. I give my head a shake. That was wholly improper. What was I thinking? I let myself get carried away in the moment and, it appears, Leyna was only too happy to get carried away as well. This was not good, not good at all. This was going to end in disaster if I didn’t put a stop to it right now. I should never have leaned over, smelled her sweet skin, and whispered bullish instructions into her ear.
Why can’t you ask her out?a quiet voice asks inside my head.Who says it’s inappropriate?I argue with myself over and over as I walk back to my office, already planning how I was going to pay her back.
I was a bloody fool.
Chapter 12
Leyna
