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She nodded again.
“Why are you pissed off with me then?”
“I’m not.” Her eyes were focused on his left ear.
“You sound worked up. Why?”
“You have a big ego if you think I’m worked up over you.” She tried to push at his chest, but Ted wasn’t budging. As luck would have it, there was a closet to the left behind her. He knew it was deep and filled with cleaning equipment.
“You know what I think, Mandy? I think you’re jealous.” He walked her backward, then reached around her and opened the closet. Nudging her in there, he shut the door behind him.
“Wh-what are you doing? I have to work, let me out!”
“As your employer, I’m giving you a break.” Ted wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her in nice and close, then kissed her, hot and hard. He didn’t waste preliminaries by easing into it.
She didn’t want to respond. The hands on his chest clenched into his shirt, but she couldn’t help it. Like him, when they touched it was like an explosion of sensation.
“Damn, you’re sweet,” he whispered against her lips. “I want you, Mandy.”
“Why now? You’ve had eight days to want me.”
Her face told him she wished she’d left those words inside her head.
“You’re right, I have. I should have made contact with you. I was a coward.”
“Why?”
“I didn’t know what to say to you.”
Her laugh held no humor. “You don’t honestly expect me to believe that, do you? Mr. smooth-talking Ted Hosking had no words?”
She wore a dress beneath the apron, so he slid his hand under the hem and up a silken thigh. She didn’t push him away, her hands instead gripping the front of his shirt.
“It’s the truth. You get to me, and I don’t know what to do about it.”
She sighed as he touched the silk of her panties.
“We can’t—”
“We can.”
He touched her, stroking the essence of her, stoking the fires of need. Sliding his finger beneath the fabric, he found her damp and ready.
“God, what you do to me.” He said the words against her lips.
The rattle of the door handle had him lowering her skirts quickly.
Light filtered in.
“Oops, sorry, just getting a mop.”
Ted looked over his shoulder and saw a grinning Fin Hudson, and then they were in the dark again.
“I’ll never live this down,” he gritted out.
“You? What about me? I cannot believe I did that. Can’t believe I would behave that way!”
She was furious suddenly. Gone was the passion, and in its place was anger.
