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So I guess I might just be that easy.
“Can I talk to you for a minute, Promise? I’ll get out of your hair after that.”
Shock holds me numb for a minute. “I’m sorry. I’m confused. Since when do you actually ask for a minute? Usually you just drag me into a corner and beat on your chest like some damn caveman! You woman…me man. You go with me.”
He throws his head back, his dark hair gleaming in the light. I pull in a deep lungful of the night air. Lord, he’s good to look at. Almost fucking edible.
His blue eyes sparkle in the dim light as he smirks at me. His broad shoulders block out the glow behind him, cocooning us in a small circle that no one else is invited into.
“I don’t sound exactly like that! My voice is a lot deeper I think!”
I shake my head and sigh. “Fine. I’ll bite. What do you want to talk to me about, Drake?”
He turns his head back and forth. Then he grasps my arm in his long fingers and there goes that damn burn again. Like a flickering candle under my skin. Just brief flashes of heat over and over wherever he touches me.
But this time I don’t pull away. There’s just something about tonight that makes me want to go a little crazy.
Maybe it’s fear that I won’t get that promotion. Maybe it’s just the need and hunger for this man. And the way he’s been trying to help me. Take care of me. I can’t even remember the last time someone helped me without an agenda. Definitely not my hubby!
All he ever did was lie and cheat on me. And ignore me. The lying and cheating was bad enough but when he started acting like I was just a piece of furniture? That hurt all the way down into my soul.
Drake is focused on me. To an annoying extent sometime. I can’t seem to shake him no matter what I do and all of a sudden, I just don’t want to.
He drags me into an empty conference room on the ground floor. This part of the building is rarely used and there’s no one anywhere near us tonight.
He closes and locks the door and then prowls the room, his eyes fixed on the ground.
“Are you going to tell me what you wanted, Drake? Or just do laps until your smartwatch says you’re done?”
His lip quirks up. “That’s one of the things that I fucking love about you, you know that”. That sassy fucking mouth. I can’t decide whether to kiss it or fill it with something else. Something guaranteed to shut you up.”
Heat blasts me like a furnace cranked up to one hundred degrees until it feels like I’m about to melt into the cracked linoleum floor.
“Wh-what are you talking about?”
“That I love you? I probably have since the first time I saw you.” He shoves his hands in his pockets and paces the far corners of the room like he’s afraid to be near me.
“Why don’t you come over here, Drake?”
He shakes his head and gives me a wry look so full of heat and need that I can feel it all the way into my bones. Like he’s become part of my DNA. Fused himself into my body.
“If I come over there I won’t be able to resist and there’s no way in hell that I will get this out.”
“Get what out?” I whisper, unsure if I want the answer or not. This moment feels loaded, like there’s a bomb about to drop into the middle of the room and blow the whole place to smithereens!
“Fuck it!” he grumbles under his breath. Ten long strides later and he’s standing in front of me. Right before he yanks me into his arms and his firm, warm lips slam down on mine, drinking in my quick gasp of shock.
Just as fast as he strikes, his lips soften and tease mine until I let him inside, his tongue wrapping around mine, dancing and playing with mine until I’m gasping for air and it feels like I’m burning up inside.
My head is reeling and my chest is burning. I can’t breathe. Can’t think.
Until he steps back and pulls me with him. Following blindly, I realize that he’s got something on his mind.
“Drake?” I whimper. My hands are clenched in the smooth fabric of his suit jacket but he doesn’t seem to give a damn.
“Yeah, baby girl. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you this whole time. I guess maybe I should have just shown you what’s going on here.”
He picks me up easily and I gasp, wrapping my legs and arms around him like a clinging vine. My dress rides up my thighs until I’m practically bare against his hips.
