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“But they will know it’s me who made you do it.”
He lifts an eyebrow. “Made me do it? You think anyone can make me do anything I don’t want to?”
I smile and shake my head.
I switch my computer off, take my bag and walk to the elevator with him, turning off the lights as I do. I’m the last one on my floor and by the time I reach the elevator, the floor is dark and we can barely see the elevator.
“I like the dark, don’t you?” he says in a husky voice, close to my ear.
“Depends,” I manage to say.
“On what?” he asks.
I know everything is word play with Tate and I’m still thinking up the kind of response I think he’ll want to hear when his mouth is on mine and he is pushing me against the wall, his body rock hard against mine.
I don’t say anything, but I kiss him back, matching his intensity, surprising myself with my response. I hadn’t realized I felt this way about him, but suddenly, it’s obvious to me. The way I’ve been working like a maniac to figure him out, to get into his mind. Our bodies intertwine, my leg twists around his, pulling him closer. He is strong, when he puts his arms around me, it feels like he is going to crush me and I find myself incredibly turned on by him. He moves his hands under my top and he’s kissing me roughly. I can feel myself getting wet and excited as I shrug off my jeans right there in front of the elevator, in the dark lobby of the office building. When he enters me, I feel a jolt of electricity course through my body, energy pulsing through every cell in my body. I wrap my legs around him and he thrusts into me, banging my back against the wall. It’s rough and it’s exciting and before I know it, it’s over.
I am too stunned to realize what has happened.
Chapter 4
Tate
The next morning, when Summer comes down for breakfast, she stops in her tracks.
“I thought you were gone already,” she says.
“Change of plan,” I say.
She stares at me.
“Why?”
I couldn’t exactly tell her how I’d woken up two hours ago, in the dark, and lay in bed thinking that the last thing that I felt like doing was to plunge myself into freezing water in the coldest place on earth. I’d just had another kind of shock to the system, and I wanted to deal with that first.
“I changed my mind,” I said.
She looked at me for a moment or two, a direct and unflinching stare that she must have inherited from me. My ex-wife, Star, wasn’t one for confrontation, but Summer did not like to shy away from the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it was.
“Why?” she asked again
I shrugged. I’d learnt it was better not to lie to her.
As I expected, she accepted my evasive answer and settled for her breakfast of toast.
“I could make you a smoothie?” I offered and she pulled a face.
“Yuck, I’d rather go hungry.”
I smiled at that.
“Star called last night,” she said between mouthfuls of cereal.
“Oh?”
Since an early age, Summer had called her mother by her first name. Even though Star denied it, I had a feeling that she had requested this, to make her seem more free and unencumbered.
Summer pulled a face. “I think she is getting serious with that Trevor guy.”
