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“Alone,” he snapped, not turning around.
I sat back down and started gathering up the dishes, unable to keep from smiling as I heard the bathroom door lock. Apparently, Aden though I might burst in there and ravage him. I was more than happy to accept the first win in this battle and headed home to do the dishes.
Putting on my sexiest outfit that could still pass as office appropriate, I drove down to the parking garage, leaving my VW Bug in the deepest, darkest corner of the massive, concrete building. It really was an interesting idea when you thought about it. A structure that looked like a building but was basically a stack of parking lots.
Carefully getting out of the driver’s seat so I didn’t accidentally flash the security cameras, I made my way up to the human world and then over to the building. Keeping a sway in my hips the entire time. The short walk still gave me lots of time to practice my sexy sashay.
No sooner did my ass hit my chair than the new guy, Carlos, hired the other day to do storyboards for a new campaign, also visible from my desk, seemed to go into something of a panic.
“What’s up, Carlos?” I asked, inching into his cubicle to see if I could help.
He looked up at me wide-eyed. “I can’t find the tag-sheet,” he gasped. The guy was a little high strung.
“The what?” I asked, keeping my voice down.
“The outline that the copywriters did up listing the most important beats of the new campaign, I had it when I left this morning. Or at least I thought I did.”
He was going through the papers on his desk in such a crazy way I figured he was making them more unorganized than they were before. Not finding anything there, Carlos turned to another stack, almost knocking over his coffee mug into the first pile.
I grabbed it before a drop could spill.
“You don’t have it on your computer?”
Erratically, he shook his head. “I asked for a hard copy so I could mark on it, codes and stuff.”
“Oh.”
“I’m so screwed!”
“Not necessarily,” I said, with a flash of inspiration.
Just then, Cooper walked by, giving both of us the stink-eye, like he had caught us fucking on the desk or something. My big brother was such a buzzkill sometimes. I ignored him.
“How is that?” Carlos asked, looking up at me like I was an angel.
“I get forwarded everything,” I told him, inching towards the door to his cubical.
“Oh, that makes sense,” Carlos said, seeming to relax, and finally, take a deep breath.
“Give me ten minutes.”
I hurried back over to the desk and searched for the message that I was sure I’d seen. Locating it, I quickly printed off a hardcopy, knowing that’s what he preferred and got it over to Carlos, who was so happy he gave me a grateful kiss on the cheek. It was nothing, really. Just a little peck to show his appreciation. Not super appropriate for the office setting, but he had been in distress, so it was understandable — at least to those of a rational mindset.
Sadly, this did not apply to my big brother. Just as Carlos was giving me that innocent kiss of thanks, Coop just so happened by again and cleared his throat quite aggressively. Carlos didn’t seem to notice, or if he did, he didn’t care and returned to his desk to keep working on the storyboards.
“Breakroom,” I snapped, glaring at my brother.
“What?”
“Now!”
“What’s going—”
I grabbed his arm and pulled him with me.
“How old am I?” I asked, slamming the door behind us.
Cooper rolled his eyes. “I don’t see—”
