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The fact that I would constantly catch her looking at me with a dazed expression on her face made things harder. Those looks made me think she wanted me the same way I wanted her. It was easy to think this as her expressive eyes always seemed to be telling you something. Her confirmation of hatred for me in the past was the only thing that wiped that thought away every time. I knew Olivia wouldn’t think of me in that way. She definitely wasn’t as depraved as I was.
How depraved does a person have to be to get a hard-on every time a woman stared at him? Well, I tried to justify my thoughts that she wasn’t just any woman. The dark-haired angel wielded the power to make me lose track of time and place, more reasons why I shouldn’t even be feeling this way about her.
The last time I had a woman who made me feel things similar to this, it had gone badly. The fact that my feelings toward Olivia felt much stronger than anything I had ever felt for Jessica already told me how dangerous this was going to be.
And the signs were written in stone after how I dealt with everything today. First off, her presence at my house had displaced me, and it took a while for me to get my bearings. I had to constantly remind myself of who she was and why I couldn’t allow my brain to continue on the trajectory it was heading just to be able to make it through breakfast.
Pretending to be working on my tablet didn’t fool anyone, especially me, since I constantly stared up at her as she consumed her breakfast with gusto. Her appetite was a huge shock, but it didn’t put me off like I wanted it to. Instead, it made me think of how I’d rather eat my food off her body, than have her for dessert right after. It was at this point I lost all interest in my boring food.
Thinking the rest of the day wouldn’t be as hard to get through as breakfast had been a mistake. Olivia had done nothing but tormented me, even if it was without her knowledge. My earlier mission had been to explain my day to her as it went along, but every damn time I turned to her to explain something, my words always got lodged in my throat the instant I met those enthralling eyes watching me. Somehow I managed to shake this off with a smile, always ignoring the blush on her cheeks.
Her presence was a distraction, and my desires for her and my recent overactive imagination had made things difficult for me. It also didn’t help that there was a desk, which had now in my mind, turned into a sexual abode.
Olivia McKenna wasn’t exactly the kind of shadow a man wanted, at least not me, but I got myself into this and now itseemed like I was in a more confusing situation and didn’t know how to go about it.
“Ethan,” her voice called out to me again. I blinked myself back to reality and stared at her worried face. “What are we going to do?”
That was on me, whether I wanted it to be or not. I should’ve just let her go home when Gloria left, but I’d been so absent-minded.
“Let me see if there’s a way we can get home,” I said, picking up my suit jacket.
“Look at it coming down, Ethan. There’s obviously no way we would make it home. There’s no one on the road,” Olivia snapped, sounding on edge. “It’s a blizzard. What are we going to do?”
I don’t know, but I should probably remove myself from her presence, at least for a moment, so I can think clearly.
“Just wait here, okay,” I said calmly.
“Okay,” she grumbled, rubbing her palms across her arms.
My eyes roamed over her body clad in a cream satin shirt and coffee-colored pants. Realizing she was cold, I stepped closer to her and placed my dark suit jacket over her shoulders. She tried to dismiss my offer, shrugging out of it as she threw me a glare. “Stay put,” I told her and she remained still as I said this, staring up at me with an inviting slightly open mouth.
I fought the urge to close the gap between us and kiss her senselessly and instead stepped back. At the rate I was going, I may not be able to withstand the next few minutes standing next to her without doing something I’d regret. With these thoughts, it was obvious I couldn’t settle for staying the night in my office until the roads became passable. I needed to see if there was something else that could be done about our current situation.
Before things became harder to handle, I walked out of my office and took the elevator straight to the ground floor. Thebuilding was already deserted, and only a few janitors and security officers remained, and from the look of things, they were all pretty resigned they would be there for the night. I didn’t bother them and decided to step out to see how bad it was for myself.
Fortunately for me, I wasn’t a lightweight and that was the only reason I was able to stand my ground with the gust of wind that hit me as soon as I stepped out of the building. What I expected to be a passing snowstorm turned out to be a blizzard, and one of the worst I had seen in some time. Quickly, I stepped back inside, cursing out loud in frustration.
No matter how much I wanted to avoid this, there was no way around it. We were stuck here for the night because even if the snow stopped, it would take hours before the crews could clear the streets and sidewalks.
I reluctantly made my way back up to my office, accepting the situation begrudgingly. Olivia was standing next to the window as I entered my office, staring out into the sea of white, her arms wrapped around her body. She immediately turned toward me after hearing me enter, her blue eyes filled with question.
I looked her up and down, admiring the fact that she looked right at home in my suit jacket.
“So, did you find out if we will be able to get out of here tonight?” she asked expectantly.
“Yes.” I nodded, sitting on the long couch. “We’re not going anywhere and will need to stay here tonight.”
“What?” she exclaimed.
“It’s brutal out there, a full-on blizzard and we have no other option,” I said, shrugging as though the whole situation didn’t faze me, while deep down, my heart was palpitating wildly in my chest.
Olivia stalked over to where I was and sat on the sofa adjacent to me, pouting very cutely I might add. I tried my best to shrug off the way her lips made me crave her kisses. She raised a brow. “You’re not going to make me work through the night, are you?”
“No.” I stood up, taking long strides over to my desk. I sat down and turned toward my computer.
“What are you doing?” She yelled, sounding alarmed.
“Getting back to work,” I replied nonchalantly as I tried to focus on the task at hand. What this great task was I had no idea.
