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Chapter Nineteen
After a weekof Sera spending every moment not at work with Harrison, she put her foot down and said she needed to go home for more than five minutes. Since it was Saturday, and they were actually able to spend the entire day together without having to bother with work, her words pissed Harrison off. Just as they had on the previous Sunday.
It was becoming obvious that he was jealous of her time away. He had no idea where she went or who she spent time with. On Wednesday, she had gone back to her place for a few hours, and he found himself pacing until she returned. Not that he didn’t trust her, but he had never missed anyone like he missed her.
For an instant, he had thought about tying her to his bed for the day and not letting her go, but he was sure that would just piss her off. Though after a week, he also knew it would turn her on just as much.
Now Sera had been gone a few hours, and he was antsy. She had said she would come back on Sunday afternoon and spend the night with him, but Sunday was an entire day away.
After folding the laundry that he had forced himself to do, he put it away and began pacing again, wondering if she felt the same way he did. What he did know was that after this stupid harassment thing was over, he was having her move in with him, or he was moving in with her. After a week, he was already done with the entire “your place and my place” thing.
Since his divorce, he hadn’t met anyone he had wanted to spend more than a few hours at a time with. Even his ex sometimes got on his nerves, and he had to take a walk to get away. But Sera was completely different. He craved being with her.
Deciding he could get more done at the office than here, and probably pace less, he headed out of the quite, lonely apartment, a quality he once loved about the place. Rarely had he gone to the office on a Saturday, and never had he went in jeans and a T-shirt, but he wasn’t changing. Nobody should be there anyway on a Saturday afternoon.
Harrison pulled into the parking lot that Sera always parked in. He now used it, even if they had stopped walking together to their cars after the first day. Usually, she let him get a half an hour head start before she came to his place. Then in the morning, she rushed home for about an hour before coming to work. But just parking in the same area made their relationship seem more real, even if it wasn’t when they were together at work.
He knew she wouldn’t be at the office, but he checked for her Jeep anyway. No red ones today, but there was a silver one that looked similar in the lot. Smiling at the coincidence, he walked to the building. Her driving the beat-up old car was still odd, even if she had explained that her dad loved them and that she had learned as a teenager how to fix them when something went wrong. So far, he hadn’t seen her do it, but was sure she was telling the truth.
Once in the elevator, his mood lifted a little. It would be nice to lose himself in work for a while before giving her a call this evening to see if she was willing to come back early. Maybe by then, her chores would be done.
His tennis shoes made no noise as he headed toward his office. The place was eerily silent, and he wondered if the office was haunted because it felt occupied even when empty of people. This was why he didn’t usually come in on a Saturday.
His office door was open, but he knew he had shut it. The cleaners must have left it open in error. It didn’t matter; his filing cabinet was locked, and there was nothing confidential sitting out. It was just an annoyance.
Looking out his window with a smile, he knew Sera was out there somewhere. He needed to get her address so that he actually knew where that was. After a week, he still knew very little about her. Talking had not been a priority most days.
Sitting down in his chair, movement dragged his eyes to his couch. A dark-haired teenager dressed mostly in black was looking at him over a book she was reading. Her blue eyes showed some surprise.
“Who are you?” he asked, jumping from his chair as she scrambled off the couch and dropping the book.
“Holy fuck!” the kid yelped as she headed for the door, but he was closer to it and managed to snag the sleeve of her skinny black T-shirt as she tried to rush past him.
“Who are you?”he asked again.
Now what? He had caught her, but to what end? He had no place to take her.
“Let go of me, perv!” Yelling at him as she tried to wiggle free, she was stronger than he would have assumed she would be. She was almost pulling free.
“You were in my office, kid!” he snarled and tightened his grip. Security could deal with her; that’s what they were there for. “Who are you?”
She clawed at him until he had to grab hold of her other arm, and then she started kicking him with her oversized boots. He started to drag her down the hallway toward the elevator and the security desk in the lobby. She was fighting him with every step.
“Let her go, Harrison!” Sera yelled at him from down the hallway. There was an anger in her voice he knew well.
At the sound, he let go of the kid, and she scrambled away from him as fast as her legs could take her, rushing toward Sera’s voice. Turning around, he saw Sera in blue jeans and a bright green shirt, the teenager behind her, and a smaller version of the teen in her arms.
“Mom, he’s a fucking perv! I don’t know where he was taking me,” the teen said to Sera.
“I was taking her to security. She shouldn’t be in my office,” he explained the misunderstanding.
“Then don’t have a couch in your office, perv!” the kid shot back at him from behind the protection of Sera.
“Stop it!” Sera said and put the littler girl down on the floor. “Emma, get your book and take Violet to my office. I need to talk to Harrison.”
He watched as the teen mumbled something and took the littler bouncing girl by the arm and slipped into his office, then quickly exited with a book in her hand. He watched them walk to Sera’s office. The little one looked back frequently.
“Sorry about Emma. She was just reading and not messing with anything. I can assure you she has no interest in anything in your office. I was just catching up on some work, and then we were going out for coffee,” Sera explained with her arms folded over her chest, covering the saying on her yellow T-shirt.
