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“That is not true,” I cried. “Fuck, I don’t even want to get into this with you.”
I stomped away from him, toward the restroom.
His footsteps alerted me of his presence before he grabbed my elbow. “Heidi, stop.”
I should have known he wouldn’t let me walk away. And, now, we were alone in a back hallway that led to the restrooms where no one could see us.
I whirled around and smacked his hand where he was touching me. “I don’t get what the hell you hope to accomplish here. Following after me and cornering me again? That’s not smart. Not only am I here with someone else, but you are also my boss.”
“Yeah, I am! Who the fuck cares?”
“I do!”
“Well, Christ, Heidi, I know how important your job is to you. I get it. I’m not trying to get you fired. And I don’t think you would get fired even if someone found out.”
“You can’t possibly know that. That’s such an incredibly naive way of thinking. Julia is one of my closest friends. I know that she has fired people or moved people to different branches of the company for less than this.”
“Less than what? One kiss before I was your boss? Because you keep telling me there’s nothing here.” He moved forward, caging me in. “Or is it that there is something here? And we are something more, but you refuse to acknowledge it.”
His lips were mere inches from my face, and my body was pulsing in response to his words. His hands trailed down my bare arms. All cognizant thoughts fled my mind. I wanted to give in to this. Just as I had wanted to at the reunion and all those months ago at Christmas. But I couldn’t.
“What part of date do you not get, Landon?” I asked, shoving him backward.
“The part where you’re not with me!” he growled.
“You are married!”
“Well, if you’d just fucking talk to me, you would know that I’m divorcing her!”
“Wait…what?” I asked, momentarily dumbfounded.
“Yeah, I’m leaving her!”
I shook my head. “You said that last time, and you still went running back to her like a dog with his tail between his legs.”
“Is that what you think happened?” he asked, his voice low and seriously pissed. “Last time, we were separated. I’d told her I was leaving her. And, now, I officially am, Heidi. I didn’t know she would be in town that day. I had no clue what kind of shit she was trying to pull. I’m here trying to fix my fucking mistakes.”
My jaw fell open at his confession. “You’re really leaving her?”
“Yes.”
His hands brushed down my arms again. When I didn’t say anything in response, he moved in closer. Our anger and frustrations scorched through the space between us. My brain couldn’t keep up with my body.
My brain was saying, Walk away. Don’t give in. Keep your defenses up.
My body was saying, Touch me, feel me, devour me.
His fingers grazed my waist, bunching up the material of my dress and forcing us back against the wall. Our gazes met, and my chest was heaving with desire and panic.
I could not give in to him.
I so wanted to give in to him.
He nuzzled my neck with the stubble of his five o’clock shadow. My breaths came out in spurts. And, at the first kiss on my neck, I was a goner. I closed my eyes and leaned my head back. Wanting this, needing this.
“Fuck, Heidi,” he groaned.
My hands wrapped around his shoulders, feeling the muscles in his back as I dragged him against me. I forgot where we were or what I was doing. I was just living in the moment. He grasped the back of one of my legs and hoisted it up around his waist. His fingers slipped up my dress and dug into my exposed thigh, leaving indents as he reveled in the taut muscle.
