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After another moment of studying me, he pulled away. He stayed silent the rest of the drive to the office.
24
***Aggie***
Istaredatmyreflection in the elevator wall and tilted my head as I wondered if my skirt was tighter than it’d been the last time I wore it. Monroe had always suggested going to the gym to work out together and I hadn’t lifted a weight since he’d dumped me. I turned to the side and frowned. I couldn’t be sure, but I was pretty sure my ass was slightly larger. Was it possible for an ass to grow in that little time?
I adjusted my blouse and ran my hands over my professional bun. With my hair slicked back like it was, I felt boring, but if I wore my hair down, I felt like I wasn’t taken as seriously. Every part of my outfits for work had been planned with a reason in mind when I’d worked for Monroe. The shirts were loose and showed no cleavage, so no one would accuse me of sleeping around. That had been before I started seeing Monroe and people thought that anyway. My skirts were long enough to be modest, but short enough to be interesting. I didn’t want to look like a senior citizen before my time. My power move had always been the heels, though. I never wore heels shorter than five inches to work. With my already above average height, the heels made me tower over most men.
Working for Monroe had been terrible at first. I didn’t think of those times very often, because nearly a decade had passed, but I’d been through hell trying to be taken seriously. Down to the makeup I still wore, I’d had to curate every part of myself to make sure the men around me didn’t find me too appealing, but also not too unappealing. I’d watched women who deserved spots at the top be ruined because a man had found them attractive.
Standing next to Zander in the private executive elevator, I felt like a sad version of myself. Whatever job I ended up with, I was going to make sure I dressed the way I wanted. The atmosphere of Monroe’s company wouldn’t hold me in any way. Once I was done cutting the bastard down, I was done with him in every way. Him and his toxic company.
The elevator came to a stop suddenly and I stumbled in my heels. I caught myself against that same elevator wall and looked back at Zander. “What happened? Why’d we stop?”
He took his hand off the button that’d stopped the elevator and tapped out something on his phone before putting it away and looking up at me. “I don’t hate you. I don’t think you’re trash. I don’t think little of you.”
I swallowed under his intense focus. “You really stopped the elevator to tell me that?”
“I was standing there, watching you frown at yourself, and I realized something.” He pursed his lips and held out his hands. “I own this building and I have the power to stop time, at least for me and you, right now.”
I crossed my arms over my chest and backed up a step. “You decided to use your superpower to talk to me because I was frowning?”
“I decided to stop time for us right now because the idea of you thinking I hate you didn’t sit right with me.” He never took his eyes off mine as he stepped closer. “As for respecting you, I looked over your previous projects last night. If you’re the one who did the work, Blake is a fucking jackass for getting rid of you. I don’t know you professionally, though, Aggie. I can’t say one way or another what I think about you in that way yet. As a person, however? I respect the hell out of the woman I’ve seen so far.”
I backed up another step. “You’ll see soon what I can do.”
He nodded. “I will.”
“I’m good.” I winced as I heard myself, hiding behind such a childish sounding explanation for what I could do.
“But you were wrong.” He stepped closer.
I bumped into the wall behind me. “About what?”
“You thought I felt a certain way about you. You were wrong.” He planted his hands on either side of my head and boxed me in. “You liked what I did to you and you were wrong about your reasoning for staying away from me, Aggie.”
I sucked in a breath that smelled like him and searched his face for any sign that he was teasing me. All I found was heat in his light brown eyes. Licking my lips, I pressed my head into the wall and waited for his next move. I was too unsure of what was happening to chance doing the wrong thing.
“You spent your time this morning putting on your makeup to hide the beard burn from my brother.” He gripped my shoulders and spun me so I was facing the wall. “I don’t want to mess up your pretty face, Aggie.”
The mirrored wall was cold under my palms and it allowed me to watch Zander’s face as he gripped my hips and pulled my ass back into his body. I melted under the desire I saw reflecting back at me. “The elevator…”
“Will be ignored until I unfreeze it. Remember my superpower, baby.” His hands pulled my shirt free from my skirt and let the silky material gather at his wrists as he continued working it up until my breasts were in his palms. “Turns out I’m a jealous man. Knowing my brothers were in you while I couldn’t touch you made me crazy. I had to stop myself from coming into your bedroom at night and waking you up with my mouth between your thighs.”
I shuddered as he pinched my nipples through my bra and pressed my hips against him harder. The feeling of his hard length was like a promise I’d always been waiting on. “Zander…”
He ran one hand down to my thighs and worked my skirt higher. “For a man who needs control, you’re a ticking time bomb. You test my ability to stay calm, baby.”
At the first feeling of his fingers on my thighs, I spread my legs wider. “I…like you having control.”
“You will. When I finally take it completely.” He slipped his fingers into my panties and tested my wetness. “Tell me something, baby. Did you let both of my brothers come inside you?”
I held my breath as his hand slowly moved higher, until it was cupping my throat. I nodded and felt his fingers tighten just the slightest bit.
“I’ve never come inside a woman before you.” He curled his fingers as he slid two of them inside me. “I’ve shared women with my brothers before and it never bothered me to not be involved for weeks at a time. I’m a busy man. I don’t have time to chase after women. The fact that I haven’t come inside your pussy and they have is all I can think of, though, Aggie. I feel like chasing you and I’m not sure what to think about that.”
It was hard to think clearly when his fingers were rubbing a magical spot inside me and his hand was tightening around my neck. I let out a breathy whimper and rolled my hips against him, inviting him to do whatever he wanted.
