She’d found me in the office as usual, pretending to work when all I was really doing was avoiding her. It was getting harder and harder to be around her and not have her, and it hurt to stay away. For her sake, I was trying to do the right thing, but a man can only take so much.
She’d walked into the room with that smile that could make me do anything and I’d looked at her as if starved for the sight of her. “There you are. It’s time for our movie, aren’t you coming?” I swallowed hard and looked away from her. At least she was covered this time but she wore her nightshirt under a robe.
There was nothing new in that, she’d always dressed that way on movie night because more often than not she’d fall asleep and I’d take her up and tuck her into bed. But that was before I found it increasingly harder to walk away after laying her between the sheets.
“I had some last minute stuff to take care of. You go on ahead and start I’ll be there.” She’d pouted and walked around the desk, this time plopping her ass down in my lap and wrapping her arms around my neck. My arms automatically went around her middle. The robe fell apart and it was then I saw that beneath the short silk robe she wore a matching negligee.
I almost threw her off of me but the movement only brought her higher on my lap. My lap that was holding the hard-on that had sprung up as soon as her scent hit me when she walked through the door.
We looked at each other and I’ll never forget the look of innocent wonder on her face as she stared into my eyes. She pressed herself against my cock and I’m fucked if her eyes didn’t say what her lips didn’t. I saw need, desire, and lust. All the things I’d been fighting myself were right there in her eyes and I almost caved.
I closed my eyes and moved her off my lap and her soft ‘why’ had dispelled any and all doubts. I couldn’t answer her. I knew that whatever I said then would change our lives forever, so instead I shook my head and left the room and the house.
I found the place without any hassle but did a double take once I walked inside. As was the norm, whenever I entered any place with my team shadowing me, everyone stopped what they were doing.
Of course I walked in like I owned the place. I probably did since I owned a lot of real estate here, but I wasn’t sure and wasn’t interested at this particular moment. I looked at the different stalls and workstations but didn’t see her. I was about to give up when Ralph indicated a curtain at the very end of the room.
I moved toward it and pulled it back and my heart almost stopped.
“You put holes in her I’ll skin you. Get the fuck away from her.” I put myself between her and the tattooed asshole that was leaning over her. “Cover yourself Alexandra.” I pulled the shirt she had rucked up beneath her breasts down to her waist and turned to throw the asshole into the wall.
“No Sol, stop it. He didn’t do anything wrong I asked him to.” She jumped off the table and grabbed my arm. I snatched her bag up from the chair and took her hand, dragging her from the room and outside into the cool night air.
I didn’t say a word to her as I helped her into the car and walked around to the other side where the driver was waiting to let me in. She kept giving me looks from beneath lowered lids but I ignored her. I was too pissed to talk for the first five minutes as we drove through the busy streets to the outskirts of town where our home was.
My body was strung tight and my heart was halfway to my lungs as I looked away from her. Words of anger burned a hole in my tongue and it took massive control on my part not to yell at her for being so fucking irresponsibly stupid. Did she have any idea the danger she’d been in? Or had I shielded her so well all these years that she really was that innocent?
“What were you doing in that place Alexandra?” My voice was very well contained, not giving away even a hint of what I was feeling inside. “That place was filthy.” I clenched my fists and looked out the window away from her again.
I didn’t trust myself any longer. A few months ago I would’ve given her the riot act and got her promise that she wouldn’t go there again; now I’m not sure what the hell to expect. She’d snuck out to go there, which meant she knew I wouldn’t approve. That meant she was outright disobeying me, defying me even. Unacceptable.