That was what I had been reduced to by a beautiful young woman with big brown eyes. Hiding out in my office all day and then skulking around to go hide out in my room all night.
The lamb stew tasted incredible, as all of Michael’s food always did, and by the time I had gotten something in my stomach, I knew I’d been acting stupid all day. I wasn’t some mindless thing who couldn’t control his urges. So I wanted Tia. That wasn’t a reason to lose my mind. I simply had to accept we couldn’t be together.
There were millions of women in the world. I could be with any one of them. Problem solved.
Happy I’d gotten my focus back, I took my dinner dishes to the kitchen and headed back to my room. A good night’s sleep would do wonders for me, and tomorrow I’d be back to my normal self again.
“Mr. Allen? I mean, Nico?”
Just the sound of her voice made my cock harden, and I looked behind me to see Tia standing in the main hallway. Her hair up in a ponytail and wearing pink yoga pants with a white T-shirt, she looked completely fuckable, like some perfect wet dream standing just feet away from me.
“Hi, Tia. Everything okay?”
With a smile, she said, “Oh, yeah. I was just bored and thought I’d stretch my legs. I hope I didn’t wake you up.”
“No, not at all. I was thinking the same thing. Long day at the office. Sitting all day. You know.”
Christ, I used to be able to charm women merely with a smile and a few words. Now I sounded like a pimply-faced teenager who had never had sex. What power did this woman possess over me?
“I guess running your own business is pretty stressful. I don’t think I’d be able to do it.”
And now we’d transitioned to talking about work. The next topic would be the weather and then I’d be listed in the hall of fame of losers when it came to women. People would walk by my exhibit in that sad and pathetic museum and shake their heads at how pitiful a grown man could be in the presence of a beautiful woman.
“I’m sure you would. It just takes discipline.”
I’d never been this close to woman I wanted to sleep with and said such mundane things. She probably regretted her decision to take a walk tonight.
Tia took a few steps toward me and stopped before taking a deep breath. “I’m not going to sleep anytime soon. If you wanted to have that talk you mentioned earlier, that could be nice.”
I knew I shouldn’t take her up on her offer. I’d told myself I wasn’t going to do anything stupid. Yet having her this close and being able to smell the vanilla scent of her shampoo as it wafted up to my nose made saying no impossible.
“That would be nice. Do you want to go to the kitchen? There’s some lamb stew left, if you’re hungry.”
Tia took another step and stopped right in front of me. Looking up at me with those big brown eyes, she said, “If you want. Or if there’s somewhere else you’d be comfortable, we could go there too.”
I didn’t say a word before I took her hand and led her to my room. Red flags were flying up in my head all over the place, but I didn’t care. I wanted to feel this beautiful woman beneath me screaming my name in the heat of passion.
Closing the door to my room, I thought about talking but the truth was I didn’t want to talk. I wanted to fuck this woman. Tia had been on my mind all day, and now that she’d given me the signal she wanted me too, I didn’t want to hesitate.
She smiled up at me, her eyes wide and looking so innocent that for a split second, I wondered if this was right. Tia was my niece’s nanny, and that technically made her my employee. I’d sat through enough seminars on proper workplace behavior to know I shouldn’t act on my desires.
That thought flew out of my mind when she pressed her palms to my chest and need rushed through me. Right or wrong, I was having the nanny tonight.
I took her beautiful face in my hands and kissed her perfect mouth. My cock stiffened so it pressed against my stomach, making an ache form in my balls. It had been too long since I enjoyed a night with a woman. All work and no play made for a very horny Nico.
When I pulled away, she asked, “So I guess you don’t want to talk?”
Her sexy smile told me that was meant to be playful, so I shook my head and answered, “Not tonight.”
She trailed her fingertips over my ribs and down to my waist. Staring up into my eyes, she slowly unfastened my belt and opened my pants.
The nanny wasn’t so innocent after all.
“Can I confess something?” she asked as she slid her hand under my boxer briefs.
With the first touch of her fingers on my cock, I had a hard time forming an answer to her question, so I nodded and closed my eyes to revel in the feel of her stroking me.
“At first I didn’t like you at all, but once the mean guy turned into the nice guy I was talking to in the kitchen today, this was all I could think about.”