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"Did she say 'talent show'?" Krysta asked, saying the last tords as if she were talking about feces

"Oh, yes she did She said talent show The talent show at the Escape Shores Caround in Verily, Maine is the absolute, hands down,professional talent show you’ve ever been to Didn't I take you?" She and Krysta had been friends for years

Krysta shook her head "Nope If it's in late August, I'm at my mom's for a family reunion"

"Then that explains it" Lydia shook her head in reatest show on earth My brothers, Dan and Adam, are famous for their nose ust "Do I want to ask?"

"Of course you want to ask!" said Lydia "You take a mini marshmallow and stick it up one nostril, and then your partner – "

"Partner? You have a partner in this?" Krysta grew usted by the minute Lydia reveled in it

"And then your partner," she continued, ignoring the interruption, "stands about twenty feet away, , and you close the nostril that doesn’t have the marshmallow in it" Lydia’s voice developed a nasal tone as she demonstrated the rabbed her stomach

"and you blow as hard as you can, shoot the marshmallow in an arc, across the air, and the other person stands there with their mouth open – "

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" shouted Krysta, waving her hands wildly as if fanning herself "OK, OK, I get the point So that’s what passes for talent in the middle of nowhere Maine"

"That’s pretty much theclaim to fame for awell, yeah" Lydia stumbled over that one

Krysta sat up on her elbows, leaned across the table, looked Lydia dead in the eye and said, "How in the hell did someone like you from someplace like that end up in Boston?"

Lydia leaned in as if to tell her a secret, waving her closer, cupping her palm over her mouth, and whispered, "That’s exactly why I ended up in Boston"

A zing of thrill shot through her as she waited for her elevator and watched the doors open slowly, finding Matt already on board That zing shouldn't have thrilled her Horror at her own inappropriate feelings for her boss should have been her response, but instead it was her clit that do with a fire of excite her pulse race and her heart sla her hot breath as it escaped

"Morning," he said, his rin Lydia had avoided hi she could just – what? Forget it? He had co, but she had been so flustered she had ju off, too unco," she replied What she wanted to say was Kiss me Or, worse, Takewould have to do

Everything about this man turned her on, from the hint of aftershave he wore, to the way his biceps pressed against his oxford shirt Those aro, and his body rested in a relaxed, but aware state, knees slightly bent, hand holding a briefcase, eyes perceptive and watching her As she stepped into the elevator she hoped no one would join the like an answered prayer

Out of habit, she reached over and pressed the floor button, feeling his eyes crawl over her, like a hot laser she could feel in every pore A flush covered her cheeks and she felt a cli in an enclosed space with him, the air electric with the tension of touches not yet coave it right back, his eyes intent on her, body tight now, shifting his weight toward her, surveying every inch of her skin with his eyes

And then – a jolt Black Disoriented, a little screa wildly, searching to grab onto a wall, or so the side of the elevator, she spread her hands out against the side, now attuned to her surroundings

Lydia stood bathed in pure darkness, the only light in the elevator shining froht on the panel of buttons A flicker of ency button, setting off an alarm, a loud bell that filled the tiny elevator's interior with enough noise to drive her h noise – unfortunately – to drown out the pounding of arousal and overwhelm in her body, in her veins, in her –

"You okay, Lydia?" Matt asked, his rich baritone like a caress in the dark,hi sounds, and realized he was trying to find her in the dark Well, fuck es, touches, hopes, fantasies Who didn’t want to have sex in an elevator at least once in her life? And here she ith opportunity screa her senses, and then she felt Matt's hand on her breast, soft and searching, as she stifled a moan

"Oh, there you are" He see – or, she hoped, he knew exactly what he was doing – and Lydia shifted just slightly, out of instinct Not that she didn’t want his hand on her there, and in fact shetouched in such a er as her boss, her boss in the job that she had so wanted for the last two years, and now she began to feel so trapped in a coer

Boldness The word bold was the last word anyone would ever use to describe Lydia Fierce? Sure Intelligent? Of course Determined? Absolutely

Bold? Overt? Sensual? She wasn’t a risk taker Not by nature and not by volition Yet here she stood with chance screa inside her tipped She reached for Matt and found the top button of his shirt, a sprinkling of chest hair under her fingertips Feeling her way up over his throat to the slight roughness of his clean shaven face, up to his nose, she stood on tiptoe, and kissed him