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The hair on lanced at me, and I shook my head

I knew better than to look directly at hi rash or desperate

I craved hi since he’d held ht to touch hiers through his hair

It was a horrible ache inside s anyony at being this close to hiain

I kept my head down, but I felt Gideon’s eyes onmyself to focus on the discussion of furniture and the co with someone of the opposite sex

As the car continued its ascent and frequent stops, the number of people in the car dwindled

I was acutely attuned to where Gideon was, aware that he never took elevators this crowded, suspecting and hoping and praying that he’d just wanted to see me, be with me, even if it was only in this terribly impersonal way

When we arrived on the twentieth floor, I took a deep breath and prepared to step out, hating the inevitable separation fro in the world that made me feel truly alive

The doors opened

"Wait"

My eyes closed

I was stopped by the softly rasped co as if I hadn’t heard hiave him any more of myself, even a minute more of my life

But how could I possibly resist? I’d never been able to when it came to Gideon

I stepped aside so that my co- workers could exit

Will frohen I didn’t follow, confused, but Megued him out

The doors closed

I

Gideon waited on the opposite side, radiating expectation and demand

As we cliible need

My breasts swelled and becareedy for hi quickened

He hadn’t even touched lided to a stop

Gideon pulled the key out of his pocket and plugged it into the panel, suspending the car

Then he came to meThere were only inches between us

I keptoxfords

I heard his breathing, deep and quick like mine

I smelled the subtly masculine scent of his skin, and hainst ers linked withmy hands up by my shoulders

"You’re so beautiful," he breathed, nuzzling into my hair

"It hurts to look at you"

"Gideon

What are you doing?" I felt his hunger pouring off hiwith tension

He was aroused, his thick cock a fir into

I wanted hi me

I’d been so e breath

His fingers flexed restlessly between mine, as if he wanted to touchI’d given hi into my flesh

I turned my head to look at it and tensed when I saw it, confused and agonized

"Why?" I whispered

"What do you want froasm? You want to fuck me, Gideon? Is that it? Blow your load insidethose crude words thrown back in his face

"Don’t"

"Don’t call it what it is?" I closedon and act like this is so it’s not"

"I never take it off

I won’t

Ever"

His right hand released mine and he reached into his pocket

I watched as he slid the ring he’d given er, and then he lifted my hand to his mouth

He kissed it, then pressed his lips - quick, hard, angry - to one

The car began its descent

My right hand curled into a fist and I backed away fro hard

Wait

For what?

Chapter 18

When I exited the elevator on the twentieth floor, I was dry-eyed and deterh the security doors and pushed to her feet

"Is everything all right?" I stopped by her desk

"I have no fucking clue

That man is a total head trip"

Her brows rose

"Keep me posted"

"I should just write a book," Iwhy in hell everyone was so interested in ot to my desk, I dropped my purse in the drawer and sat down to call Cary