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"That’s it," I said through panting breaths, closer and closer, feeling her start to tighten around et there?"

"So close," she said, eyelids fluttering closed, teeth buried in her botto her own slick fingers already there The chaise creaked beneath us and I briefly considered the possibility that itus in differentover her while weeven rea

I shifted my eyes back to her as she said ainst ht Everything felt hot and electric, my heart pounded insideclose your eyes I’ as I ca at her waist and fingers tightening there, feeling the hot flush of blood pu back at ed to pull e us both on the settee Sara was pliant, boneless, and sh

"I’ up to push the sweaty hair from her forehead

"You’re welcorinned, closing my eyes while I tried to catch ain

Several moments of silence stretched on Car horns blared on the streets below, a helicopter sounded sorown darker when I felt the cushion shift, and I looked up, seeing Sara stand and begin gathering her clothes

"What plans do you have for the rest of the evening?" I asked, rolling toho h "Certainly worked up an appetite"

She gently brushedon the floor to find her other shoe I didn’t even re them off "That’s not what this is"

I frowned I suppose I should have felt so this into needlessly emotional territory But she was such a mystery to me Obviously inexperienced, obviously naïve But she’d co her trust in ahtened, pulled a brush froht, her face a bit more flushed than usual, but other than that Sara looked perfectly presentable

I’d have to try harder next tiot socleared the head better than a screao pick up his dry cleaning afterward Monday ed in the nine o’clock depart

The other executives and their assistants had finally arrived to the new office, and because soh, ere inundated with the prospect of twenty newclients I was buried On the upside, I had very little time to fantasize about Andy-shaped voodoo dolls and castration techniques

But in between the frenzy--walking fro to the next, a trip to the restrooht with Max, his hard, nad body behind me, my limbs heavy with delicious exhaustion and his hands fisted inclose your eyes I’m about to come"

Despite how much fun it had been, I’d felt off for a couple of hours on Saturday htly embarrassed that I’d actually done it It occurred toup in so to let him do what he wanted to me in front of hundreds of mirrors where it was very likely no one would be able to hearwas, even below that thin layer of mortification, I knew I’d never felt e as that was, and like I could ask hi in htest bit surprised or judgmental when I’d laid out my terms in his office Didn’t even blink when I told hi sx in any bed

I sat back atmy eyes as the memory returned from the last tio We’d stopped bothering to argue over his schedule, or mine Instead, the lack of inti to cover the roo up at his office late one night in nothing but a long coat and heels But I’d have been better off showing up wearing a yellow duck suit, for how embarrassed he was to seeover my shoulder

Maybe he said that because he could only have sex with other wo anything, I’d turned and left

Later that night, he ca to take his tiood

It hadn’t been

My eyes blinked open, as the reality of everything seemed to hit ood, and Andy had only ever made me feel izing for taking whatever the hell I wanted

Although I still craved hi that I would hear fro hohen it would happen for most of the week But when lunch rolled around on Friday, and he still hadn’t contacted ht just decide to not text o, or how to back away gracefully In reality, the way I’d set it up raceful way to back out would be to siement that was so tenuous it could just evaporate

Still, I wanted to see hiain

I put my phone in my desk drawer, deter But ten n, and with the s still playing on a loop inside o back toto the conference roo speed It was okay for me because I’d seen the deck beforehand, but I could tell the newly arrived junior executives wanted to throw up their lunches

"Slon, Bennett," I came up and said to him quietly

He snapped his attention to me, his teues or not, he still scared the hell out of mentation too fast," I explained "You just finished it yesterday, when these guys were on a plane Let thehtly and looked back to the screen I could al to ten in his head as he let them read the slide, and I looked across the table at Chloe She atching hi I doubted Bennett had any sympathy for the RMG employees who had just uprooted their entire lives and were expected to have ures in twenty-four hours

"Good?" he asked, clicking to the next slide without waiting for an answer