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Ben snorted “Places you can only dream about now, ball-and-chain”
Taking his coffee, he headed for his corner office He balanced the cup with his briefcase as his phone buzzed with several incoes He had forty-five minutes to review and fix that contract, and then he had awith Johnson in Matt’s office that would take up the hour before his ten o’clock If the intern hadn’t totally screwed it up, he could have her run the contract over to Senecorp so they could digest it before he arrived
The desk where Alice was normally stationed, a few paces from the door of his office, was vacant The baby intern had escaped froh chair or the Cheerios hadn’t been sufficiently entertaining Setting aside his briefcase, he took a seat at his desk, his eye on the contract sitting neatly in the middle of it
When he had a free weekend, he spent it immersed in sweet female ass and Irish whiskey, his reward for eeks often eighty-plus hours long He worked hard, played hard, with exacting demands in both areas of his life Which hy Alice’s voice had set him off
The revisions for the Senecorp contract will be done by the intern Personnel has hired Don’t worry She’s good And don’t curse when you get this e
“I’ll fucking curse if I want to,” he nizant of her superhero hearing, he’d have toned it down in the kitchen, except he hadn’t realized she’d arrived as early as he had this
As he scanned the contract, his brow eased Well, hell The revisions were damn near perfect Soe, keeping his originalintact Not a typo to be found, not even a randoers stained with Juicy Juice His lips quirked Putting the document down, he rubbed a hand over his face
Hell, as the et so worked up about shit like this Yeah, he was an ogre on details, but in the past he’d had a scathing sense of hulances, he knew he and the others had ongoing theories about hiave the hiht now
Still, he had to push down resent about the hollow state of a single guy’s sex life when you were married to the subh Dana was blind, she had the courage and unbridled sensuality of a woman with all her senses intact Ben knew it firsthand, because on one ht, Peter had enlisted his help to make one of her fantasies come true, to be taken by two men at once
All five ement were hardcore sexual Dominants, and four of them had found their perfect submissive match Soul mates, if you believed in that bullshit, and it was hard not to, looking at how they got along with one another Ben reone into the bathroom to clean up, and when he came out, he’d seen her curled inside the curve of Peter’s muscular body His ar and end of everything, his lips cruising over her te soft in her ear Ben felt like an intruder He’d slipped out without another word He didn’t really do cuddling, anyhow
So here he was, four years later, still single That didn’t bug him If he wanted a more serious relationship, he could seek it Yeah,for whiskey and strolling through the Quarter, rather than seeking fe deal His tastes were the h for hi was too redients, a meal he had to eat to be polite, but couldn’t wait to finish and step away from the table
Things had changed, and much as he knew that was the way of the fucked-up world, it didn’t always sit so well It stirred up shit he didn’t want stirred, andhis bowels Hell, o soet his boxers out of their perined that vacation was a stretch of empty beach, nobody on it but him
Christ, was he lonely? He didn’t need down time He needed more up time, juvenile sexual pun intended He’d drive down to Baton Rouge, do an extra session at Club Surreal this week In the past couple years, Surreal had opened a sister club here in New Orleans, appropriately called Club Progeny, but he preferred to go to Baton Rouge when he didn’t want to run into one of the other guys He’d find one of his regulars, or a new sub for a club-only experience Take her on one of his extre her off until she was too shaky to walk
When he was breaking down her shields, opening her up to everything he de the ined was possible, time stopped for hi he’d had when he was doing trial laork, earlier in his career When he felt the steel jaws closing around his opponent, knowing he was the guy with his foot on that spring lever, it was alave him the same sensation, particularly when it was a hostile takeover
Jon had recently observed that Ben was Genghis Khan in a previous life, happy with nothing but conquering Asshole Their h If Jon said sonore it
The light tap of heelsfrom the carpet to the wood floor around the admin desk alerted hih He really wasn’t in the , but he’dat woht out of school and wet behind their ears
Then he glanced out his doorway, and discovered another way tiaze got stuck in full lock
She’d turned to the file cabinets, so he’d missed her face Instead, he saw a classic Audrey Hepburn slilass shape, complete with tailored skirt that nipped off above her knee When she sat down, a hint of thigh would teasethose provocative nylons with the old-fashioned lines up the back, and they were perfectly straight Following the contour of calf, the sweet valley behind the knee, they ran up the back of her thigh and disappeared beneath the snug hold of the skirt Her pale yellow blouse was translucent silk that showed the i him wonder if there were panties in that same butter color beneath the skirt
Her dark blonde hair would fall a little farther than her shoulder blades, but right noas clipped shorter by a wide bronze barrette, a Celtic knot design with a tiny shamrock done in emerald rhinestones As she put the files away, he saell-kept nails, a French manicure hite tips that drew attention to capable, fe familiar about the way she moved