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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
PAYTON
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Two weeks. It’s been two weeks since I felt Knox’s lips on mine. Two weeks of pretending we feel nothing for one another while avoiding eye contact.
We fail and I’m sure my blood pressure is off the charts after catching him staring at me in meetings and around the office.
Once he reached for my hand under the table and squeezed it. I nearly cried.
I have fallen for this man.
“Payton—” he said one day when I was in his office.
“Don’t.” I shook my head.
Then I stepped closer, and he shook his head and turned away.
Push pull. Push pull. We both deserve an award for resisting one another and not crossing the line.
The entire thing has been horrible.
But I did tell Molly. I had to tell someone. She’s my best friend and is hardly going to ring my boss or Ward Montgomery and destroy our lives.
“I don’t get it,” Molly said. “Why doesn’t moneybags just pay your dad and give up the job?”
“Don’t be silly,” I replied.
Molly shrugged and sipped her mojito. The following weekend, after Atlas’ party, we’d gone to a local bar and done a full debrief.
“I’ve known him three weeks,” I scoffed. But a part of me was hurting inside because it sure felt like something more when we were lying in the bath, and he was holding the piece of pizza for me to bite into.
Or when he held me against the wall of his shower and slammed his cock inside me, his eyes thick with emotion.
I fuck them. Then they go.
But he hadn’t asked me to go. And I don’t think he would have if his father hadn’t been holding this no sex with businesswomen over his head.
The amount of times I’ve wanted to stride down to Ward Montgomery’s office and plant my fists on my hips and tell him he’s keeping the man I lo...like a lot from me. Well, it was more than once.
