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“Oh well, I guess I’m on my own for the evening.”
No big deal. One Friday night of sitting home and relaxing is fine. Taking my time, I change into shorts and a tank top. My apartment is very warm, even though I shut off the heat a few days ago. It always gets like this in springtime. Plopping down on the couch, I start scrolling through the movie menu on my television. As I’m hoping there must be something good to watch, my phone chirps with an incoming text.
C: How was your meeting with Pearce?
It’s Cindy. She probably wants to know if I survived since most of my other coworkers already got icy receptions from Chase. I decide not to mention how we had dinner together, and instead tell her that he was not so nice during my visit to his office. It’s what she expects me to say anyway. Why should he show me preferential treatment?
C: Even with his steely exterior, he is gorgeous, don’t you agree?
M: Yes, he is very handsome, but remember, he’s our boss.
I wonder if she knows about his disability. It didn’t mean anything to me, but sometimes people get the wrong idea about someone who is disabled—that they feel they need to act a certain way around them. They’re people; a disability doesn’t change that.
C: I know, but he still is very fuckable.
M: CINDY, are you serious? You have a boyfriend.
C: So? I can dream, can’t I?
M: I’m busy, so enjoy your dreams tonight when you go to bed. Make sure you don’t scream out Pearce’s name when Ian is on top of you.
C: Very funny. I would never. I’ll talk to you later.
Cindy might have a master's in biology, but she sometimes acts like a teenager. Just like I told Chase despite his denial, women did look at him all the time.
Chapter 2
It’s Monday morning, and I’m tired. I went out Saturday night with my friend, Hunter, and his fiancé, Rory. After club hopping until four in the morning, we stayed out even later because we went to get something to eat. By the time I rolled into my apartment, the sun was rising.
Then on Sunday, I met up with Steven and spent several hours at his apartment before he needed to take care of some paperwork at his restaurant. Admittedly, he is a hard habit to break, so when he texted me in the early afternoon, I had to go. It had also been a while since I last had sex, and Steven was wonderful in bed. The four orgasms I had can attest to that.
I should have gone to bed earlier last night, but I was at Steven’s until nine, and by the time I got home, showered, ate, and went to bed, it was well after eleven.
I hope I don’t see Chase today, but I just might. Although he likes to hide in his office, I have several reports that I need to compile and get him to sign off on. When I arrive at work, the office is again quiet. I get a cup of coffee before sitting at my desk to work on the file I shoved in the drawer on Friday.
By eleven, I’m finished, and I buzz Chase’s secretary, Joan, to ask if I can come up for signatures. She tells me that he’s available and that she’ll let him know I’m on my way. Just as I’m ready to go, Edgar asks me to assist him with some calculations he insists that he needs immediately done.
By the time I get upstairs, it’s fifteen minutes later than planned. Passing Joan, I gently knock on the door and hear Chase snap at me to come in. Shit, he sounds angry with me.
“Megan, it does not take fifteen minutes to get up here. I’ve been waiting for you, and now you’ve broken my concentration.”
“I’m sorry. One of the techs needed me to help with some calculations.”
“The proper thing to do then calls and let me know you’ll be late.”
“Again, I’m sorry, but I have the paperwork for signatures now.”
He practically tears the folder out of my hand and starts paging through the results. I wonder what he’s thinking when he shakes his head as he examines one.
“This doesn’t look correct. Did you run this more than once?”
“It was run four times by two different techs.”
“Is the information in the database?”
“The testing is, but the results will only be input once you sign off.”
“I need these ran again. This seems off.”
