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I rolled back onto my back and grabbed a pillow. I shoved it between us. “I need a barrier.”
“That’s probably smart.”
I just grunted, grumpy as hell.
An hour later, I was still awake. “Faith?”
It was a long shot that she would be awake still, but to my surprise she answered immediately.
“Yes?”
“I can’t sleep.”
“Neither can I.”
“Why can’t you sleep?” I asked her.
“I’m lying here hoping that you’ll help me justify changing my mind about wanting to have sex with you fourteen hours after I declared to you I would be nothing but professional.”
“You want to have sex with me?” I asked, ever so slightly hopeful.
“Yes, of course. Really, really badly. It’s hard for me too, you know. I’m just as attracted to you as I’ve always been but we can’t just have casual sex all the time and not expect there to be consequences.”
“I know.” I didn’t really want to rehash all the reasons she wasn’t going to have sex with me. “We agreed to stay professional.”
Which we already weren’t doing. We were lying in a bed together on night one of our “be professional as fuck” plan.
She was silent for a second. Then she asked, “So you aren’t going to help me justify it?”
I had no idea what was happening but I liked where we were going. “Do you want me to help you justify it? I feel confident I’d be pretty damn good at justification.”
She nodded. “Yes, I really do.”
“Well, let’s start off with an easy one. You’re still drunk from the bourbon tasting.”
She bit her bottom lip, making me want to soothe the tender flesh with a kiss. “Hmm. Not bad, but I don’t feel drunk at all. I drank a lot of water tonight.”
“Okay, so how about this? We’ve already broken our vow to be professional. If you were working at a different company with a stranger as your new boss and this was your first day on the job, would you let him stay in your room? Share your bed?”
“No, of course not.”
“And yet here I am. If we’ve gone this far, what’s a little more?”
Faith turned her head toward me. “That’s better. I’m listening.”
“I’m a foot and a half away from you and I don’t have any underwear on. It’s only a matter of a little bit of fabric and a few inches from what we’re doing already.”
“Just a few inches?” she asked.
I gave her a slow smile. “You know exactly how many inches.”
Faith turned her whole body now toward mine. “Anything else that could justify this?”
“We could call it closure.”
“Closure?” Faith looked intrigued.
I nodded. “We didn’t get to say goodbye that morning when Cash was banging on the door. We should have been able to wake up, have slow delicious leisurely morning sex and part on good terms. We never got closure.”
