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Before He Was My Boss. Chapter 52
Aurélie Tess Blackwood. I felt every ounce of confidence I'd managed to muster that morning diffuse into thin air.My words tumbled out in a mess. "I...I don't know what to say..." My face flushed, and the air between us thickened into something I couldn't push through.He raised an eyebrow, his gaze pinning me exactly where I stood. "What are you so sorry about?""I...uh...I don't know..." My lungs felt constricted, like the oxygen was being quietly removed from the elevator one breath at a time."Speak." His voice was firm. Not loud. Just firm, in the way that left no room for anything else.I took a shaky breath that helped nothing. "I don't know what to—""I don't remember authorising you to cancel my meeting.""I didn't," I blurted. "Marcus did." My eyes darted sideways like a trapped animal that already knew there was no exit."Mhmm." The sound sat in the air between us. Heavy. Unconvinced. "Did he?"My heart hammered."Look at me."I did. I met his gaze and immediately regrett
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No notice. No termination emails.I rose off the bed, relief washing over me like a wave.The shower was quick. I didn’t do too much with the outfit. But it was different. Daring. Luring. Professional and risqué in equal measure, in a way that made me stand in front of the mirror a little longer than necessary.A confidence I didn’t know I had left started to build.Because if he wanted to fire me, he would have by now. I would have woken up to that mail.Because today wasn’t going to be about him. Today would be different.I was done with the emotional rollercoaster over a man who wouldn’t dare admit to the things that made him human. When I did — I admitted it. I did want him. Maybe I still did. But I refused to give him power over how my entire day went.I was done being the try-hard.Mike wanted to start something. He hadn’t been vocal about it but I knew it the way you know things that are said in the space between words. And if that was what it took to completely erase the memor
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Aurélie Tess Blackwood.I stepped out of the office without a care in the world. Because even if I had no job to return to after this, at least I’d said my piece.And he’d listened.Because it wasn’t okay to walk over just anyone. I wouldn’t have him think it was acceptable to continuously hurt people’s feelings and feel nothing.I cancelled his second meeting, because I knew better.I walked out to get some air after that. The office had grown too constricted, too full of him, too full of everything I’d just said and couldn’t unsay. So I grabbed my phone and my bag and when I ran into Mike in the corridor and he offered to grab lunch, I thought to myself — why not?I agreed without hesitation, because the distraction wasn’t just a want. It was a need.Mike had that way about him — natural, easy, warm in all the ways that cost nothing. He had a way of making me forget things I constantly worried about, of making the air around him feel lighter just by being in it. He was the nice one.
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She slowly arched her back off the couch in a manner that was supposed to look like seduction to anyone but seemed performative to me. Clean, practised, emotionally evacuated.Good. That was exactly what I needed.Her lace slipped smoothly off her shoulders, pooling at her feet, leaving her in nothing but a thin strip of underwear. She reached for the bottle of Scotch on the table beside her, poured a measured amount into the glass with the casual ease of someone who had done this beforeShe walked up to me. Slowly. Deliberately. Each step an affirmation of something I didn’t care enough to name.She pushed me down to the couch before lowering herself in front of me and I felt my body respond before I gave it permission.My cock jerked violently in approval seeing her in that position.I took the glass from her, gulping down the liquid like it wasn’t meant to be consumed.This is it. This is exactly what I needed. The burn. Just sex. Just bodies.Not her.This is enough. This will alw
Before He Was My Boss. Chapter 48
“What else do you want me to say?” I asked. “That I enjoyed it? Because I sure as hell didn’t.”“Yeah, right.”I looked up then. Really looked at her for the first time since she’d walked in. “Excuse me?”“That you didn’t enjoy it.” She held my gaze. Steadier than I’d expected. “From what I remember, you did the exact opposite. Yes, I kissed you first. But you kissed me back. You quite literally ate me up.” A beat. “So don’t sit there and try to make it look like it was some kind of inconvenience you tolerated.”I said nothing. I held the quiet between us. Let it sit. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”“Then tell me, Mr. Reynor.” Her hand moved — a small, frustrated gesture between the two of us. I watched it. “Because from where I’m standing, you’ve been punishing me since the day I walked in here, and I still don’t understand what I did that was so unforgivable.”She waited. Her eyes pressed on mine like something physical.“I don’t owe you an explanation,” I said finally a
Before He Was My Boss. Chapter 47
Donovan Reynor. That gala night had probably been one of the most terrifying, exhilarating moments of my life.Why did she kiss me?More importantly, why did I let her?I turned that question over and over in my head the way you press a bruise, testing how deep the damage went. It was stupid. Reckless. And yet there I was, standing in the middle of my own carefully constructed life, with the ghost of her mouth still on mine and no clean explanation for how it got there.What was I slowly turning into?Aurélie needed to be stopped.The part that sat heaviest in my chest and refused to be reasoned with was that none of the anger I felt was directed at her. Not a single thread of it. Every last drop had looped back around and landed exactly where it belonged.On me.For letting it happen. For kissing her back. For standing there in the dim office light with my hands on her, not pulling away nearly fast enough.I hated it. Hated the softness of it, the warmth. Hated that I’d woken up the
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