CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE~ CamillaI sat down at the sleek desk just outside Alex’s office and stared at the empty inbox like it had personally offended me. The chair was slightly too stiff, the monitor slightly too high, and my brain was already spiraling into dangerous territory.Should I text Stephano?I shouldn’t. Obviously.But what if there’s something urgent?Urgent? Like his sudden disappearance? Like the fact that he’d left town without telling his assistant? His assistant. The woman who practically wiped his metaphorical ass for a living.No. No, screw that. He didn’t have the courtesy to let me know he’d be gone, why should I extend him any?I sat up straighter and opened my inbox, forcing my fingers to fly across the keyboard like I had a purpose in life.He’s just a man, I told myself. A man with no manners and a god complex.And a huge cock.I froze.Brain: WHY.Seriously? That was where my thoughts went?I backspaced the word "attached" three times because my fingers had type
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT~ CamillaI couldn’t see past the goddamn tower of files in my arms.Stephano had dumped them on my desk with that smug, condescending smirk of his, like he’d just gifted me a promotion instead of a week’s worth of pure, unfiltered bullshit. Budget breakdowns, Q3 performance reviews, department reports. Elvis never did this to me. Elvis respected personal space. Elvis didn’t assign me mailroom delivery duty like I was a goddamn intern.But no. Stephano was different. Stephano was an asshole with a god complex, a dick too proud of itself, and a vengeance kink aimed squarely at me. This was my life now. Ever since I refused to sign that ridiculous contract, which was just his polished, lawyered-up version of "Be My Desk Slut, Anytime, Anywhere", he'd made it his mission to grind me into dust.And I was doing it. Delivering these fucking files. Trying not to drop them. My arms ached. The top folder was sliding. My heel wobbled.“Son of a bitch,” I hissed under my brea
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN~ StephanoThe second I heard those heels clicking outside my office, my cock twitched like it had fucking sonar. One month. One goddamn month without seeing her, hearing her voice, or smelling that intoxicating perfume she always wore, citrusy, heady, and maddening. I should’ve felt relieved. Peaceful. Free.But instead?I was hard before she even opened the door.I kept my eyes on the document in front of me, pretending I didn’t feel her presence. Pretending I didn’t know it was her. My temporary secretary didn’t even have to announce her, my body already knew. My cock sure as hell did. It swelled behind my zipper like a traitor, rubbing against my thigh, hungry. Desperate.You’re not fucking her again.I’d said it to myself every night since she left. Hell, I’d written it on a sticky note and slapped it on my bathroom mirror. I’d stared into my own goddamn eyes, repeating it like a mantra while I jacked off like a man possessed.But now? Now she was here. And
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX~ StephanoI was halfway through reviewing a procurement report when the knock came. Light. Polite. Annoying.“Come in,” I barked, without looking up.My door creaked open, and the HR girl, what was her name again? Madison? Marilyn? She stepped in like she was about to deliver the news of a death in the family. She clutched a file to her chest like it might protect her.“Sir,” she said with that prim voice HR types liked to use when delivering corporate crap, “I just wanted to inform you that your assistant, Ms. Camilla Whitlock, has formally submitted a month long sick leave request. It’s already been approved by the system. We’ll assign a temporary fill-in until she returns.”I paused mid-sentence. My eyes snapped up.“Camilla Whitlock?”She blinked. “Yes, sir. Is there a problem?”I straightened in my chair, one brow arched. “Problem?” I said, letting out a dry laugh. “No. No problem. She’s free to do as she pleases. Sick leave. Of course.”The girl hesitated, ga
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE~ CamillaI couldn’t feel my legs at first. The only thing I could feel was the sting of concrete pressed into my knees and the way the cold air felt too hot on my face because I couldn’t stop crying. Not cute, single-tear movie crying. Ugly, swollen-face, hiccupping-into-my-elbow crying. The kind that makes strangers look away because they don’t want to be involved.Eventually, I pulled myself up off the sidewalk, knees trembling, mascara smudged halfway to my jawline. I looked like heartbreak on two legs.God.What was I even doing?I flagged down the cab like a ghost, slid into the backseat like someone who didn’t belong anywhere anymore, and tried not to completely fall apart in front of the driver. But the moment we pulled away, the tears came again, hot and angry and so humiliating I wanted to melt into the floor of the car.My thighs were still sticky.Not metaphorically. Not poetically.Sticky. Because apparently Stephano Maddens can’t keep his damn ego, o
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR~ StephanoI slammed the office door shut so hard the fucking windows rattled. I ropped into my chair like gravity had tripled. For a second, I just sat there, chest heaving, fists clenched so tight my knuckles cracked.Fucking women. Fucking Camilla. What the hell was her problem?I raked a hand through my hair, dragging it back roughly, breathing hard. And then I saw it.Her panties, lying there on the floor. A tiny scrap of lace, still twisted from the way I’d peeled it off her ass before bending her over my desk.I stared at them for a long second, my cock throbbing again in my slacks, already half-hard like my body didn’t give a fuck about the fight, about the screaming.Of course it didn’t.It remembered the way she felt around me. Tight. Hot. Goddamn perfect. I shifted in my chair, pissed off at myself for even reacting.She was the best fuck I’d had in years. No question. Not even close. And now she was out there, crying like I’d done something fucking wrong