เข้าสู่ระบบChapter Nine : Office Politics
Nova POV
“Sir?”
Did he just say what I think I heard?
“I don’t repeat myself.”
Usually, when a character says this in a novel, it ends with the male’s hand wrapped around the female’s throat like a choking necklace while she writhes beneath him.
But this is an office space and not just any office space. The room is decked with cameras, and the walls are transparent glass.
As much as I identify as a closeted freak, there are limits to the risks I’m willing to take, and any form of pleasure without proper protection might lead to regret.
“We are in a public environment, Mr. Calloway,”
I tried pleading, Maybe that would work.
“If memory serves me right…”
His fingers tapped rhythmically against the Elegant golden cufflinks on his other wrist, his gaze locked on me like I’m prey he’s about to devour.
Under other circumstances, my panties would be in a wet bunch, but right now, I feel anything but pleasure.
“That didn’t stop you the last time, Ms. Hart. And please, don’t tell me you’re shy.”
Oh, boy… I deserved punishment for drenching him with coffee and creamy pasta, but this — this is not what I imagined when I pictured the consequences of my actions earlier.
This is not the time to form uptight and holy. I already gave him a blowjob once; no amount of pretense or shyness can save me from his clutches.
“How about we do this when we get home?”
A girl can hope, right? Besides, negotiations aren’t supposed to hurt.
“The coffee stains and accident didn’t happen at home, now did they?”
“Grant, please—”
He held up a hand to silence me. I swallowed heavily, dreading the words about to come out of his mouth.
“It’s Mr. Calloway if you work under me. I don’t mix business with familiarity.”
Really? Isn’t it supposed to be mix business with pleasure..? which is exactly what he’s doing? Beggars can’t be choosers, for real.
“Now, since you feel too important to kneel and take the punishment you deserve, maybe it’s best I let HR handle this. You can go.”
HR? As in Human Resources? As in Aaron Smith? the same man who publicly humiliated me and is hell-bent on making my life in this office a living hell?
Hell. No.
A blowjob caught on camera in a transparent office doesn’t seem like a bad idea compared to being at the mercy of a demonic devil like Aaron Smith.
I quickly moved between his spread legs and knelt, my hands nervously working at the heavy leather belt holding his trousers.
You only live once. You only die once.
“It’s my utmost pleasure to take you in my mouth, Mr. Calloway.”
He smirked smugly, his grey eyes twinkling with mischief. Shivers ran down my spine.
“Who said anything about taking me in your mouth?”
His voice locked me in place, making me hyperaware of his closeness. That smile, intensely masculine and every inch of him screamed Alpha energy.
He tapped a button almost hidden beneath his desk, and the lights in his office dimmed. Before I could figure out how, he clicked another, and blinds slid into place from nowhere, covering the glass and creating a reinforced shield of privacy.
“Now… where did I stop?”
I swallowed again, still on my knees between his legs.
His large hand cupped the side of my head. I almost leaned into the warmth, but I knew better than to give in while danger lurked around it.
“Yes. Pleasing me.”
He smiled darkly, his thumb pressing my lower lip down while his other fingers circled my cheek slowly. It was almost sweet — almost.
“How about you show me your tits? Let’s see what we have there.”
The heat in my reddened cheeks, whether from embarrassment or expectation, it crawled down to my pussy, and I could already feel it getting wet.
My switch from nervous to horny in this office needs to be studied.
Ignoring the shy voice in my head, I unbuttoned my sweater to reveal the tank top underneath, folding it up immediately.
My half bra was in full view. Before I could take my breasts out, his voice stopped me.
“Good girl.”
Like a switch being flipped, Sultry Nova came out in full force.
I bit the edge of my lower lip slowly, pushing my chest upward. I wanted his hands on me.
“Yes, sir,” I moaned in a voice I didn’t know I had. I guess the right mood can do a lot to a reserved person like me.
“And good girls get rewarded.”
This is a dream come true. He is about to reward me. I get to enjoy his praise.
“Yes Sir .”
His large hand caressed my hair in response.
“Good.”
His calloused hand slipped into my bra to cup my breasts. Once exposed to the cool air, my nipples puckered instantly.
Twisting one between his thumb and forefinger, I couldn’t help but moan loudly.
This felt better than any self-pleasuring I’d done.
I threw my head back, the pleasure too much to endure in silence. My moans spilled out, threatening to escape the office.
Grant swapped focus from one nipple to the other, his tugs getting rougher, exactly how I liked it. God knows I hate it slow.
The wetness between my legs demanded attention, but when my hand moved toward it, he slapped it away.
“I do the touching.”
His no-nonsense voice was steady and clear, unlike mine which were clouded with lust. I only nodded.
He swiftly unbuckled his belt, releasing his hardened, thick cock. It sprang free, enjoying its release.
The tip was red, thick, and glistening with precum. Before I could guess his next move, he pushed it into the tight ridge between my breasts.
“Hold them together and don’t release them until I say so.”
I aimed to please, like the good girl I was. All those eroticas I’d devoured had prepared me for this.
I adjusted so he could slide in and out with no discomfort.
“Good girl.”
Before I could moan, the door handle rattled.
Grant didn’t stop. He kept moving between the warm ridge of my breasts.
Maybe they’d give up when they saw the locked door.
Also… where was his secretary?
And Mr. Smith?
No one in this office would just walk in without knocking, right?
The pleasure between my legs intensified. I guided my breasts tighter around him, matching his pace.
Just as I was about to get lost in the haze, keys jingled in the lock. Before I could process, the door swung open.
“Surprise!!”
A dramatic, feminine voice rang out.
CHAPTER FIFTY SIXIVIN POVShe was in my car, Nalayna is alive, breathing and wrapped in my security jacket with her shoulder against the window and her hand still holding the other girl's even in sleep because Nala, even a shadow of herself was still Nala, still holding onto whatever she had decided to hold onto with everything she had left.I drove because that was the only option besides pulling her into my arms and I did not look at her in the mirror anymore because every time I looked at her in the mirror something happened to my ability to operate a vehicle safely and I needed to operate a vehicle safely right now.Fifteen whole days.I kept landing on that number like a sore spot you kept pressing without meaning to, fifteen days of just existing while all my thoughts and action raveled around a girl i was supposed to ignore, a girl that should mean nothing to me but apparently my world is a meaningless and faded white and black, she happens to be the splash of high definition
CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE NALA POVI don't know how long I cried on him.But it was long enough that my legs stopped working properly and he was doing most of the holding up without making it a thing. It was Long enough that his shirt was wet and I had moved past caring about that somewhere around the third wave of it. Also long enough that the crying stopped being about any one specific thing and became about all of it at once, the room and the sessions and the fever and the gate and Ethan's voice and the man in the good coat and thirty minutes and all of it, every single day of it coming out in the grey morning air against Ivin's chest.He didn't say anything.Didn't shush me or pat my back in that performative way people patted backs when they were uncomfortable with crying and wanted it to stop. He just held on to me with both arms, they were solid and warm and completely still the way only Ivin could be still, like he had decided this was where he was and nothing was moving him from
CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR IVIN POV (contd)Relief was too small a word for something that started in my chest and moved outward until I could feel it in my hands. Relief was what you felt when you found a lost object. This was something categorically different from that and I was standing in a room in a port warehouse at 5am finally looking at it directly.I was in love with her.Not in the general direction of love. Not the early proximity of it. Fully, completely, irrevocably in love with a stubborn sassy reckless redheaded woman who had walked into my life as a debt and dismantled every wall I had built since I was nineteen years old and hadn't even noticed she was doing it.I was going to have to sit with that.Later.Right now I crossed the room and crouched in front of her and put my hands on her face as carefully as I had ever put my hands on anything in my life and she closed her eyes and leaned into my palms and the sound that came out of her was so small and so completely wrecked
CHAPTER FIFTY THREEIVIN POVGabriel sent the coordinates at 4:47am.I was already in the car.I don't remember the process of me leaving the building and getting into the car. I don't remember the drive from the estate or putting on my jacket or checking my weapon but I remember the coordinates arriving on my screen and then I remember being in motion because staying still was no longer something my body was willing to negotiate with.Fourteen days.I had been counting without meaning to count.The way you counted something you were trying not to think about because the number kept getting larger and every time it got larger it meant another day she was somewhere I hadn't found yet and the rooms kept being empty and the leads kept being wrong and at some point in the last fourteen days something had happened to me that I hadn't fully looked at directly yet because looking at it directly required admitting what it meant.I was terrified.For the first time in my adult life, but it was
CHAPTER FIFTY TWONALA POVThe room they put me in while they waited for the handler smelled like industrial cleaning fluid trying to cover something older underneath it and failing completely, it smelled awful.I sat on the edge of a cot that had probably seen too many people's worst moments and stared at the wall and thought about nothing because nothing was the only thing my thoughts came up with nowadays.The handler came in twenty minutes later with a bag.He set it on the cot beside me without looking at my face. People had stopped looking at my face.I had noticed that. When you stopped being a person to someone they stopped looking at your face because faces were the part that complicated things and complications were bad for business."Get changed," he said, nodding at the bag.I looked at it.But I didn't move."Get changed." He repeated coldly in the same tone of someone who had said the same words in the same room to too many people and had run out of any version of patien
CHAPTER FIFTY ONENALA POVThere was a version of me that would have counted the turns as the van took another thorn.She would have been pressing her ear to the truck wall, memorizing the sounds outside, calculating distance from time and speed, building an escape plan out of nothing the way she had always built everything, out of nothing, out of stubbornness, out of the deep irrational belief that her brain plus her mouth plus her refusal to accept any situation as final was enough to get her out of anything.That version of me felt like someone I had read about once.Someone fictional.I sat in the dark of the truck with my shoulder against the cold metal wall and felt every pothole in my ribs and my face and every other place that had been keeping records for days and I did not count the turns. I did not press my ear to anything. I sat and breathed and watched the dark and thought about noth







