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"Kiss me, Bella." His intense stare was nothing compared to the effect his body brought to mine as he pressed himself further against me.

"No, I will do... no such thing." My words falthered under my breath as I could feel the growing desire between his legs. I slightly push him away on his chest and let my hand linger longer than I intended them to be. "Leave me alone, Joshua. I've had enough of this."

"Have you now." I gulped as my whole body responded to the simple touch of his breath on my neck. "I don't think you have, Bella."

His face altered closer and closer as the tension grew. The temptation too big to deny as I could feel his rapid breathing on my lips. His hands slowly made their way along my body. Caressing my hips all the way too my neck.

"Please, Bella, kiss me." He begged as his thumb stroked my lower lip.

I succumbed under his glamour and gave into my rich desires.

The touch of our lips was enough to make us both go wild like animals. He dominated the kiss and forced me to open my mouth. At the same time he popped open my legs and pressed his leg against my pelvis. I moaned softly as his tongue did something extraordinary to mine all the while his hands were softly teasing the side of my breasts.

My entire head was filled with anticipating thoughts which made me even more desperate for him than I already was.

I could feel his member grow beneath the touch of my leg and I was about to devour it, but he suddenly pulled away.

His ragid breathing was nothing compared to me. I was practicly gasling for air, but I didn't mind. All I could think about was getting his pretty little mouth back on mine.

"Now, was that so hard?" He took a step back and grinned a michievous smile. "All I wanted was a kiss, Bella." He spoke and turned his back towards me.

I've never been so aroused and humiliated at the same time. Left in a state of pure arousel. I was ready to rip his clothes off and have him against the wall.

"Bu-" I gasped and sat down on the nearest seat I could find, staring at the closed frontdoor where Joshua through left. My knees were wobbling like jell-o, nearly making me fall to my knees in a heap of utter desperation.

"What the hell just happened?"

^

The simple thought of last night's heated kiss has me pressing my legs together under my desk.

I didn't need this kind of distraction during work. I've been reading the same sheet for half an hour now. My boss is going to kill me if I haven't finished mt assigned work for today. I already have a cross behind my name for being late this morning, wouldn't want a second cross.

"Miss Woods," my thoughts were interrupted by George standing at my desk. He stood awefully close as he gave me mlre files to look into for today. "Here is some mlre work for you." He laid his hand on my shoulder.

"Sir, I'm already packed." I looked up at him as he laid down the files on my desk.

"I'm sure you'll manage, Bella." The look he gave me spoke booksparts. He disgusts me, it seems as if he thinks that because he stands above me with his payroll that he can undress me with his eyes whenever he desires.

How much I'd love to kick him where the sun doesn't shine is beyond me. Unfortunately, I need this job as much as I need food. A lot.

"Of course, sir." I try not to show the obvious distaste in my voice as I speak to my so called boss, but it's harder than you'd think. I stand up and turn away from him, causing his hand to fall off of my shoulder and onto my desk.

To my utter shock he tightly grabs my arm, pulls me towards him and stands up. I gasp as he towers above me.

"Don't you dare talk to me like that again, I am your boss. Be sure to be respectful next time you open that dirty tramp of yours." He spits at me. I have the urge to wipe his spit off my face, but my other instinct kick in.

I pull my knee up as fast and hard as I can, landing it right in his thunder junk. He lets go of my arm and I immediately swing it at his face. To my utter luck, it lands right on his nose.

"Ahh! Fucking hell!" George hisses at me from his embarrasing position on the ground.

"Fuck you, George. You've been nothing but disrespectful towards me and I'm completely done with your bullshit." I sneer at him as he tries to get up. Damn this feels great.

Thank you, Lucas, for learning me self-defense.

"I'll get you, you whore."

"Pff," I chuckle as he craddles his nose in his hand, looking at me with a hateful look in his eyes. "I look forward to seeing you try."

Quite a few people have huddled together at the entrance to my office, trying to get a look of what's going on inside.

"What's going on in here?!" Jason Stone, my boss's boss, walks in. He looks quite suprised at seeing George on the ground, cradling his junk with blood running out of his nose.

"Miss Woods, please explain." Jason Stone orders as he tells the other workers to get back to work.

"Gladly." I take a step forward and lay one hand on my hip. "This man here, has been harrasing me for the past 6 months and frankly, this whole department has been watching on the sideline as George here tries to grope my ass." The look on Jason's face was calm, yet filled with anger pointed at one of us or both, I couldn't tell. "I really need this job, but if this is what I signed up for then I quit."

"That won't be necessary, miss Woods. Mr.Longwood, you're fired. Get out of my sight." Oh, how long I've longed to see that look on George's face. Thank you, God. Or rather, thank you, Jason.

"Security!" Jason Stone shouts and two man dressed in black show up, ready to take orders from their boss. "Take that man away and be sure he leaves the building and never comes back in."

"Yes, sir." They say and take away the miserable pit that once was my boss.

"Bella, how'd you like to take over George's position for the time being?" Jason Stone asks. It's more a statement than a question, I'm not sure that I can even say no. But that doesn't even cross my mind.

"Yes!" I cough awkwardly at my excitement and try to cover myself from the embarassment. "Of course, I'd be honored, Jason."

"Very well, your office will be next to mine, you'll know where to find me if you need anything." He opens his arms and I walk straight in. "I apologize for all the trouble you had to go through, Bells." He smiles at me, before turning around and walking out of my office, wishing me a good day.

It may seem weird to hug my boss, but I've known Jason since I was a little girl. I met his son in kindergarten, who I've been friends with ever since. Jason always knew I wanted to be in the business branch, so he offered me a job after I got my degree. Of course it's been nothing but a professional relationship at work, but outside of work he was more like a second father to me.

"Mr.Stone!" I hurry to the door and see him turning around, raising one eyebrow. "Thank you. For this opportunity."

"The least I could do, miss Woods." He smiles and gets in the elevator.

I close the door and slide down the wall to the ground. There's some of George's blood laying a feet away from me. I sigh and lay my head on my knees, closing my eyes for a split second to slow down all the adrenaline rushing through my body.

The door next to me suddenly opens as someone barges in, I shreek at the sudden movement. Frightened I cover my heart as Lucas walks in.

"Jesus, Lucas. Would you knock next time. You scared the hell out of me."

"Holy shit, Bells. You kicked ass, girl!" He pulls me off the ground and wraps his arms around me. "I saw George being howled outside by security. His face covered in blood and from the looks of it, some purple balls aswell."

"Yeah, I kicked him in his thunder junk." I giggle as Lucas ruffles my hair. "I'm proud of you, Bells." He says as he kisses the top of my head.

"Learned it from the best." I wink at him and laugh softly.

"I bet you did."

He lets go of me and sits down at my desk. He sighs as he rubs his hand over his face. Now that I look at him I see how tired he really looks.

"Has Chloe been wearing you out?"

"God, you can't even imagine. She's wonderful, but she's woken me up three times last night." He sounds tired of her, but the shimmering in his eyes and the small curves on his lips tell me enough. He wouldn't trade his fiance for the world.

"What'd she want? Some good ol' sex." I tease him.

"I wish." He says laughing at me as he teasingly pushes me away. "She wanted ice cream and waffles."

Chloe, Lucas' fiance, has been pregnant for 6 months and as you can notice, she's been having some midnight cravings for a while now.

"Don't get me wrong, I love her so much, but she send me back to make new waffles because the previous ones were too brown." I laugh as I picture Chloe ordering Lucas around all night.

"What are you doing here, anyway?" Lucas doesn't work in this building, even though his father owns it. He only comes here if he needs something from me, or his father.

"I needed to ask you something, but you weren't picking up your phone. So I thought why not stop by."

"What's the question, buddy?" I sit down on the small chair infront of my desk and lean my head in my hands.

"If you mind accompanying me to uncle Josh's party tonight. Chloe has this girls night or something and she didn't want to cancel that and I really don't want to go alone. 'Cause you know.." he says pointing at his body, "otherwise every girl would throw herself at me." His cocky smile made me burst out into laughter.

"I don't know, Lucas. You know I don't like those fancy parties. I mean-"

"Please, Bells. I'll owe you." He begs me with his puppy face, which he knows I can't resist. "I'll make sure you'll sit next to me during dinner and I won't leave your side all evening."

"Fine." I give in.

"Yes!" He softly cheers, making me chuckle at his childish behaviour.

"You'll be the death of me Lucas Stone." I say as I'm thinking about all the possible things that could go wrong tonight.