All Chapters of Taste Me Like It's Our Last Day On Earth : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Phoenix His office is massive. I step inside and just — stand there for a second, taking it in. Floor to ceiling windows, the whole city laid out beneath them like it belongs to him. Dark wood, clean lines, not a single thing out of place. There’s a framed photo on his desk and I drift toward it before I can stop myself. It’s him on a tennis court. White shirt, white shorts, racket in hand, caught mid-laugh at something outside the frame. He looks light. Easy. Nothing like the man commanding a room full of interns twenty minutes ago, nothing like the Victor Crowe I’ve watched in interviews and magazine covers my whole life. Like outside of all of this, when no one who matters is watching, he actually knows how to be happy. I stare at it longer than I should. The drawer beside the desk is half open. I should leave it alone, but I open it out of curiosity and immediately wish I hadn’t. Condoms. An open box of them. Several already missing. I pick one up. Read

Phoenix A man who keeps condoms in his office obviously keeps a fuck toy close. And I didn’t need a seer to tell me who Victor Crowe fucks in his office. Octavia Willow is going to be a problem. I knew it the moment she walked into Victor’s office this morning and looked at me like something she needed to scrape off her shoe. I knew it when Victor handed me to her team like a file he needed off his desk. And I know it now, standing in the middle of the creative floor while she addresses the team with me positioned slightly apart from everyone else, like a visual reminder that I don’t belong here. She sees me as a threat. One she believes might come between her and whatever she has going on with Victor. He invited me to his office, something he’s never done with any other female intern. “This is Phoenix Veyl,” Octavia says to the room. Not introducing me. Presenting me. The way you present evidence. “She’ll be joining the team as an intern. But unlike some of you who worked reall