Leo
Walking Elizabeth Ward to the elevator, I am satisfied by her happiness and effusive thanks. Dmitri owes me twenty dollars, I managed not only to hire her. I turned her from an angry shrew into a purring contented kitten.
“She was pretty.” The words are spoken the moment the elevator closes and in Italian. I have to be wrong about the jealousy I detect. Yet when I turn it is clear on her face. Her blue eyes are a storm of emotion. “You got what you wanted. You really liked her.”
I am drawn to Alexa, unable to look away from her. From seeing her every emotion and desire on her beautiful face to the brilliant blue of her eyes. I hear her breath catch as she leans back in the chair behind her desk. My hands go flat on her desk to keep from reaching for her.
I respond in English, there can be no chance of misunderstanding. “She is very pretty.” Alexa’s face tightens then her eyes fall from mine. “I did get what I wanted, I always get what I want. I got the best person for the job. That she happens to be a very pretty woman as well means nothing to me. She is now an employee, and I do not fuck employees. Ever.”
Alexa inhales sharply as sapphire blue eyes catch and hold mine. My cock screams for her.
“That is all I do. I fuck, Ms. Clark. No emotions, just pleasure. Long hours, of complete and utter pleasure, is all I want from a woman. Only it is not enough for many women, they get greedy for more than hours, they want days, weeks, months and several even want forever. All I want are the hours.”
Her eyes are glittering sapphires, I want to see her naked in sapphires, a rope of them at her neck, in her ears, between her breasts. A long shuddering breath comes out of her, and I watch in painful fascination as her breasts sway. The ringing phone snaps me out of the thick haze of desire. It reminds me of where I am, and who I’m talking to, at work to my employee, my married employee. Damn her for making me forget.
***
Alexa
Holy shit. I squirm in my chair as I watch Leo stalk back into his office. My body is still in a very painful state of heightened desire. I snatch the ringing phone, wanting to kill the person on the line for interrupting. “What?”
“Alexa?” Natalie sounds stunned.
Shit, did I really just answer the phone like that? “What?”
Leo’s back, he punches the button for the elevator before turning to me. “I am meeting Dmitri Markhoff for lunch. Finish the notes from the meetings and make the donation of the three hundred thousand as promised. You look awful, once you have completed those tasks go home and get some sleep.”
After what happened, him telling me I look awful feels like a slap across the face. When I look up, he’s gone. The phone is buzzing in my ear. I hang up as I close my eyes and bury my face in my hands. What the hell is happening to me?
“Alexa,” I look up to see Natalie snapping her fingers at me. “Hey, what’s the matter with you?”
Shaking my head, I evade her searching eyes. “What’s so damn important?”
“You have to quit.”
“What?” She’s joking. She has to be, but she looks very serious and very scared.
“You have to quit, today. Like right now, you can’t keep working for Leo.”
“Are you serious? I’m not quitting. Leo has put me through hell trying to get me to quit. I’m not going to give him the satisfaction. Why the hell do I have to quit?”
Natalie looks nervous. “He’s been trying to get you to quit?”
I shrug, embarrassed to admit it. “Yeah.”
“Oh fuck. I thought there was a chance I was wrong, but I’m so not. You have got to quit. Leo wants you.”
“I just said he wants me to quit. I’m not quitting because he wants me to.”
“No, you idiot not because he wants you to. Because he wants you.” She shakes her head at my confusion. “He wants to fuck you.”
I’m so stunned I can’t even think for a minute. It’s not possible. “Why would you think that? Leo, a Greek god, does not want fat ass me.”
“Because I sat in his office for like two hours and he didn’t take his eyes off you for more than fifteen minutes. I saw it in his eyes, he wants you. If he wants you, then he’s going to get you. When he does, he’ll know you lied and that I lied. He’ll roast the both of us when he finds out. You have to quit, right now.”
No, it can’t be. The words are on the tip of my tongue until my body responds, reminding me of what happened not more than ten minutes ago. Leo had looked at me like he was a very hungry lion who spotted his prey and was ready to leap. That’s what that was, hunger and desire, and he was looking right at me. His large body over me, close, so close I could smell him, my every breath was full of him, and it was so intoxicating it made me weak. When his eyes finally let go of mine to move to my breasts they swelled instantly, my nipples becoming so hard so fast, pain mingled with pleasure at the feel of his eyes on me. The ringing phone had been a painful intrusion, I felt cut off from him too fast.