She looked anywhere, but at me. “Lily.” She looked back to me. “Please talk to me.”
“I…He…He doesn’t know I’ve started work here. I never told him about the interview, about being offered the position, or that I was due to start work here today, or anywhere else, for that matter. I guess I just wanted something for me. He can be rather vocal, and I was really looking forward to working here, so I decided to keep quiet rather than have him lecture me.” She ended on a shrug.
“How do you want to handle this?” She nervously moved the hair falling around her neck in disarray, behind her ear. “I need you at the meeting Lily. If I could spare you, I would.” I just about managed to prevent myself from basically falling at her feet. God, if one of my brothers were here right now, they’d be falling over laughing at me for becoming an idiot over a woman I’d only just met.
“Don’t worry, Michael. Uh, is it okay to call you Michael, or do you prefer Mr McKenzie?”
I grinned at her. “Michael, when we’re alone, but you should probably use Mr. McKenzie in the presence of others.”
“Okay. We’re all adults, and David is always the professional, so hopefully he won’t get pissed at me, well, until tonight anyway,” she said trying to laugh it off.
Why the hell would her so-called boyfriend be pissed that she had a job? A job which paid well. He was an idiot.
“Lily, if he makes you nervous at the meeting, I’ll be right there, all right?” She nodded. “Now Oakfield, up to now, are actually in the lead with the bidding. I will tell you that I prefer one of the other companies, but my brothers are rather impressed with Oakfield. The meeting today is to look over some sketches that we asked all three companies to provide. I’ll look them over and listen to what they have to say, but no decision will be made until I’ve had a meeting with my brothers. I’ll want you to take notes, but don’t write everything down. I’ll let you know when I want something noted, okay?”
“Yeah, that sounds easy enough.” She smiled, which made me loose my train of thought. “Is everything okay?” she asked, fidgeting, because I’d been staring at her.
“Do I make you nervous, Lily?” I couldn’t believe I’d just asked her that. My mouth needed to reattach itself to my brain. I held my hand out. “Forget I asked you that, it was out of line. Come on, let’s go and get this over with.” Hell, I was out of line earlier as well, when I had her pinned to the door. She would be in her right mind to scream sexual harassment, but she’d felt too damn good against me.
We stood and I took hold of her elbow, then felt a shiver run through her. “Lily.” She looked at me and I briefly saw what my closeness did to her.
She hesitantly pulled away from me and started towards the door. “I’ll just grab a notebook and some pens,” she said over her shoulder as she closed the door behind her.
Fuck. I was an adult and just acted like an adolescent boy with his first crush, the same way my cock had been reacting. I really needed to get a grip.
Chapter 7
LILY
I sat rather heavily in the chair at my desk, not sure my legs would hold me up any longer. I wasn’t even sure how I managed to walk out of Michael’s office. I’d never been so close to begging a man to take me as I just was. My panties were wet and I was still aroused to high heaven. The reaction to my boss was so not good, but no matter who he was, I was still in a relationship with David, even if he had been acting like a first class jerk. But I couldn’t ignore the strong attraction I had to Michael, even if I wanted to.
“You ready?”
Shit. I hadn’t even heard him walk out of his office. I quickly stood and collected my notebook and pens from my desk, then joined him. “Ready as I’ll ever be.”
We walked side by side down the corridor, which I presumed led to the conference room. I could smell him – all man and cologne. There was nothing sexier.
As we rounded the corner, Michael opened the door for me. I started to walk through and stopped dead at the sight of David, sitting in the conference room. His expression changed from confusion to fury. Michael walked into me and just about stopped me from falling flat on my face.
He had an arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me tight against his body. He didn’t let me go. I turned my head to look behind me and clashed with Michael’s eyes. Our faces were inches apart, my heart pounded and all I wanted to do was lean that little bit closer and taste him, but instead, I came back to my senses. “Let me go,” I whispered.
He briefly tightened his arm around me, then very slowly unwrapped himself and ushered me further into the room. David was sitting with two of his colleagues, John and Peter. He looked…. speechless. “Hello David. John. Peter.”