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| Site contents Copyright © 2005-2015 Bridget Midway All Rights Reserved |
Corporate Seduction
Copyright 2005
Chapter 1
Sex on top of the new Hewlett Packard laser fax-copier-printer. May Davenport stared at the cream
colored, multi-functioning, waist-high monstrosity and wondered just that. Would it be possible to have
sex on that thing?
The rumor running rampant at Crystal Industries would have the entire twenty-five floors believing that
such an act would not only be plausible but had, indeed, happen between a junior partner on the
second floor and a female executive on the seventeenth who was not known to fraternize with anyone
below her floor.
May cocked her head as she stared at the machine, as though willing it to share its secrets. Who was
on top? Did anything break in the process? Did it get any good pictures?
Damn, she needed to get a life.
What she really wanted to know was what possessed two people to throw caution to the wind and be so
reckless as to risk getting caught going against Company Policy No-No Number Two according to the
Crystal Industries employee handbook. Number One rule involved giving up stock trading tips. Priorities.
She snickered to herself, sitting at her desk that faced the door and had her back to her boss’s office.
The bastard wanted to be sure he could look over her shoulder at a moment’s notice to make sure she
didn’t pass time surfing the Internet or worse, finding a better job.
So close to heaven, being this high off the ground, she would have thought she would have been
happier.
What would make her extremely happy would be to move up in the company, for them to finally
recognize her skills and talents in the financial department instead of being relegated as simply an
executive assistant. Hell, she might as well say it. A secretary.
The thought made her grind her teeth. She knew her pinhead of a boss held her back. Other
assistants were allowed to sit in on meetings. She had heard that some even ran them. Damn bastard.
What fueled her to stay at Crystal Industries, more than the pay and the health benefits that paid for her
grandmother’s medication, it was the fact that one day May would make it to the top and would have the
distinct pleasure of telling her windbag of a boss to kiss her ass.
As she thought about the man planting his lips onto her cheek, her face felt flush. Sure he was a jerk
but he was a pretty good-looking jerk. Well, if tall, clear blue eyes and straight, white teeth turned a
woman on. For May, it did.
There were days she imagined her boss on his hands and knees, crawling to her, begging to be
disciplined or more. She wanted him to beg her to please her. She closed her eyes and imagined
feeling his tongue against her pussy, stroking her lower lips and diving inside of her until she came and
came hard. But she wouldn’t stop there. She would use him as her own play toy. Making him fuck her
until she was exhausted or grew tired of him. She would use him in the same way he’d been using her.
Get this. Get that. Fuck you!
She tugged at a loose piece of string at the end of her sleeve. With one pull, she managed to unravel
the stitching going up the arm, making a nice, long opening at the inside seam.
“Shit.” She tossed the useless thread and attempted to close the hole. “My favorite sweater too.”
The good thing about the gaping opening was that it created a Saturday night project since May didn’t
have a date and had no prospects of getting one in the near future.
The next obstacle would be to get out of here on time. Before she could look at her watch, a bellow
broke her thoughts.
“Maybelline, come in here,” jerk du jour said as though he’d known her immediate plans.
Why did he have to use her full first name? He knew she hated it. The name constantly reminded her
of her southern roots and her mother’s ignorance about popular cosmetics.
“I thought it sounded sweet,” her mother had said.
She used to correct her boss constantly the first year she worked for him.
“It’s May, just like the month. Just call me May.”
Four years and a Bachelor of Arts degree later, he still called her the name that made her skin crawl.
Pushing herself back from her pressboard-and-steel desk, she grabbed a notepad and pen. The man
never asked her in his office for something simple. He spouted orders like a drill sergeant and always
without looking her in her eyes. Not once.
Lack of eye contact suited her fine. She’d always been a sucker for blue eyes even if they were in the
head of the most insensitive man she’d ever met.
Plants died around him. She’d tried keeping a fern in his office once. Within a week it turned brown and
suffered a horrible death. She thought about bringing in a goldfish but she imagined he would swallow
the thing whole like a snake.
She took a deep breath, calming her queasy stomach and giving herself the strength to walk through
her boss’s door another time for, hopefully, the last time today. She glanced at her watch. Five minutes
to five. He had better make it quick.
Behind a desk big enough to crush a Mini Cooper and surrounded by so many windows he could have
leased a portion of his office to a gardener as a greenhouse, Winston Biggers reigned in his office and,
by most people’s accounts, ruled all of the twenty-third floor.
Different shaped awards decorated a four-tiered glass shelf that sat next to his private bathroom. His
diploma from University of Virginia hung on the opposite wall above an elliptical trainer. Guess even the
King of Mean needed to keep in shape.
Thanks to the fresh flowers brought in each week, his office wreaked of jasmine and lavender today.
Even the sweet aroma didn’t raise Biggers’ spirit.
At a good six-foot-four and dressed in tailored clothes, his presence overwhelmed an entire room. He
looked expensive, from his daily barber-cut brown hair with a light streaking of gray strands down to his
shined shoes that must have been worth more than a small house there in Virginia Beach.
May breathed easier seeing his head down, his gaze trained on the piece of paper on his desk. She
cocked her head and stared at the top of his.
He wasn’t balding like the rest of the high-level executives in the building. Didn’t mean he would be
immune to the follicle failure. It happened to all execs. Bald heads, ulcers, bad marriages. And they
kept putting these guys in high-rise buildings. Guys like Biggers were walking poster children for stress-
related suicides.
But it made her imagine him again between her legs, her knees wrapped around his head as she held a
good chunk of his hair fisted in her hand. She licked her lips and wondered if he ever had fantasies.
Didn’t all bosses fantasized about their secretaries? In her sexy erotica novels that she loved reading
so much they all did.
Not that she cared. The only thing she cared about involved walking out of the office by the time the big
hand hit the twelve and the little hand camped out at the five. If he didn’t look up, she could get away
fast and still get off on time.
Princess Watkins promised her a drink and she knew her friend wouldn’t wait for her for very long. But
then again, with a name like Princess what did May expect?
“Flowers,” Winston said, breaking May from her rambling thoughts.
“Sir?”
Working with the totem pole with style for years, she had grown to get his shorthand way of speaking.
Right now he had her thrown. She had to stop thinking about sex so much at the office.
Maybe the idea of having a margarita in about twenty or so minutes made her stumble. She could
almost taste the burning tequila on her tongue. Thinking about the bitter salt that would cover the glass
rim made her suck in her cheeks. Sugar, definitely sugar on the rim.
“I need an arrangement ordered and sent to a young lady.” His deep voice rolled over the desk and
nearly bowled May over. He swiveled in his chair and retrieved a piece of paper behind him.
“Yes, sir,” she said. She wrote on her pad, ‘guilt flowers’ and underlined it.
Men were so easy to read. It was no longer a sport for her to figure them out. Now it became second
nature to decipher their inner workings.
Biggers was an easy read. Controlling in all aspects of his life. No personal attachments like pets or
children (he would have considered both to be in the same category). Girlfriends that lasted six to eight
months. Long enough to develop a comfortable rhythm but short enough to avoid the annoying
marriage question.
He probably had a cordial almost too proper relationship with his parents. More than likely an only child,
and if he did have a sibling, especially a brother, they competed on every aspect of their lives from jobs
to relationships.
To think of him now, May felt a tiny twinge of sadness. As soon as he spoke, the feeling that felt like a
caterpillar crawling across her naked belly disappeared.
Probably just hunger pangs anyway since she worked through her lunch thanks to some new reports
Biggers wanted prepared.
“I need the arrangement sent to her tonight.” He scribbled something on a notepad. “Something big but
tasteful. Nice and sweet but heartfelt.”
“Perhaps a stuffed animal with it?” she asked.
If she couldn’t have a man there to wring his neck when he skipped out on dinner then a stuffed animal
would do nicely.
He slipped on a pair of glasses with short, rectangular, wire frames that reminded May so much of her
granny’s glasses. His blue-eyed gaze cut over the top as though he looked down on her and her
opinion.
Years of smiling with his deep, long dimples caused him to have two distinct creases in his cheeks that
made him look even more distinguished and handsome. Didn’t help that he also had a cleft in his chin.
Men. They get older and look even better. Women constantly had to overhaul their looks.
Now his stare turned her off. She hoped the woman he would be standing up tonight never got this
chilling look. It caused a rippling shiver from her toes to the top of her head. She gripped her pen and
pad tighter to calm herself.
“I want something classy, not gaudy.”
May bit the inside of her lower lip, trying hard not to spit on him the way his gaze made her feel like he’d
done that to her.
What did he know about class? Designer clothes and working close to the top floor didn’t give him any
sort of prestige.
“Yes, sir.” She wrote ‘asshole’ on under her initial comment and underlined it twice.
“On the card I need to have written, ‘Can’t make it to dinner tonight. Sorry. Some other time. Win.’ Got
that?”
As though she could not get that pathetic excuse for an apology.
But she obliged him and repeated his message. “Unable to make it to dinner.”
He cut her off. “Can’t. Not ‘unable to make it.’ I can’t.”
“There’s a difference, sir?” Not that she meant to me insolent but his pettiness wore on her nerves,
especially now.
He leaned back in his black, leather swivel chair and removed his glasses. “‘Unable’ makes it seem like I
could go but don’t want to. ‘Can’t’ says that I cannot physically make it to dinner. And I can’t go. I just
can’t.”
His voice held something that said he had a bigger but not necessarily better excuse for not showing. If
she didn’t know any better, she would have thought he sounded exhausted.
So this was what Winston Biggers was like as a boyfriend. He created the rules. He set the pace. His
wants. His schedule.
Bastard.
Did he ever once think about his woman’s needs?
What was May thinking? This was the same man who’d given her a day to get over the flu.
But a man who worked this many hours and rode her hard had to have had a story for why he became
the man he was today. Not that May necessarily cared. But he did intrigue her. How could a handsome
man manage to never marry and seem so unfulfilled?
She wanted to kick herself for asking but a good employee, the one who desperately needed and
deserved a raise, would do so. “Did you have some extra work that needed to be done that’s preventing
you from meeting this woman for dinner? I could help you if that’s the case.”
He stared at her, his face and expression looking softer than she’d ever seen it. At that moment, the
crow’s feet around his eyes didn’t look as sinister. His lips parted but he uttered nothing.
Was he actually touched by her gesture? She blinked and directed her gaze back to her pad and pen.
Her hand trembled and she shook it as though that would somehow reset her feelings.
“No,” he answered, finally. “Something else came up.”
She nodded, relieved he didn’t suggest more work. “Can’t make it to dinner tonight. Sorry. Some other
time. Win.”
He nodded. “Here’s her name and address.” He handed her a paper.
May stared at the name. A gasp rose up her throat but she swallowed it down before it had a chance to
become audible.
She kept her expression neutral. “She won’t be happy.”
“It’s not like she hasn’t canceled a million times on me when she got a break in one of her cases.” He
folded his glasses and slipped them into a small, brown leather case.
Yeah, but Courtney Vanderloo wasn’t just any detective. To say she’d been highly decorated
throughout her career would be like saying Americans were moderately pleased Saddam Hussein had
been captured.
And to think the woman wouldn’t want to have dinner with someone special tonight would have been an
even bigger err in judgment.
May’s gaze cut to the open newspaper on Biggers’ desk. ‘Vanderloo Nabs Child Porn Distributor’
splashed across the top. A picture of a petite blonde leading a burly man with a jacket over his head
into the Virginia Beach jail coupled the article.
So blondes were Biggers’ type. Again, not that May cared. She knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that
Biggers wouldn’t give her a second glance, not because she was black or that her full hips and thighs
classified her as voluptuous and not petite, but because of her position.
He looked down on her because she was only an executive assistant. Given the chance, she wanted to
do more. She could be more if only she didn’t have this blue-eyed roadblock in her way.
She craned her head to read a part of the article about Courtney when her boss snatched the paper off
his desk and folded it. He shoved it into his briefcase.
“You know the flower shop to use and they have my charge account number.”
“Yes, sir.”
She wrote ‘feeling inadequate’ in her list and underlined it three times. Her minor in psychology had to
be good for something.
With a quick turn on her heel, she rushed back to her desk. As long as the phone line remained clear to
the flower shop, she could still make it to downtown Norfolk from downtown Virginia Beach in about
twenty minutes.
His voice halted her again. “Maybelline.”
She cursed under her breath while her back faced him. She pivoted. “Yes, Mr. Biggers?”
He lifted his briefcase while slinging his suit jacket over his arm. With a confident gait, he strolled to
her. As she watched him, she wondered if he’d been taught how to act like he owned the room from one
of his many prep schools he must have attended.
Like two like-sided magnets repelling each other, May felt the need to move back from him, easing to
her desk the closer he got. But with his long legs, he made it to her, trapping her in the doorway.
The man always had a way of crowding a person’s personal space. May had thought he did it only to
her. But then others came forth like victims to the same crime. He’d violated all of their spaces and
probably didn’t realize what he’d done.
Or maybe he did. Maybe it was his way of lording over people. Maybe he did it as an intimidation
factor. This time, though, she would look the beast in its eyes. She wouldn’t be bullied today.
As he stood so close, May took in a deep breath. He smelled of a clean-smelling cologne. Not too
overpowering and not a heavy, musky scent. If she didn’t know any better, she would have sworn he’d
just put it on before she entered his office. The light aroma belied his power. But it worked.
She let out her breath to steady her queasy stomach. Why did this guy make her so nervous? She
epitomized a strong, young black woman. Educated, smart, independent. No way a corporate white guy
who probably ate mayonnaise sandwiches without the crust could make her feel intimidated.
But there she was, her knees knocking, her heart pounding, sweat forming on the back of her neck. She
grabbed the doorframe behind her to keep from slipping down to the floor.
“Plans tonight?” he asked.
Without her stopping it, she blinked at his question. Seemed odd he would ask since he’d never asked
her about her life outside of the office. He usually wanted to know how to keep her in the office working
more.
She nodded, cleared her throat then answered. “Yes. Meeting someone.”
He raised his eyebrows. He opened his mouth like he wanted to ask her more questions. She never
noticed the subtle glow of his sun-kissed skin.
Yes, Courtney would be very pissed she missed her date tonight. If the man didn’t speak, he could be
doable.
“Oh.” His tone sounded both curious and almost disappointed. A strange combination. “Thank you for
staying over to do this for me. I appreciate it.”
Just how much did he appreciate it? She tightened her grip on the wall and summoned as much
courage as she could.
“Appreciation can be shown in a lot of ways,” she began.
Biggers’ eyes widened as he moved himself out of the doorway and into the main office, holding his
briefcase in front of himself. “Really?” His tone turned even more curious as though he imagined some
possibility.
Not on his life. The man cared about nothing but himself. Any woman who hooked up with him was
asking for heartache. She’d been through enough to not want it to happen to her again.
Besides, he was her boss. That would have been a violation of Crystal Industries’ Rule Number Twelve.
Among other things, May had time to memorize the company handbook.
She nodded, turned her gaze down for a moment then back to him. “My bonus. A raise, sir. I know it
may not be the right time to ask for them, but---”
“You’re right,” he said, interrupting her. “It isn’t. The company is going through a rough time financially
so there may not be any bonuses this year. Your annual review comes up in another four months. We
can discuss it then.”
Four months? Four fucking months to wait to see if she’ll be granted a raise especially since there won’t
be any bonuses?
Sorry, Granny. Can’t get that medication you need because I have to wait four months for a raise from
my stingy-ass boss! And the story about the company going through its own depression was bullshit.
She knew the financial status of Crystal Industries better than most executives. They had money to
spare.
Instead of screaming at the top of her lungs at this jerk or quitting right on the spot, she smiled and
slipped down into her wobbly chair. The cheap bastard wouldn’t even spring for a decent chair.
“And I know the company encourages individual style to a limit, but in the future I would like to see you
wear appropriate clothing to work.” He nodded toward her. “Nothing with holes in them.”
Her gaze dropped to the newly formed hole in her sweater sleeve. “Sir, you don’t understand. I---”
Without a word, he walked out of the office. She waited to hear the ding of the elevator down the hall
and the subsequent sound of the door sliding behind him before she let out a groan.
That capped off her helluva day.
Snatching the phone from its cradle, she hit the speed dial number to Flower Power, the company’s
floral arranger.
“Flower Power. What occasion can we decorate for you?” the perky salesman asked.
“Hi, Chip. It’s May.”
May stared at her notes. Her anger displayed with each assessment. She ran her finger over the last
two words, ‘feeling inadequate’. She felt the deep grooves and impressions on the page.
“All The Way May!” he chirped. “How are you?”
“Overworked and underpaid.” She let out a long sigh. Feeling inadequate, she thought.
“I hear that. So what can I do for you tonight?”
“Are you still gay?”
“Out and proud.”
“Then I’ll settle for a floral arrangement for Bighead.” She had other nicknames for the man but Bighead
seemed like an okay one to use for now.
“What is it? Funeral? Promotion? Birthday?”
“Ditching a date.” She heard Chip flipping through some papers.
“Ohh, worse kind.” He tsked. “Shoot.”
May described the type of arrangement she would have like to have gotten if a date had dumped her.
Something big, full of roses, babies breath, daisies and calla lilies. After getting a brief rundown of their
different types of vases, May settled on one that sounded the most appealing.
“Anything else?” he asked.
“Yes.” She stared at the trite statement on her notepad. The guy was an asshole but Courtney
deserved better. “The card. Write ‘I wish I could have been there tonight to celebrate. I am proud of
you. Please accept my apologies.’” She struggled with the signature but her romantic side won. “Sign it
‘Love, Win.’”
How could he not love a woman who fought against pornography?
“Oh, girl. Sounds serious.” Chip smacked his lips, audible even through the phone.
If Biggers found out what she did, it would be serious. Or maybe he would thank her. The uptight man
needed to get laid. Then again, so did she. But first thing’s first. Make her boss happy and she would
be happy.
She gave Chip the name and address of the woman who would receive these flowers.
“Anything else?”
May ripped off her notepaper and tossed the wad into the trashcan under her desk. “Yes. You have
any stuffed animals?”
# # #
“To bosses! May they all rot in hell!” Princess clinked her bowl-shaped margarita glass against May’s
and took a healthy gulp of her frozen drink.
May opted to sip her raspberry margarita through a straw. She couldn’t pound her drinks back like
Princess could. But then again, there were a lot of things Princess did that May couldn’t do, and that
went from the guys she dated to the clothes she wore to her questionable employment.
May glanced at her friend’s cleavage revealing top then looked down at her high-neck, long-sleeved
black knit shirt. She remembered how short Princess’s skirt was when she met her in the parking lot.
May’s skirt had to have been three times as long as hers. She didn’t even want to think about footwear.
May had to face it. Where Princess looked ready for a party, May seemed like she was ready to teach
the next school lesson. Looking dowdy worked for her when she went through college. But that life
ended. She needed to do some living.
“So what did that asshole do this time?” Princess asked as she glanced at her while surveying the bar.
“It’s less about him and more about me.” May trailed her finger along the rim of the glass, removing the
grainy sugar then licking it off of her finger.
Princess wanted the heavy rock salt on her rim. One time she even asked if she could have the worm
inside of the tequila bottle. Maybe if May had salt instead of sugar on her glass then she would be as
bold and brash as her friend.
“He told me I had to wait four months for a raise.” May shook her head. “I need the extra dough,
Princess. I’m barely making ends meet as it is and Granny’s meds aren’t getting any cheaper.”
And May had told her financial woes to a woman who looked to have had her hair done by the best
professional in Virginia Beach, clothes that looked designer-made even if they weren’t and rings on
every finger.
“You need a better job,” Princess said.
“Don’t you think I’ve tried? I thought having a degree meant something. All it means now is that I spent
way too much time in school and less learning about real life.” She dipped a fried tortilla chip into some
red, chunky salsa. Put her in her bedroom and give her a good, steamy romance novel and May would
have been in heaven.
“You college graduates,” her friend said and shook her head. “All the book sense in the world but no
common sense to save your lives.”
“That’s why I like hanging out with you, Princess. You always know the right thing to say.” May took a
big drink. The icy cold liquid chilled her teeth to the gums and made her wince. The ice headache that
pierced her brain didn’t help matters either.
“I think I can help you,” Princess said then winked to a man walking by them.
“I don’t want a handout. I want to earn the money on my own.”
Her friend furrowed her eyebrows. “I wasn’t about to give you any money. I was offering you an
opportunity.”
Now it was May’s turn to look confused. “What kind of opportunity?”
She’d known Princess since junior high school and knew her friend had a thing for dancing on the wrong
side of the law. Not necessarily illegal but not quite right either.
Princess reached into her Louis Vuitton bag, real not a knockoff, and pulled out a card. With a bit of
trepidation, May took the card, waited a beat before she read it. Lord only knew what her friend had in
mind.
“The Oh Club. Never heard of it.”
The red card with gold letters proved difficult to read in the dimly lit bar. But held at an angle and into
the only light source May found in the place, she could see the name. Nothing else appeared on the
card except for a phone number. No addresses. No proprietor name. Nothing.
“What is this?” May asked.
“Your ticket to easy money. All you have to do is say yes.”
May stared at the card. Princess was wild but she knew she wouldn’t put her in harms way. And she did
need the money, fast. Easy.
Staring at her friend, she said, “It wouldn’t hurt to look.”
With a big grin, Princess said, “It never hurts to look.”
# # #
Winston pushed his way through the door once he reached the parking garage level. Walking down
twenty-three flights of stairs didn’t get his heart rate going. The fact that the trip came from the twenty-
third floor instead of the twenty-fifth made him grind his teeth.
Two floors. Two fucking floors to the top. Wasn’t enough that he’d given up everything to Crystal
Industries? No family. No real relationship. Working eighty-hour workweeks. But it still hadn’t been
sufficient. And at every turn, someone with their hand out, wanting money or something from him.
“Evening, Mr. Biggers.” A valet driver held his hand out to him, waiting for Winston’s claim ticket.
The gesture seemed almost creepy as though the man knew what Winston had been thinking moments
before.
“Mr. Biggers?” the valet driver asked.
Winston smiled and fished through his pants pocket for the stub. “Long day. Little out of it.”
“I understand, sir.” The young man ran down a row of cars.
As Winston stared at the valet, he was brought back twenty years ago to his own youth. Twenty-one
and carefree. He worked as a waiter at his parents’ country club during the summer. Then when school
started he went to the university he parents wanted him to attend. Except for what he wore, his every
decision had been made for him.
He took in a deep breath, inhaling the car exhaust and cigarette smoke smell that hung in the garage.
Feeling constricted all of the sudden, he unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt. He heard the
rumbling of his vehicle, a black Hummer that Courtney hated.
“It’s destroying the environment,” she’d said.
When he said he wouldn’t be giving it up, waiting and wanting her to argue with him, she conceded.
“You men and your toys.”
Why couldn’t he find a woman strong enough to question him? As soon as the headlights hit him, he
thought of the one woman who had.
Maybelline. May, she wanted him to call her. No, he liked her birth name. It stood out…like her.
Once she wore a black dress that wasn’t meant to be clingy but it did. It hung onto every curve and
swell on her body, accentuating her round breasts, her firm ass and her long legs. Just thinking about
her now caused his cock to twitch and engorge until he had to, again, cover himself with his briefcase. If
he hadn’t done it earlier when he was talking to her, she would have had him up for sexual harassment
charges.
But being near her drove him crazy. Her long, dark brown hair always looked soft. On a few occasions,
he happened to stand behind her at her desk right before she noticed he was there and smelled her
hair. Her scent matched the aroma of the flowers she had delivered to his office. Something wild but
fragrant that he couldn’t quite place.
Her almond shaped eyes drove him to distraction. And her full lips. God help him but he had imagined
them wrapped around his hard-on until he came into her mouth.
He let out a groan as soon as the valet stopped the truck in front of him.
“Win Big,” the young man said as he held open the door.
Many people liked saying the name printed on Winston’s license plates. The name was his father’s
idea, a fact the man still bragged about to this day.
Winston handed the man a twenty. He was feeling generous and nostalgic all at the same time. He
imagined that if he were that man, he would have spent the money on beer and pizza.
As he headed down the street to his house, Winston wondered how Maybelline was spending her time
right now. He knew it wasn’t thinking about him. And if she were thinking of him, it wouldn’t be flattering.
But he couldn’t be kind to her. His kindness would turn into something more. Something physical. And
since Genterson and Pollick couldn’t keep their fucking hands off of each other in the office, the
company emphasized the company policy against office romances.
But as long as he had her there in his office, working for him, that would have to sustain him for now. In
order to keep up his need, he would have to keep suppressed her newly acquired degree.
If human resources knew she had an English degree, they would have snagged her for their training
department. They had asked about her before. But he couldn’t let her go. Not yet. He just needed
more time. More time with her.
From the corner down the street from his house, he activated his garage door opener so that by the
time he reached his driveway, he pulled into the garage without waiting.
Once inside, he did, however, wait until the door closed completely and until the motion sensor light in
the garage went off before he undid the rest of the buttons on his shirt.
His hand moved down to his pants and he unfastened it. Pulling the zipper down, he noticed the sound
of each tooth releasing. Relief waved over him with each click. He closed his eyes and imagined what
Maybelline would have done if she heard him undoing his pants.
She would lick her lips like the way she’d done in his office earlier, maybe even brush her hands over
her breasts. Those magnificent nipples of hers that he’d seen poke out nice and hard during the
summer when he kept the office temperature at an arctic level, would stand out proud, waiting for his
touch, wanting to be licked and sucked.
He pulled out his hard cock. With a firm grip, he stroked his hand up and down the shaft while thinking
of Maybelline.
“More. Give me more,” she would say.
He squeezed harder, being sure to pulse his hand at the tip. Heat filled the truck until sweat covered
him, making his t-shirt and pants stick to his body. In the silent vehicle inside of his garage, he heard his
moans, his cries for a woman who looked at him with hate and disgust in her eyes. If she only knew.
All he would want would be to kiss her, to have her lips against his. Just the thought made him erupt.
His warm sperm shot from him, landing on his shirt, steering wheel and windshield. The new-car smell
that permeated the truck now smelled like sex and new-car smell.
Damn, he needed her. Not any woman. Maybelline Davenport.
When the fanfare died down around Courtney, he would break up with her. It wouldn’t be fair to her to
continue dating. With his mind constantly on Maybelline, he wouldn’t have given her the attention she
deserved.
Besides, the relationship wasn’t that serious. It wasn’t like he’d told her he loved her.
Chapter 1
Sex on top of the new Hewlett Packard laser fax-copier-printer. May Davenport stared at the cream
colored, multi-functioning, waist-high monstrosity and wondered just that. Would it be possible to have
sex on that thing?
The rumor running rampant at Crystal Industries would have the entire twenty-five floors believing that
such an act would not only be plausible but had, indeed, happen between a junior partner on the
second floor and a female executive on the seventeenth who was not known to fraternize with anyone
below her floor.
May cocked her head as she stared at the machine, as though willing it to share its secrets. Who was
on top? Did anything break in the process? Did it get any good pictures?
Damn, she needed to get a life.
What she really wanted to know was what possessed two people to throw caution to the wind and be so
reckless as to risk getting caught going against Company Policy No-No Number Two according to the
Crystal Industries employee handbook. Number One rule involved giving up stock trading tips. Priorities.
She snickered to herself, sitting at her desk that faced the door and had her back to her boss’s office.
The bastard wanted to be sure he could look over her shoulder at a moment’s notice to make sure she
didn’t pass time surfing the Internet or worse, finding a better job.
So close to heaven, being this high off the ground, she would have thought she would have been
happier.
What would make her extremely happy would be to move up in the company, for them to finally
recognize her skills and talents in the financial department instead of being relegated as simply an
executive assistant. Hell, she might as well say it. A secretary.
The thought made her grind her teeth. She knew her pinhead of a boss held her back. Other
assistants were allowed to sit in on meetings. She had heard that some even ran them. Damn bastard.
What fueled her to stay at Crystal Industries, more than the pay and the health benefits that paid for her
grandmother’s medication, it was the fact that one day May would make it to the top and would have the
distinct pleasure of telling her windbag of a boss to kiss her ass.
As she thought about the man planting his lips onto her cheek, her face felt flush. Sure he was a jerk
but he was a pretty good-looking jerk. Well, if tall, clear blue eyes and straight, white teeth turned a
woman on. For May, it did.
There were days she imagined her boss on his hands and knees, crawling to her, begging to be
disciplined or more. She wanted him to beg her to please her. She closed her eyes and imagined
feeling his tongue against her pussy, stroking her lower lips and diving inside of her until she came and
came hard. But she wouldn’t stop there. She would use him as her own play toy. Making him fuck her
until she was exhausted or grew tired of him. She would use him in the same way he’d been using her.
Get this. Get that. Fuck you!
She tugged at a loose piece of string at the end of her sleeve. With one pull, she managed to unravel
the stitching going up the arm, making a nice, long opening at the inside seam.
“Shit.” She tossed the useless thread and attempted to close the hole. “My favorite sweater too.”
The good thing about the gaping opening was that it created a Saturday night project since May didn’t
have a date and had no prospects of getting one in the near future.
The next obstacle would be to get out of here on time. Before she could look at her watch, a bellow
broke her thoughts.
“Maybelline, come in here,” jerk du jour said as though he’d known her immediate plans.
Why did he have to use her full first name? He knew she hated it. The name constantly reminded her
of her southern roots and her mother’s ignorance about popular cosmetics.
“I thought it sounded sweet,” her mother had said.
She used to correct her boss constantly the first year she worked for him.
“It’s May, just like the month. Just call me May.”
Four years and a Bachelor of Arts degree later, he still called her the name that made her skin crawl.
Pushing herself back from her pressboard-and-steel desk, she grabbed a notepad and pen. The man
never asked her in his office for something simple. He spouted orders like a drill sergeant and always
without looking her in her eyes. Not once.
Lack of eye contact suited her fine. She’d always been a sucker for blue eyes even if they were in the
head of the most insensitive man she’d ever met.
Plants died around him. She’d tried keeping a fern in his office once. Within a week it turned brown and
suffered a horrible death. She thought about bringing in a goldfish but she imagined he would swallow
the thing whole like a snake.
She took a deep breath, calming her queasy stomach and giving herself the strength to walk through
her boss’s door another time for, hopefully, the last time today. She glanced at her watch. Five minutes
to five. He had better make it quick.
Behind a desk big enough to crush a Mini Cooper and surrounded by so many windows he could have
leased a portion of his office to a gardener as a greenhouse, Winston Biggers reigned in his office and,
by most people’s accounts, ruled all of the twenty-third floor.
Different shaped awards decorated a four-tiered glass shelf that sat next to his private bathroom. His
diploma from University of Virginia hung on the opposite wall above an elliptical trainer. Guess even the
King of Mean needed to keep in shape.
Thanks to the fresh flowers brought in each week, his office wreaked of jasmine and lavender today.
Even the sweet aroma didn’t raise Biggers’ spirit.
At a good six-foot-four and dressed in tailored clothes, his presence overwhelmed an entire room. He
looked expensive, from his daily barber-cut brown hair with a light streaking of gray strands down to his
shined shoes that must have been worth more than a small house there in Virginia Beach.
May breathed easier seeing his head down, his gaze trained on the piece of paper on his desk. She
cocked her head and stared at the top of his.
He wasn’t balding like the rest of the high-level executives in the building. Didn’t mean he would be
immune to the follicle failure. It happened to all execs. Bald heads, ulcers, bad marriages. And they
kept putting these guys in high-rise buildings. Guys like Biggers were walking poster children for stress-
related suicides.
But it made her imagine him again between her legs, her knees wrapped around his head as she held a
good chunk of his hair fisted in her hand. She licked her lips and wondered if he ever had fantasies.
Didn’t all bosses fantasized about their secretaries? In her sexy erotica novels that she loved reading
so much they all did.
Not that she cared. The only thing she cared about involved walking out of the office by the time the big
hand hit the twelve and the little hand camped out at the five. If he didn’t look up, she could get away
fast and still get off on time.
Princess Watkins promised her a drink and she knew her friend wouldn’t wait for her for very long. But
then again, with a name like Princess what did May expect?
“Flowers,” Winston said, breaking May from her rambling thoughts.
“Sir?”
Working with the totem pole with style for years, she had grown to get his shorthand way of speaking.
Right now he had her thrown. She had to stop thinking about sex so much at the office.
Maybe the idea of having a margarita in about twenty or so minutes made her stumble. She could
almost taste the burning tequila on her tongue. Thinking about the bitter salt that would cover the glass
rim made her suck in her cheeks. Sugar, definitely sugar on the rim.
“I need an arrangement ordered and sent to a young lady.” His deep voice rolled over the desk and
nearly bowled May over. He swiveled in his chair and retrieved a piece of paper behind him.
“Yes, sir,” she said. She wrote on her pad, ‘guilt flowers’ and underlined it.
Men were so easy to read. It was no longer a sport for her to figure them out. Now it became second
nature to decipher their inner workings.
Biggers was an easy read. Controlling in all aspects of his life. No personal attachments like pets or
children (he would have considered both to be in the same category). Girlfriends that lasted six to eight
months. Long enough to develop a comfortable rhythm but short enough to avoid the annoying
marriage question.
He probably had a cordial almost too proper relationship with his parents. More than likely an only child,
and if he did have a sibling, especially a brother, they competed on every aspect of their lives from jobs
to relationships.
To think of him now, May felt a tiny twinge of sadness. As soon as he spoke, the feeling that felt like a
caterpillar crawling across her naked belly disappeared.
Probably just hunger pangs anyway since she worked through her lunch thanks to some new reports
Biggers wanted prepared.
“I need the arrangement sent to her tonight.” He scribbled something on a notepad. “Something big but
tasteful. Nice and sweet but heartfelt.”
“Perhaps a stuffed animal with it?” she asked.
If she couldn’t have a man there to wring his neck when he skipped out on dinner then a stuffed animal
would do nicely.
He slipped on a pair of glasses with short, rectangular, wire frames that reminded May so much of her
granny’s glasses. His blue-eyed gaze cut over the top as though he looked down on her and her
opinion.
Years of smiling with his deep, long dimples caused him to have two distinct creases in his cheeks that
made him look even more distinguished and handsome. Didn’t help that he also had a cleft in his chin.
Men. They get older and look even better. Women constantly had to overhaul their looks.
Now his stare turned her off. She hoped the woman he would be standing up tonight never got this
chilling look. It caused a rippling shiver from her toes to the top of her head. She gripped her pen and
pad tighter to calm herself.
“I want something classy, not gaudy.”
May bit the inside of her lower lip, trying hard not to spit on him the way his gaze made her feel like he’d
done that to her.
What did he know about class? Designer clothes and working close to the top floor didn’t give him any
sort of prestige.
“Yes, sir.” She wrote ‘asshole’ on under her initial comment and underlined it twice.
“On the card I need to have written, ‘Can’t make it to dinner tonight. Sorry. Some other time. Win.’ Got
that?”
As though she could not get that pathetic excuse for an apology.
But she obliged him and repeated his message. “Unable to make it to dinner.”
He cut her off. “Can’t. Not ‘unable to make it.’ I can’t.”
“There’s a difference, sir?” Not that she meant to me insolent but his pettiness wore on her nerves,
especially now.
He leaned back in his black, leather swivel chair and removed his glasses. “‘Unable’ makes it seem like I
could go but don’t want to. ‘Can’t’ says that I cannot physically make it to dinner. And I can’t go. I just
can’t.”
His voice held something that said he had a bigger but not necessarily better excuse for not showing. If
she didn’t know any better, she would have thought he sounded exhausted.
So this was what Winston Biggers was like as a boyfriend. He created the rules. He set the pace. His
wants. His schedule.
Bastard.
Did he ever once think about his woman’s needs?
What was May thinking? This was the same man who’d given her a day to get over the flu.
But a man who worked this many hours and rode her hard had to have had a story for why he became
the man he was today. Not that May necessarily cared. But he did intrigue her. How could a handsome
man manage to never marry and seem so unfulfilled?
She wanted to kick herself for asking but a good employee, the one who desperately needed and
deserved a raise, would do so. “Did you have some extra work that needed to be done that’s preventing
you from meeting this woman for dinner? I could help you if that’s the case.”
He stared at her, his face and expression looking softer than she’d ever seen it. At that moment, the
crow’s feet around his eyes didn’t look as sinister. His lips parted but he uttered nothing.
Was he actually touched by her gesture? She blinked and directed her gaze back to her pad and pen.
Her hand trembled and she shook it as though that would somehow reset her feelings.
“No,” he answered, finally. “Something else came up.”
She nodded, relieved he didn’t suggest more work. “Can’t make it to dinner tonight. Sorry. Some other
time. Win.”
He nodded. “Here’s her name and address.” He handed her a paper.
May stared at the name. A gasp rose up her throat but she swallowed it down before it had a chance to
become audible.
She kept her expression neutral. “She won’t be happy.”
“It’s not like she hasn’t canceled a million times on me when she got a break in one of her cases.” He
folded his glasses and slipped them into a small, brown leather case.
Yeah, but Courtney Vanderloo wasn’t just any detective. To say she’d been highly decorated
throughout her career would be like saying Americans were moderately pleased Saddam Hussein had
been captured.
And to think the woman wouldn’t want to have dinner with someone special tonight would have been an
even bigger err in judgment.
May’s gaze cut to the open newspaper on Biggers’ desk. ‘Vanderloo Nabs Child Porn Distributor’
splashed across the top. A picture of a petite blonde leading a burly man with a jacket over his head
into the Virginia Beach jail coupled the article.
So blondes were Biggers’ type. Again, not that May cared. She knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that
Biggers wouldn’t give her a second glance, not because she was black or that her full hips and thighs
classified her as voluptuous and not petite, but because of her position.
He looked down on her because she was only an executive assistant. Given the chance, she wanted to
do more. She could be more if only she didn’t have this blue-eyed roadblock in her way.
She craned her head to read a part of the article about Courtney when her boss snatched the paper off
his desk and folded it. He shoved it into his briefcase.
“You know the flower shop to use and they have my charge account number.”
“Yes, sir.”
She wrote ‘feeling inadequate’ in her list and underlined it three times. Her minor in psychology had to
be good for something.
With a quick turn on her heel, she rushed back to her desk. As long as the phone line remained clear to
the flower shop, she could still make it to downtown Norfolk from downtown Virginia Beach in about
twenty minutes.
His voice halted her again. “Maybelline.”
She cursed under her breath while her back faced him. She pivoted. “Yes, Mr. Biggers?”
He lifted his briefcase while slinging his suit jacket over his arm. With a confident gait, he strolled to
her. As she watched him, she wondered if he’d been taught how to act like he owned the room from one
of his many prep schools he must have attended.
Like two like-sided magnets repelling each other, May felt the need to move back from him, easing to
her desk the closer he got. But with his long legs, he made it to her, trapping her in the doorway.
The man always had a way of crowding a person’s personal space. May had thought he did it only to
her. But then others came forth like victims to the same crime. He’d violated all of their spaces and
probably didn’t realize what he’d done.
Or maybe he did. Maybe it was his way of lording over people. Maybe he did it as an intimidation
factor. This time, though, she would look the beast in its eyes. She wouldn’t be bullied today.
As he stood so close, May took in a deep breath. He smelled of a clean-smelling cologne. Not too
overpowering and not a heavy, musky scent. If she didn’t know any better, she would have sworn he’d
just put it on before she entered his office. The light aroma belied his power. But it worked.
She let out her breath to steady her queasy stomach. Why did this guy make her so nervous? She
epitomized a strong, young black woman. Educated, smart, independent. No way a corporate white guy
who probably ate mayonnaise sandwiches without the crust could make her feel intimidated.
But there she was, her knees knocking, her heart pounding, sweat forming on the back of her neck. She
grabbed the doorframe behind her to keep from slipping down to the floor.
“Plans tonight?” he asked.
Without her stopping it, she blinked at his question. Seemed odd he would ask since he’d never asked
her about her life outside of the office. He usually wanted to know how to keep her in the office working
more.
She nodded, cleared her throat then answered. “Yes. Meeting someone.”
He raised his eyebrows. He opened his mouth like he wanted to ask her more questions. She never
noticed the subtle glow of his sun-kissed skin.
Yes, Courtney would be very pissed she missed her date tonight. If the man didn’t speak, he could be
doable.
“Oh.” His tone sounded both curious and almost disappointed. A strange combination. “Thank you for
staying over to do this for me. I appreciate it.”
Just how much did he appreciate it? She tightened her grip on the wall and summoned as much
courage as she could.
“Appreciation can be shown in a lot of ways,” she began.
Biggers’ eyes widened as he moved himself out of the doorway and into the main office, holding his
briefcase in front of himself. “Really?” His tone turned even more curious as though he imagined some
possibility.
Not on his life. The man cared about nothing but himself. Any woman who hooked up with him was
asking for heartache. She’d been through enough to not want it to happen to her again.
Besides, he was her boss. That would have been a violation of Crystal Industries’ Rule Number Twelve.
Among other things, May had time to memorize the company handbook.
She nodded, turned her gaze down for a moment then back to him. “My bonus. A raise, sir. I know it
may not be the right time to ask for them, but---”
“You’re right,” he said, interrupting her. “It isn’t. The company is going through a rough time financially
so there may not be any bonuses this year. Your annual review comes up in another four months. We
can discuss it then.”
Four months? Four fucking months to wait to see if she’ll be granted a raise especially since there won’t
be any bonuses?
Sorry, Granny. Can’t get that medication you need because I have to wait four months for a raise from
my stingy-ass boss! And the story about the company going through its own depression was bullshit.
She knew the financial status of Crystal Industries better than most executives. They had money to
spare.
Instead of screaming at the top of her lungs at this jerk or quitting right on the spot, she smiled and
slipped down into her wobbly chair. The cheap bastard wouldn’t even spring for a decent chair.
“And I know the company encourages individual style to a limit, but in the future I would like to see you
wear appropriate clothing to work.” He nodded toward her. “Nothing with holes in them.”
Her gaze dropped to the newly formed hole in her sweater sleeve. “Sir, you don’t understand. I---”
Without a word, he walked out of the office. She waited to hear the ding of the elevator down the hall
and the subsequent sound of the door sliding behind him before she let out a groan.
That capped off her helluva day.
Snatching the phone from its cradle, she hit the speed dial number to Flower Power, the company’s
floral arranger.
“Flower Power. What occasion can we decorate for you?” the perky salesman asked.
“Hi, Chip. It’s May.”
May stared at her notes. Her anger displayed with each assessment. She ran her finger over the last
two words, ‘feeling inadequate’. She felt the deep grooves and impressions on the page.
“All The Way May!” he chirped. “How are you?”
“Overworked and underpaid.” She let out a long sigh. Feeling inadequate, she thought.
“I hear that. So what can I do for you tonight?”
“Are you still gay?”
“Out and proud.”
“Then I’ll settle for a floral arrangement for Bighead.” She had other nicknames for the man but Bighead
seemed like an okay one to use for now.
“What is it? Funeral? Promotion? Birthday?”
“Ditching a date.” She heard Chip flipping through some papers.
“Ohh, worse kind.” He tsked. “Shoot.”
May described the type of arrangement she would have like to have gotten if a date had dumped her.
Something big, full of roses, babies breath, daisies and calla lilies. After getting a brief rundown of their
different types of vases, May settled on one that sounded the most appealing.
“Anything else?” he asked.
“Yes.” She stared at the trite statement on her notepad. The guy was an asshole but Courtney
deserved better. “The card. Write ‘I wish I could have been there tonight to celebrate. I am proud of
you. Please accept my apologies.’” She struggled with the signature but her romantic side won. “Sign it
‘Love, Win.’”
How could he not love a woman who fought against pornography?
“Oh, girl. Sounds serious.” Chip smacked his lips, audible even through the phone.
If Biggers found out what she did, it would be serious. Or maybe he would thank her. The uptight man
needed to get laid. Then again, so did she. But first thing’s first. Make her boss happy and she would
be happy.
She gave Chip the name and address of the woman who would receive these flowers.
“Anything else?”
May ripped off her notepaper and tossed the wad into the trashcan under her desk. “Yes. You have
any stuffed animals?”
# # #
“To bosses! May they all rot in hell!” Princess clinked her bowl-shaped margarita glass against May’s
and took a healthy gulp of her frozen drink.
May opted to sip her raspberry margarita through a straw. She couldn’t pound her drinks back like
Princess could. But then again, there were a lot of things Princess did that May couldn’t do, and that
went from the guys she dated to the clothes she wore to her questionable employment.
May glanced at her friend’s cleavage revealing top then looked down at her high-neck, long-sleeved
black knit shirt. She remembered how short Princess’s skirt was when she met her in the parking lot.
May’s skirt had to have been three times as long as hers. She didn’t even want to think about footwear.
May had to face it. Where Princess looked ready for a party, May seemed like she was ready to teach
the next school lesson. Looking dowdy worked for her when she went through college. But that life
ended. She needed to do some living.
“So what did that asshole do this time?” Princess asked as she glanced at her while surveying the bar.
“It’s less about him and more about me.” May trailed her finger along the rim of the glass, removing the
grainy sugar then licking it off of her finger.
Princess wanted the heavy rock salt on her rim. One time she even asked if she could have the worm
inside of the tequila bottle. Maybe if May had salt instead of sugar on her glass then she would be as
bold and brash as her friend.
“He told me I had to wait four months for a raise.” May shook her head. “I need the extra dough,
Princess. I’m barely making ends meet as it is and Granny’s meds aren’t getting any cheaper.”
And May had told her financial woes to a woman who looked to have had her hair done by the best
professional in Virginia Beach, clothes that looked designer-made even if they weren’t and rings on
every finger.
“You need a better job,” Princess said.
“Don’t you think I’ve tried? I thought having a degree meant something. All it means now is that I spent
way too much time in school and less learning about real life.” She dipped a fried tortilla chip into some
red, chunky salsa. Put her in her bedroom and give her a good, steamy romance novel and May would
have been in heaven.
“You college graduates,” her friend said and shook her head. “All the book sense in the world but no
common sense to save your lives.”
“That’s why I like hanging out with you, Princess. You always know the right thing to say.” May took a
big drink. The icy cold liquid chilled her teeth to the gums and made her wince. The ice headache that
pierced her brain didn’t help matters either.
“I think I can help you,” Princess said then winked to a man walking by them.
“I don’t want a handout. I want to earn the money on my own.”
Her friend furrowed her eyebrows. “I wasn’t about to give you any money. I was offering you an
opportunity.”
Now it was May’s turn to look confused. “What kind of opportunity?”
She’d known Princess since junior high school and knew her friend had a thing for dancing on the wrong
side of the law. Not necessarily illegal but not quite right either.
Princess reached into her Louis Vuitton bag, real not a knockoff, and pulled out a card. With a bit of
trepidation, May took the card, waited a beat before she read it. Lord only knew what her friend had in
mind.
“The Oh Club. Never heard of it.”
The red card with gold letters proved difficult to read in the dimly lit bar. But held at an angle and into
the only light source May found in the place, she could see the name. Nothing else appeared on the
card except for a phone number. No addresses. No proprietor name. Nothing.
“What is this?” May asked.
“Your ticket to easy money. All you have to do is say yes.”
May stared at the card. Princess was wild but she knew she wouldn’t put her in harms way. And she did
need the money, fast. Easy.
Staring at her friend, she said, “It wouldn’t hurt to look.”
With a big grin, Princess said, “It never hurts to look.”
# # #
Winston pushed his way through the door once he reached the parking garage level. Walking down
twenty-three flights of stairs didn’t get his heart rate going. The fact that the trip came from the twenty-
third floor instead of the twenty-fifth made him grind his teeth.
Two floors. Two fucking floors to the top. Wasn’t enough that he’d given up everything to Crystal
Industries? No family. No real relationship. Working eighty-hour workweeks. But it still hadn’t been
sufficient. And at every turn, someone with their hand out, wanting money or something from him.
“Evening, Mr. Biggers.” A valet driver held his hand out to him, waiting for Winston’s claim ticket.
The gesture seemed almost creepy as though the man knew what Winston had been thinking moments
before.
“Mr. Biggers?” the valet driver asked.
Winston smiled and fished through his pants pocket for the stub. “Long day. Little out of it.”
“I understand, sir.” The young man ran down a row of cars.
As Winston stared at the valet, he was brought back twenty years ago to his own youth. Twenty-one
and carefree. He worked as a waiter at his parents’ country club during the summer. Then when school
started he went to the university he parents wanted him to attend. Except for what he wore, his every
decision had been made for him.
He took in a deep breath, inhaling the car exhaust and cigarette smoke smell that hung in the garage.
Feeling constricted all of the sudden, he unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt. He heard the
rumbling of his vehicle, a black Hummer that Courtney hated.
“It’s destroying the environment,” she’d said.
When he said he wouldn’t be giving it up, waiting and wanting her to argue with him, she conceded.
“You men and your toys.”
Why couldn’t he find a woman strong enough to question him? As soon as the headlights hit him, he
thought of the one woman who had.
Maybelline. May, she wanted him to call her. No, he liked her birth name. It stood out…like her.
Once she wore a black dress that wasn’t meant to be clingy but it did. It hung onto every curve and
swell on her body, accentuating her round breasts, her firm ass and her long legs. Just thinking about
her now caused his cock to twitch and engorge until he had to, again, cover himself with his briefcase. If
he hadn’t done it earlier when he was talking to her, she would have had him up for sexual harassment
charges.
But being near her drove him crazy. Her long, dark brown hair always looked soft. On a few occasions,
he happened to stand behind her at her desk right before she noticed he was there and smelled her
hair. Her scent matched the aroma of the flowers she had delivered to his office. Something wild but
fragrant that he couldn’t quite place.
Her almond shaped eyes drove him to distraction. And her full lips. God help him but he had imagined
them wrapped around his hard-on until he came into her mouth.
He let out a groan as soon as the valet stopped the truck in front of him.
“Win Big,” the young man said as he held open the door.
Many people liked saying the name printed on Winston’s license plates. The name was his father’s
idea, a fact the man still bragged about to this day.
Winston handed the man a twenty. He was feeling generous and nostalgic all at the same time. He
imagined that if he were that man, he would have spent the money on beer and pizza.
As he headed down the street to his house, Winston wondered how Maybelline was spending her time
right now. He knew it wasn’t thinking about him. And if she were thinking of him, it wouldn’t be flattering.
But he couldn’t be kind to her. His kindness would turn into something more. Something physical. And
since Genterson and Pollick couldn’t keep their fucking hands off of each other in the office, the
company emphasized the company policy against office romances.
But as long as he had her there in his office, working for him, that would have to sustain him for now. In
order to keep up his need, he would have to keep suppressed her newly acquired degree.
If human resources knew she had an English degree, they would have snagged her for their training
department. They had asked about her before. But he couldn’t let her go. Not yet. He just needed
more time. More time with her.
From the corner down the street from his house, he activated his garage door opener so that by the
time he reached his driveway, he pulled into the garage without waiting.
Once inside, he did, however, wait until the door closed completely and until the motion sensor light in
the garage went off before he undid the rest of the buttons on his shirt.
His hand moved down to his pants and he unfastened it. Pulling the zipper down, he noticed the sound
of each tooth releasing. Relief waved over him with each click. He closed his eyes and imagined what
Maybelline would have done if she heard him undoing his pants.
She would lick her lips like the way she’d done in his office earlier, maybe even brush her hands over
her breasts. Those magnificent nipples of hers that he’d seen poke out nice and hard during the
summer when he kept the office temperature at an arctic level, would stand out proud, waiting for his
touch, wanting to be licked and sucked.
He pulled out his hard cock. With a firm grip, he stroked his hand up and down the shaft while thinking
of Maybelline.
“More. Give me more,” she would say.
He squeezed harder, being sure to pulse his hand at the tip. Heat filled the truck until sweat covered
him, making his t-shirt and pants stick to his body. In the silent vehicle inside of his garage, he heard his
moans, his cries for a woman who looked at him with hate and disgust in her eyes. If she only knew.
All he would want would be to kiss her, to have her lips against his. Just the thought made him erupt.
His warm sperm shot from him, landing on his shirt, steering wheel and windshield. The new-car smell
that permeated the truck now smelled like sex and new-car smell.
Damn, he needed her. Not any woman. Maybelline Davenport.
When the fanfare died down around Courtney, he would break up with her. It wouldn’t be fair to her to
continue dating. With his mind constantly on Maybelline, he wouldn’t have given her the attention she
deserved.
Besides, the relationship wasn’t that serious. It wasn’t like he’d told her he loved her.