Chapter Fifteen

Only his sudden arrival reminded her of how late it actually was and they were still not done for that day. And only the displeased look on her husband's face made her realize that she probably shouldn't have let him see her like that, working in tête-à-tête with a certain male associate of her firm.

"Could you give us five minutes?" she tried to ease the tension with a smile, but he didn't smile at all as he nodded and turned around.

She followed him with her eyes as he looked around before he walked to the office on the other side of the corridor. She wouldn't have minded if he had gone inside, that was his office after all, even though it wasn't likely he would occupy it anytime soon. As far as she knew he enjoyed his current position at the firm that now he was able to call kind of his own and lately they hadn't even so much as mentioned the possibility of him leaving that behind to join her.

And that was exactly why they had plans for dinner that day, because they simply needed at least one evening out, just the two of them, each week, to try to at least make up for all the time they weren't able to spend together anymore. He came to pick her up and she had been looking forward to it and she silently cursed herself for not having been smart enough to have let her coworker go before his arrival.

"You probably want me to disappear now, right?" she heard Chris' voice that made her turn her focus away from the man who actually entered that glass door over there.

"We could continue tomorrow morning."

"Sure. You have plans for tonight?"

His question was as casual as it could be, she still didn't feel comfortable discussing their plans with him. Especially not with her husband probably watching her every move.

"Yes," she said quickly and started to put the files from the table into her suitcase, initiating that as far as she was concerned the conversation was over.

"Well, see you tomorrow then," he replied, quickly following her lead in packing his files away before he walked out the door with a "Good night" which Diane returned before she turned her attention back to Will.

When she was sure that Chris had already left she walked over to the other office, leaving her things behind on her desk.

"I know I shouldn't be in here, it's just that I had a rough day and for a moment I just wanted to pretend this is my office."

"This is your office," she replied with a smile and she was happy to see his lips curl up as well, "I'm sorry about your day," she said, stepping closer to him, "If it's any consolation my day was quite terrible as well."

"Really? Then we couldn't have chosen a better evening to spend together," he reached out his hand to pull her closer to him.

"Nothing like a dinner with you to cheer up a lousy day," she replied and leaned forward to greet him properly with a kiss.

He kissed her back and she could tell that he really wasn't angry at her for what had happened earlier and it just made her even happier. And he didn't let the kiss end, his lips just kept on tasting hers while his hands not only pulled her close, they also started to make their way up and down her back.

He seemed to have forgotten about where they actually were, because his lips wandered from her lips onto her neck and down the neckline of her dress and his hands felt ready to open the zipper on her back in any moment.

"We can't do this here," she tried to make him stop with her words, but he didn't seem to listen to her.

His hands moved down her dress and they disappeared under her skirt. She had a hard time standing on her two feet already, but she was still aware that it was something that shouldn't happen there, she had to make him stop, even if it wasn't what she really wanted. As he pushed her to a wall, which was the only possible support in the empty office, besides the floor, she quickly considered if it was too late to back away and she decided that it wasn't so she raised her voice a little.

"Will, please!"

He stopped right away and looked curiously in her eyes.

"It's not the right place," she said softly this time and he nodded slightly in understanding before she kissed her on the lips again gently.

"What do you say if we skip dinner this time?" he asked as he let her stand on her feet securely again, removing his hands from her body.

"I love the idea," she kissed him one last time and took his hand to guide him outside.