Chapter 16-In The Air Tonight

After being stuck in the lobby for nearly an hour, I was moved to the security office in the back of the building. Apparently I was harassing people as they came in...

I stand by what I said, asking a random woman to take off her pants is not harassing. I even offered to pay the woman for it...My cheek was still stinging from where the guard had hit me, apparently, the lady was his wife.

They moved me back here, I was handcuffed to a pipe on the wall, I told them if there was a fire I would die, the guard told me that fact was incentive to burn down the building. I didn't find that funny.

"So much hostility, and I only have the fondest admiration for you."

He flipped me off and walked out.

The clock on the wall said it had been an hour and a half before I heard voices in the hall. The door opened and the security guard walked in, followed by Josef.

"Aw...honey, I told you this threesome would only happy if you brought another girl...not another man." I said with smile to the guard.

Josef just stared at me for a second, like he wasn't sure if it was really me sitting there.

"So, are you going to un-cuff me or just stare at me?"

Josef turned and glared at the guard. "Get her free, now!"

The guard stood there shocked for a second.

"Go! Now!"

The guard jumped and literally ran towards me.

He got the cuffs undone, it hurt when I moved my arms. I was stiff from being stuck in that position for so long. When I looked up, Josef had pushed the guard out the way, he put his hand out to help me up.

He looked me over, and ran his thumb across the red mark still present on my cheek.

"Who hit her?"

The guard was silent. His facial expression was pure fear.

"I asked you, who hit her?"

I knew that Josef knew who had hit me, he just wanted to hear the guard say it.

"Um...I...uh...I did sir..."

Josef nodded. He pulled a key out of his pocket and handed it to me.

"Wait for me in my office, you don't want to be down here for this."

I nodded, and took his keys. When I walked by the guard, he wouldn't look me in the eye.

If I wasn't hurting so bad, I would probably feel sorry for him.

-Josef's Office-

When I opened his office door I gasped. Then started laughing.

His leather couch was gone. It was replaced by a large fabric one. Yea, he scored major brownie points for this one.

I waited for nearly 20 minutes before he finally showed up. We stared at each other for a few minutes.

"What are you doing here?"

"I missed you."

He nodded. But didn't say anything.

"Look, Josef, I know that you don't want to see me, you've been, well, avoiding me, but, I've been absolutely miserable without you..."

He gave me a weird look. "I haven't been avoiding you."

I sighed. "No, you've been shutting me out..."

"I figured that's what you wanted, to be free of me, so that's what I'm giving you...your freedom back."

I stood up, and walked to where I was standing right in front of him.

"I thought that I wanted that too, but, if that means loosing you all together, I don't think I could handle that."

He narrowed his eyebrows at me. "You are the most confusing girl I've ever met...and that's saying something."

I looked away from him. "I know."

He put his finger under my chin and turned me to face him.

"If you would make up your mind, it would make my life so much easier."

"I'm sorry, I mean, I don't want you to always read my mind, and always be in my dreams, but I do want you in my life...at least as a friend."

"Why Toni, it sounds like you don't hate me as much as you'd like me to believe."

"You know, it's those comments that make me want to kick you in the balls."

He laughed. I smiled at him.

"You got a new couch."

He nodded. "Yes I did."

"Why?"

He smiled at me. "I figured it would make you happy."

"It does."

"Good..."

We stood there in silence, both unsure what to say.

I looked at my feet for a while, I could still feel his eyes on me.

Suddenly, I felt something snap in my mind. I felt an overbearing need to touch him, to feel his skin against mine. The feeling was strong it too my breath away. I heard a gasp, I knew Josef felt it to.

My eyes slowly ran up his body, he was breathing heavy too. When I reached his eyes they had turned a silver-blue color. I'd never seen them that color. My mom had told me that when a vampires about to feed or feeling a very strong emotion, their eyes change.

He reached his hand out to my face, when his fingers traced my cheek it felt like electricity. I turned my face into his hand. He gave me a smile. Those beautiful eyes stared at me.

I reached out pushed his coat off his shoulders, I ran my hands down his chest to the part where his suspenders snap onto his pants. I undid them, then started working on the buttons of his shirt. I never realized how many buttons there was on a mans shirt.

I pushed his shirt off and I heard it hit the floor behind him. I ran my hands down his bare chest, I heard a small moan escape his lips.

"No fair." He said looking down at me.

He pulled me against him and I could feel the affect that my hands had on him. He ran his hands down my back, I shivered. When his hands came back up, he pulled my shirt with it. I don't think I've ever met a man who could take off a woman's bra so easily.

He leaned down and put his lips to mine, I felt my knees give out. His arms tightened around me, he was the only thing keeping me from hitting the ground.

He kissed along my jawline, then nibbled on my ear.

"It's great to know I have such an effect on you." He whispered.

"I could say the same thing." I said as I grinded my hips against his crotch. He moaned and I smiled.

My hands moved to his pants and started to unbutton them. I dropped his pants and underwear at the same time.

He smirked at me. "Patience is virtue."

"Not at times like this."

His hands worked at undoing my blue jeans, he soon pulled them and my underwear off.

I ran my hands up behind his neck, he picked me up and I wrapped my legs around him. We ended up with my butt sitting on his big desk.

We were both out of breath when it was over, he laid his head on my shoulder, trying to catch his breath.

I started laughing.

"What?" He asked in between breaths.

"If I would have known that I would get this kind of welcome, I would have come by a long time ago."

He laughed.

God I had missed that laugh.