Chapter Eleven

"Are you ready to leave?" he appeared in the doorway of her office later that evening.

"Not yet, give me five minutes," she said quickly, looking at him shortly then got back to her notes.

"That's a lot, this day's been so long even with our short secret meeting," she heard his voice again and she rolled her eyes as she lifted her gaze to his face once more.

"Why don't you just leave and I'll see you later? I thought we would try to avoid being seen come and go together," she reminded him of their deal and turned her attention to her brief again.

"Damn, I knew I have forgotten something. What about one tiny kiss to make this wait more bearable?"

She couldn't believe her ears and even her subsequent eye roll couldn't properly express her feelings.

"Here in my office? No way!" she stated simply, without even as much as touching her glasses, indicating that she didn't give any thought to his words at all.

"We can always pull down the blinds," he offered and his statement actually caused her some amusement.

"Maybe your office is a place you use for such purposes, but mine isn't. Nothing will happen between us here, I assure you," she meant what she said, she really had no intention to break more taboos that day.

"I wouldn't be so sure," he challenged her with the tone of his voice and she heard him close the door behind him.

"What are you doing?" she asked, seeing that he started to pull down the blinds on the glass windows.

"It's none of anyone's business what you do in the privacy of your office," he proposed the obvious and even though she knew that probably no one was around anymore and no one would dare to enter her office without knocking first when the blinds were down, she still had no intention of obeying his wishes. Not there, not that day.

"But I just want to finish work and go home, don't you want to go home as well?" she made an offer she thought to be a negotiable one, but he didn't seem to be tempted to accept.

"Too late, you are not going anywhere," he replied, finishing up with the blinds and started walking towards her.

"So you cannot really behave after all?" she asked, taking her glasses off, seeing that there wasn't anything more she could try to change his mind.

"You started this whole thing this morning, I'm just finishing it," he said as he stepped close to her and pulled her up from her seat.

"Don't you dare blame it on me again!" she threatened him playfully and her words made him chuckle.

"But it's your fault!" he declared and leaned forward to kiss her.

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"We really need to try harder to behave in the office. We pretty much screwed up on the first day, twice," she said later that night when they were both lying in her bed in each other's arms.

"I know. I promise I will try harder tomorrow, I won't even so much as look at you," he solemnly promised.

"You should definitely refrain from whispering to my ear," she whispered to him and he smiled.

"I will try," he replied moving his lips close to her ear then to her lips that already longed for his again.

There was no use denying that his lips near her ear turned her on, it was one of the most dangerous things he could do to her, it was only less dangerous at that moment when he could actually give her what she longed for right away and that was basically the fifth time that day.

o-o-o

"It would look odd if we started to avoid each other completely," she got back to their previous topic after a while, because she was still unable to fall to sleep, the next day still bothered her too much.

"But do you have a better idea, because basically we are not able to stay long in the same room together without wanting more," he summed up their current relationship quite properly.

"Let's try to go out of each other's way then, unless it's really necessary to meet. No fake or secret meetings, just work," she suggested, without thinking of how hard it would actually be to make this happen.

"All right, but I already miss you," he said, placing a kiss on her shoulder.

"I'm right here and I will be here this time tomorrow as well," she promised and after a last kiss on his lips she finally ventured to fall asleep.