Once Dean stepped outside, he took a deep breath of fresh air. He had to act fast now and convince Carmen that he hadn't been at the hotel to mess with his brother.

He arrived at Carmen's office in the city in no time and entered the huge building where the local newspaper that Carmen was working for was based.

He knocked on her office door and stepped inside. Carmen was talking heatedly to someone on the phone, ignoring him.

Dean opened his mouth to speak but Carmen held up a finger, signaling him to shut up. Dean raised his eyebrows, genuinely offended.

He wasn't used to being ignored, no one ignored Dean Winchester!

Finally, Carmen ended the phone call and turned to him with a weary smile. "What are you doing here?" She asked frowning.

Dean huffed and stepped closer to her desk. "I'm glad to see you too, my love." He said sarcastically.

Carmen chuckled, got up from her seat and walked around her desk till she was standing in front of him. "That's not what I meant and you know it. I thought you were drowned in work."

Dean started to smile nervously, seeing Carmen had caught on. She was looking intently at him with a knowing smile on her face.

"I'm taking a break." Dean replied weakly and Carmen crossed her arms over her chest. She didn't say anything and it started to scare him.

Eventually, he caved, seeing he had no other choice. "Sam told you already." He stated and Carmen laughed.

"Actually, no. He didn't rat you out. He just pretended to be looking for you. But Dean..." Carmen said with an amused smile. "I've been with you for the past two hundred and ten years, I know when you're lying to me."

Dean ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to see her...but I swear, I didn't do anything. I left right away again."

Dean looked like a remorseful little boy and Carmen felt sorry for him. He was just too curious and couldn't wait for Sam to finally get his mate.

"We'll get to know her soon." Carmen said softly. "Yeah, I know." Dean replied, pausing for a minute.

"I'm so sorry, I broke my promise, baby." He suddenly confessed, taking Carmen aback. She tried to read what was on his mind but she wasn't able to see through the expression on his face.

"I promised not to mess with Sam." Dean broke off, searching for the right words. "I mean, you and I, we're still pretty unstable, let's face it. So, how are you supposed to trust me again when I'm lying to you and breaking my promises?" He ended passionately.

Carmen couldn't help the smile that stole its way onto her face. Seeing Dean standing in her office and talking about their relationship like he'd never done before made her fall in love with him all over again. She could see it in his eyes how important their relationship to him still was.

Carmen softly cupped his face with her hands and pressed a light kiss on his lips before pulling away.

"Dean..." She started quietly. "I'm still trusting you, honey. You never have to worry about that. And you should start trusting me. I know we're still recovering but we're going to be fine. I promise."

Dean smiled weakly at her and pulled her closer for a kiss. He kissed her so softly, his lips moving gently against hers, that Carmen thought she was going to pass out from the electric feel of Dean's lips on hers.

The next moment they were interrupted by a knock on the door and Dean groaned in frustration. Carmen smiled at his impatience and took her seat behind her desk again to look businesslike and efficient and not like she had just shared the most earth-shattering kiss with the hottest man alive.

"Come in." She said, a little breathless.

The door opened and in walked a young man in a flawless black suit. Dean raised his eyebrows in suspicion.

"Hey Carmen. I'm bringing your mail. Oh and Mr Davis wanted you to call him back." He said and put the pile of mail as well as a note with a phone number on it on Carmen's desk.

"Thank you, honey. Would you bring me and Mr Winchester some coffee, please? Thanks." Carmen flashed him a bright smile and the poor guy blushed.

"Of course. No problem." He mumbled and hurried awkwardly out of the office. Carmen chuckled, amused by his reaction, but when she saw Dean's face she stopped abruptly.

"What's the matter, baby?"

Dean spun around and glared at her. "Are you serious? Who's the chucklehead?"

Carmen looked over to the door, as if noticing just now that someone had actually walked in and back out again.

"Oh, that was Jason. My assistant." She said proudly and Dean's mouth gaped open. "And you didn't even bother telling me?"

Carmen realized that Dean was really upset. She got up and walked around her desk again, took a seat on top of it and faced Dean.

"Talk to me." She demanded when she saw Dean was shutting her out. But Dean stayed silent and Carmen got impatient. "Dean, come on. I've never had an assistant before. You know how great it is to have a doormat where you can unload all your work?" She tried to joke but Dean's expression didn't change.

"I can't believe that you have a male assistant!" Dean whispered furiously and then stepped a little closer, lowering his voice, so no one could hear him say the next words.

"And he's one of us!"

Carmen smiled brightly at his words. "I know, it's awesome. I don't have to lie to him about anything, it makes it that much easier."

Carmen noticed that Dean was still pissed and she liked it. It was wrong to be happy about it but she couldn't help herself. She crossed her legs and kinked an eyebrow, an amused smile playing on her lips.

"You're really happy now, aren't you?" Dean asked annoyed, looking down at her. The anger was evident in his eyes.

"Oh yeah. Dean Winchester is jealous and this time..." She paused for effect. "I didn't do anything to provoke it. You know how hard I've been trying to make you jealous on purpose over the past few years? And now, finally, it's working! Gotta love the irony, babe."

Dean chuckled bitterly. "Why does he have to work for you anyway? Couldn't they assign him to someone else?"

"Well, he's new and I'm the best on our floor. So, I have to recruit him." Carmen said suggestively, she just had to tease Dean some more.

Dean squinted his eyes at her, hearing those words and Carmen decided to let him off the hook."Dean, you have nothing to worry about. Are you really that immature?" She said with a laugh. "He's twenty-five and all baby-faced, you don't have to feel threatened by him." She added.

"Really? So, that's why you never told me about him?" Dean said sarcastically but a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth as he felt the anger subside.

Carmen's explanation was convincing and plausible.

If she did anything, he would notice anyway. The thought comforted him a little and he decided to give in.

He stepped closer to her and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sorry, I was taken by surprise and I overreacted." Dean said and kissed her softly on the lips.

"It's okay, I love it when you're jealous."

A frown appeared on his face and Carmen looked quizically at him. "What is still bothering you?"

"How long has he been working for you?"

Carmen hesitated at first but told him the truth eventually. "For almost a year." She said quietly and Dean blinked a few times, processing the information.

"Dean, I'm really sorry. But that's why I never got the chance to tell you about Jason! When he had started to work for me we weren't really...you know. I mean, you've been barely around and you've hardly talked to me. I'd thought you weren't interested in me and my life at all."

Carmen broke off, just in time before her voice could have started to tremble. It still hurt too much to talk about the past.

Dean looked for a couple of minutes silently at her and then pulled her close to his chest and kissed her on the forehand.

"Again...I'm so sorry." He whispered in her ear after a while and Carmen tried to get her breathing under control. She didn't want to start crying again, there was no reason to, anyway.

Things between her and Dean were getting better, weren't they?

"If I could wipe out the past few years, I would do it in a heartbeat." Dean said softly and Carmen looked up at him. "I don't want us to go back to that dark place ever again.

"Neither do I. But Dean, we have to move past this already, I can't keep living like this. Couples fight all the time, don't they? So, lets close that chapter of our lives and don't look back."

"Sounds good to me." Dean said with a smile."Only difference is, our fight lasted several years." He added with a crooked smile and Carmen smiled back sadly at him. "Yeah, well...we're not a normal couple."

She leaned in and kissed him again. Dean pressed her with her back down onto the desk, surprising her with his roughness. He forced her to deepen the kiss and Carmen parted her lips willingly. She started to shiver when Dean's hands moved impatiently down her body, tracing every curve.

She groaned when she felt his hands slip under her skirt and further up her thigh. Dean cupped her butt and pressed her to his lower body, hearing Carmen let out another moan. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to think straight.

She couldn't have sex with Dean in her office, it was wrong.

Besides that, wasn't there something...she tried her best to concentrate-which was hard because Dean's hands were roaming over her body, making her weak-and then she remembered her meeting.

Finally, she found the strength to pull away. "Dean, whoa...slow your roll, Winchester." She chuckled breathless and Dean stopped immediately and looked down at her, disappointed.

"You really do want me to stop?" He asked in shock. "You're evil, sweetheart."

"I'm sorry but I have a meeting in twenty minutes and I don't want to show up there all..." She searched for the right word. "...flushed and disorganized."

Dean laughed at her weak response and watched as she hopped of the desk to check her appearance in the mirror on the wall.

As she glanced at herself in the mirror, she felt Dean's hot gaze on her body and she groaned inwardly. Did he really think she'd wanted to stop?

If she could she would take the rest of the day off and go home with him to play the game for adults.

Dean leaned against the desk and tried to hide his disappointment. He was still turned on and it didn't help seeing his beautiful girl in her strict business outfit and with a dreamy expression on her face. She was more than perfect and he couldn't wait until the night to have her finally all to himself again.

"Do you really have a business meeting tonight or did you make that up, too?" Carmen suddenly asked, remembering their conversation from the morning, and interrupted Dean's naughty thoughts.

"Yeah, that part's actually true." He said sheepishly. "When will you be home?" Dean asked, making Carmen smile. It had been such a long time since the last time he'd asked her that.

"Around five." She answered and wrapped her arms around his neck. "That gives us three hours before your business partners show up."

"Sounds perfect." He answered and started to kiss her neck. "Okay, you have to go. You're too distracting." Carmen said and stepped quickly behind her desk, saving herself from the temptation.

"She's really kicking me out." Dean said amused and opened the door. "I'm waiting for you." He added softly, turning to leave.

"Dean." He heard Carmen call out and he turned back around, waiting for her to continue.

Carmen admired the man standing in the doorway of her office for a few minutes.

She felt her body start to tingle at the sight of him. He was really hers, after over two hundred years. She still couldn't believe it.

"I love you." She whispered quietly, so only Dean would hear.

Standing in the doorway, hearing Carmen declaring her love to him, Dean felt a white wave of pure hot love wash over him.

His throat tightened and he couldn't speak. He was too shocked, he'd never felt something like that before-not even when he'd seen Carmen in his dreams for the first time. He'd never thought it was even possible to feel or have such strong feelings for someone.

He calmed himself, hoping Carmen wouldn't notice how touched he was. He flashed a quick smile and winked at her before turning around and leaving the office.

A/N: Here's the next chapter, hope you liked! Thanks to all of you out there who are still reading this story, it really means a lot. Big thanks to subtlelife, cold kagome and Dean's Dirty Little Secret for reviewing the last chapter!