Chapter 78

There’s a knock on the door, and I pounce away from him guiltily, leaning back and creating distance, shame washing over me that I’m this weak anytime he gets those lips near mine and push him back as I struggle to the floor. Sense hitting hard, hands removed from his crotch while he grins at me for that last fondle, and something deep inside me yells curse words at my lack of willpower.

It’s not the most ladylike of efforts, but as reality slaps me around the head, that thirty seconds more, I would have been on my knees sucking the hell out of him, goading him to let me screw him on the desk, it’s a sobering shake.

Alexi looks bemused, almost as though he can hear all my thoughts, and he knows where we were heading, but helps me get back on my feet. With my dress smoothed down again before calling out.

“Come in.”

He watches me right myself, and I press my palms to my cheeks to cool the heat flushing all over my body. My heart bursting out of my chest as thou