Page 43 of My Forbidden Boss

Slowly, so slowly, she turns. She flattens her hands against the door, looks at me over her shoulder, eyes large and luminous and god how my dick kicks with every heartbeat.

“Eyes to the front,” I say.

I don’t miss her gasp as her head swivels back, but she does as I instruct instinctively. If she wants to survive in my world, she needs to do as I instruct. She needs to trust me.

I stand behind her, savoring the way she looks, hands on the door, open and vulnerable, but doing as I ask. She needs to know I’m on her side. That I’ll support her no matter what anyone says.

There will be comments about the nature of our relationship. Snide remarks. I’ll help her rise above that because nothing matters but what we think about ourselves. I’ll prepare her because I’ve made up my mind about her.

And I get what I want.

I want Adeline for more than a weekend. More than a week. I want to see how far we can go, good decision or not. I’m past caring. I place my hands over hers. Her hands tremble, the bones fine, so fragile, and yet I see her strength. I raise her hands so they’re spread at head height, and nuzzle her neck. “Why didn’t you return my calls? I phoned you several times.”

She takes in a shivery little breath. “Your daughter.”

I take her earlobe into my mouth and gently suck. “What about my daughter?”

“She…she came and I…I was in the way,” she says.

Anger flares hearing her say she’s in the way, but I stamp it down and wonder what’s happened to her to lead her to believe it. I trace the top of her ear with my tongue. “If you’d stayed instead of leaving, I would have introduced you to her, but you didn’t give me a chance.”

She peers at me, trying to see my lie. There’s none to see.

“Eyes on the door,” I say.

She turns her head. I move my hands from hers, along her arms and across her shoulders, tracing her body lightly. I press my erection against her soft bottom, delighting in the catch in her breath and ignore the heat that races through my body. “Steph surprised me. She doesn’t come home often, but had a few days off and thought it would be nice for us to spend some time together. I rang to ask you to join us.”

I trace her waist, letting my hands drop to her hips and then her thighs. Her body shakes, as affected by my touch as I am by hers. So responsive.

“No…I…had to get back home,” she says.

I nip her back of her neck, loving when she leans her forehead against the door, hating that she calls that hovel her home. “I wanted you to stay with me.”

“No one can know,” she says. Her voice shakes and it’s with more than what I’m doing to her.

I let my thumb flow over her pussy, loving her little jerk. “Why can’t anyone know, Adeline?”

“Because, we…” she chokes off.

She needs more persuasion to tell me what she’s thinking. I bend and slip my hands beneath the hem of her skirt. It’s the same skirt she wore every day last week. I draw the material up her legs, baring the back of her thighs, vowing to buy her all the clothes in the world. I’ll get her to let me. “If you let me tell people about us, we don’t have to pretend.”

“That’s…no.” Her soft hair falls over her shoulder when she shakes her head.

A frown tightens my brow. Not one woman in my past has wanted to keep a relationship with me secret, but they were after my money, my reputation and my social standing. They wanted what I could give them without really wanting me. That’s why every one of them failed.

That’s why Adeline is different, and it only makes me want her more.

This has to be her decision, but persuasion is one of my strengths.

“Then I’ll have to show you that you have nothing to worry about.” I say. The material bunches about her waist as I expose her rounded bottom. Not touching her is beyond me.

My fingers curve on her smooth skin. I knead her perfect flesh and press my cock against her. Sparks erupt through me. Feels so good and I can’t stop. Need more.

I drop to my knees.

“What are you..?”

She gasps as I give into temptation, show her just how determined I am to make her mine and press my face against her body.

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