Page 11 of Don't Quit the Day Job

"If you keep this up, you're not going to be either. At least not for me." I give her a pointed glance and rub my stomach. “Do you want this job?”

"Please don't fire me," she mumbles. "It really wouldn't make me feel good to get fired on my first day. Especially as it hasn’t even been ten minutes since I got the job." She pauses. "Well, maybe it's been twenty minutes. I don't know."

I continue staring at her without saying a word.

"You're going to fire me, aren't you?" She sighs deeply and rubs her forehead. "Look, I know. I'm not the ideal assistant or the best paralegal in the world, and I talk too much, but I am a quick learner and I really need this job."

"You're not the best paralegal or assistant in Manhattan. In fact, you're not the best assistant in this building. Maybe I made a mistake in hiring you so quickly." I will not tell her that I never would have hired her if it hadn't been for the bet.

"I get it," she says, taking a step closer to me. "But you're the one that hired me knowing that I'm an actress, or wannabe actress, and I’m guessing that was because you saw my potential." Her eyes are beseeching as she pleads with me.

"Potential for what?" I let out a long sigh. “I mean, if you were really serious about becoming an actress, wouldn't you have gone to the audition?"

"So you're judging me now. You're saying that I gave up before I even started?"

"I didn't say that."

"But that's what you're thinking."

"No, I think that's what you're thinking," I counter. "Why didn't you go to the audition? You came all this way across town for it. Right?"

She blinks and nods slowly. "I couldn't cry," she finally says.

"What?"

"I couldn't cry." She sighs. "One of the lines, you have to be really emotive and cry and I couldn't get the tears out. It was like I'd never experienced heartbreak or hurt in my life. And trust me when I say I have experienced heartbreak and hurt. In fact, I was dating this guy that..." She pauses. "I guess you don't really want to know about him."

"Unless you're going to tell me some exciting story about how you were dating a dominant and you were submissive and it’s a scintillating story, then no, I don’t care to hear about it."

"What?" she says loudly, her hand clasping over her mouth a moment later.

"Why are you looking shocked now, Lila?" My patience is leaving me.

"Did you just ask me if I'm a submissive? Are you a dom?" Her jaw drops as she paces back and forth. "Oh my gosh. Is this going to be one of those moments where you pull out a contract and then ask me to get into some dom-sub relationship with you? Is that why you're offering to pay me so much money? Oh my, I cannot believe this. I thought that was something that only happened in books and movies and on Tiktok.” Her eyes look me up and down like she’s considering an offer I never made. I am about to kick her out of my office when she runs her hands down the side of her body and looks me up and down like she’s actually excited about the idea.

I should tell her to leave my office.

But she’s so cute.

She will only bring drama to my life.

But I want to see her without her skirt on.

She will not make a good assistant.

But she will make you laugh.

She will put me behind in my work.

But watching her ride you in the mirror would be hot as hell.

Fuck it, I’m in trouble. I have been since the moment I looked at her.

I hold my hand up. "I don't know what books you are reading or what movies you're watching, but I'm not pulling out any contract or asking you to be my sub." I snort slightly. "Though, it would be interesting to see if you could play that role well.” My mind wonders what it would be like to have Lila as my submissive. I’d love to have her lying on a bed, tied to the headboard with handcuffs, while running a long feather down her naked body. I wonder if she's ticklish.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asks indignantly, interrupting my sexy thoughts.

"I mean you haven't shut up since I met you and a good sub wouldn’t be as mouthy as you." Not that I’ve ever had one. Though, there is something quite exciting about the idea of taking Lila to the top of the mountain and making her wait for release.

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