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“I’m more than okay,” she agreed. “Please move.” He didn’t need to be asked twice to take what he wanted from her. He pumped into her body, slamming her against the wall with every thrust. He worried that he was hurting her, but when she cried out his name, her pussy milking his cock, he knew that she loved every minute of what he was doing to her.

Evan lost himself deep inside of her, pressing her against the wall between it and his body as she panted, trying to catch her breath. “Are you good?” he asked.

“Yes,” she whispered against the crook of his neck. “Are you?” she asked. He wanted to tell her that he wasn’t good. He was nowhere near it because now, he wasn’t going to ever be able to work her out of his system. He was sure that his promise of one night was going to end up with her in his bed permanently, and Evan was just fine with that.

Carrie

Carrie’s father finally arrived in town the next week. Alex and Rod picked him up at the airport and Alex insisted that her dad stay with him and his family. She wanted to protest and tell him that he could stay with her and Evan, but then, she’d have to admit that they were practically living together, and that wasn’t something that she was ready to share with anyone—especially her cousins. She had spent every night over the past week in Evan’s bed, and she had no plans on giving up her new sleeping arrangements any time soon, so her father staying with Alex worked for her.

He had come up with some crazy excuse about his passport being held up in Scotland, but she could see the faint outlines of the bruises on her father’s face. Someone had worked him over good and he was waiting for the bruises to fade. “Dad,” she breathed, “I can see the old bruises on your face and I’m guessing that the cast on your arm isn’t just for decoration.” Yeah, he had forgotten to come up with a good excuse for the cast on his right arm. She was betting that the same person who had given him the bruises had also broken her poor father’s arm.

“You were always too smart for your own good,” he teased. Yeah, except when it came to believe that her ex was a criminal who wanted nothing more than to hurt her and now her family. She hated that this was happening to all of them because of her dumb decisions. “Don’t look at me that way,” her father insisted. “You did the right thing by getting away from him.”

“How did you do that?” she asked.

“Do what?” he questioned.

“You read my mind,” she accused.

“I just know you, little girl. I always have and always will. So, you want to tell me why you seem to be so happy these days?” her father asked. When she left him a month ago and moved to America, she was in constant tears and miserable about all of the changes in her life. But now, anyone would be able to see that she was happy again and it had everything to do with her new boss.

“I’m just happy,” Carrie lied. “I like it here.” They were sitting in Alex’s office waiting for him and Rod to get out of a meeting before they would take her dad to Alex’s house to get some much-needed rest. Her father looked exhausted after such a long trip.

“Even given everything that has happened? You can’t even go back to your apartment. How can you be so happy? You don’t need to pretend for me, Carrie,” her father insisted.

“Evan has been very nice to let me stay with him, and I guess I just feel safe,” she said. It wasn’t a lie. She did feel safe with Evan at his home. Carrie was just sure to leave out the part about falling into Evan’s bed every night.

“He’s your boss,” her father reminded her.

“I’m aware,” she said.

“Doesn’t staying with him get in the way of you both working together?” he asked.

“Not at all. Evan and I work together very well.” That was also the truth. The two of them had found a way to keep their work life separate from their personal life—partly out of her not wanting her cousins to find out about their budding relationship and partly because she was worried about the two parts of her life getting tangled up together.

“I’m glad to hear that,” her father said. “When do I get to meet this new boss of yours?” Evan was hiding away in his office, claiming that he wanted to give her and her cousins time with her father, but she knew he was nervous about meeting her father. He might not be meeting him as her lover, but Carrie was sure that he was still nervous about meeting her dad as her boss.

“Um, let me run and see if he’s available,” she said. “Are you good to stay here for a few minutes?” she asked.

“I am,” her father agreed, “Alex’s office is bigger than our whole house.” She was well aware. Her father was going to be shocked at the size of Alex’s actual home.

“Okay, I’ll be right back,” she promised. She quickly hurried down the hallway to Evan’s office and knocked on his door. He called for her to come in and she pushed her way into his office.

“My father’s here,” she said.

“I gathered,” he said. “I know that Rod and Alex are both in a meeting and I thought that I’d give you both some time to catch up.”

“That’s very sweet of you,” she said, “but, he’d like to meet you.”

“Meet me?” he questioned.

“Yes.” Carrie looked him over and she could tell that he had something that he wanted to say.

“Go on, say what you want to say to me, Evan,” she said. Even after only being together for a little over a week, she seemed to know him.

“I’d really like to meet your father as your boyfriend,” he said, “not just your boss.”

“Boyfriend?” she asked. “Is that what we’re calling you now? That would make me your girlfriend,” she teased.

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