Page 31 of The Rules Of Attraction
Of course because I was thinking of sex, my damn face felt hot, and my skin prickled with the heat from the memory. I didn’t need to guess if I was blushing because I knew I was and I’d now lost the ability to think of anything else besides him.
He stopped just before me with those amazing eyes, now dark liquid silver, which I’d come to know meant he was turned on.
And, I shouldn’t have known that because he was my new boss.
I had a one night stand with him and now I was here at the place that was supposed to give me that fresh start.
“Angel,” he said with that smooth voice that filled my ears with pleasure only hours ago. God, it was only about three hours ago since I last kissed him. “We could have had a much better day if you’d stayed with me.”
I watched the slow easy smile inch across his face and my breathing constricted even more.
Taking the ends of my ponytail he curled it around his thumb and beamed down at me causing something I didn’t want to flicker in my heart.
It was then that I realized that I couldn’t do this. I couldn’t work here. It didn’t matter what working here would do for me.
I stepped back and the curl unfurled itself from his thumb.
“I can’t.” Was all I could say.
Confusion filled his handsome features, but I didn’t stay to hear his next words.
I rushed away, going back through the door.
I couldn’t do it, work here.
My luck was absolute shit.
Who went to a club to blow off steam after finding out that their ex best friend and ex-boyfriend were getting married only to land themselves in bed with a man comparable to a god, then find out that the godlike man was their new boss?
I didn’t know anyone that had ever happened to, and all practically in one day.
Only me.
* * *
“Eilesh, I need another job.”That was the first thing I blurted when she answered her phone.
“What!” Eilesh shrieked. “Are you kidding me? Summer this is the job that will put you back on the market, the ladder. Damn it why do you need another job?”
How did I say this? I was on the verge of another bout of tears and I didn’t want to beat about the bush trying to find an excuse that she’d accept.
I was so embarrassed to tell her what happened though. But I had to.
“I slept with my boss,” I replied.
“Holy shit!” Eilesh cried and then started coughing like she was choking. There were a few seconds when her coughs sounded far away so I assumed she’d moved the phone away from her ear.
“Eilesh, are you okay?” I didn’t want her to choke to death. “Eilesh.” I sat up and rested against the head board of my bed. The thing creaked and something shuffled underneath.
I had this worry ever since I’d moved in that the apartment may have … ugh, I dreaded to even think the word.
Mice…
Thinking it sent shivers down my spine. Back home when we had mice my dad used to take care of that situation before it could enter my mind. We had them when we lived in the farm house.
“Damn it woman, you’re going to kill me.” Eilesh came back on the phone, voice sounding gravelly. “You’re supposed to be the friend who does everything sane, and right. No shocks.”
“I hear you, and that was the very problem. For one night I just decided that I didn’t want to be old fucking reliable Summer.”
