Page 3 of Sinful Negotiations

“Not good enough. I want you on the phone this afternoon until it’s in my hands.”

“But…”

“No excuses, Ms. James.”

Her beautiful mouth opened and closed, but her back stiffened.Please mess up, he thought, so he’d have an excuse to fire her perfect, lush ass and put a stop to this constant tension and temptation. He knew she wanted to end it as badly as he did, but neither could find the strength.

Her eyes narrowed, and she started to turn around but stopped. His cock twitched against his zipper as he reclined in his office chair, daring her to argue. How he’d love to bend her ass over his knee and spank her when they met later. “Something else you don’t have, Ms. James?”

“No, nothing else.”

Aidan focused on his desk instead of the sway of her hips as she left but clenched his jaw when his office door slammed so hard everything trembled. What a wicked temper she possessed.

He deserved the backlash though. His partner told him to stay away from Tessa James, and when he couldn’t, her advice was to be a dick, to keep her at arm’s length, and to not get emotionally involved. This wasn’t his normal, and he didn’t know how much longer he could continue to pretend he didn’t care.

A frown crossed his lips as she hurried to her office. Tessa James deserved more. This war raging in his mind must stop, and duty must come first. Was he angry at himself or her?

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“Prick,”Tessa whispered beneath her breath. He was out of his mind if he thought she’d still come to his place tonight. In the office, he was Mr. Cross. When they had sex, he was Aidan. How could one man be so different depending on the situation? This constant whiplash infuriated her.

She may adore the man who licked her pussy and fucked her senseless, but she hated this condescending asshole.

After a miserable, tense lunch watching him leave without so much as a nod, she fumed at her desk. James’ lawyer couldn’t give her anything as of yet but promised the information would arrive the next week, sometime before the merger happened.

Tessa quickly fired off an email to Aidan and tensed in her chair. She expected a blistering reply, but there was no response. Her eyes lifted to his office. Aidan, or Mr. Cross, stared at his computer, so she knew he received it and deliberately ignored her.

The corner of her lip twitched when she grabbed her cellphone and scrolled to the number without a name attached.“I have other plans tonight,”she typed as a reply to his earlier text. With satisfaction, she deleted the thread, dropped her phone on her desk, and left her office for a minute alone.

Chapter 3

Tessa had become more than an infatuation or conquest. He jeopardized the future of this company each minute he allowed the affair to continue. The plan was clear, and she wasn’t included. The relationship, or whatever it was, must cease. She haunted his thoughts and destroyed his concentration.

He’d never had a woman respond to him on such a visceral level, and he’d been with a lot of women over the years. She was a temptress, a bit of a brat, perfect in every way, and always pushing his buttons.

His gaze lifted, peering over the screen of his computer to the office at the opposite end of this floor. She sat at her desk with hazel eyes focused on the laptop. The professional, controlled exterior pissed him off because he knew the passionate side of her, the scrumptious body underneath the polished business suit, and the delicate curves of her flesh. Hell, he’d licked every inch.

Flashes of her bent over the desk, round ass bouncing against his groin from the force of his thrusts, caused his dick to painfully engorge. Rosy nipples pebbled to stiff peaks every damn time he sucked them, sometimes before he captured one between his lips. Her cream was honey on his tongue, and he ached to feast on her pussy daily. There was no stopping the erotic images in his mind, or the desire raging in his blood.

He’d called her to his office on multiple occasions for counterfeit reasons and been an ass on purpose to see how she’d react. He had to know and had to be sure of her loyalty.

When she leaned over his desk, his hand slid beneath her skirt more than once, and he’d fingered her without anyone ever knowing. She’d orgasmed on his hand, pussy clenching his digits while maintaining a frozen expression on her exquisite face.

Stolen kisses in the elevator left him hard and desiring more. Her sweet, flowery scent lingered in his office, and on hisskin after they’d meet somewhere…many times in this building. She’d rubbed him off more than once, her nails scraping his hard length beneath his trousers.

The deal was set with her uncle. Their businesses would merge within ten days, and the uncle was at a tipping point. Aidan worked night and day on this contract and the case for six months.

When in transition, the Human Resources Manager hired the most qualified applicant. Had he known she was even being considered, he would’ve stopped the hiring process. Damn Human Resources and damn Tessa James. At the top of her class and available, they didn’t even blink before offering her the temporary position.

The pictures on her uncle’s desk didn’t do her justice. The tightly coiled blonde hair secured at her neck was a paradise for his hands. Her fit body set him on fire. Intelligent and dedicated, she astounded him with her consistent accuracy and knowledge.

Those damn business clothes hugged her frame like a second skin, and the stilettos caused her ass to pop, her hips to sway, and shapely legs to go on for miles.

The air was so tense between them it sparked with electricity and created a live current from her body to his. In meetings, he itched to do wicked things and struggled to remain focused. She had become his right hand, a thorn in his ass, and the object of his deepest fantasies.

Attraction morphed into something neither could stop or control. He’d never been with a woman so much younger, but Tessa proved mature beyond her years. Maybe it was the fact she was an only child? Or her time in college, living in an apartment on her own?

Her background check returned clean, and she’d been nothing but honest. Tessa James was everything he could ever want in a woman but could never have.

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