Free Layers: Book One by Tl Alexander

believe you.”
    I need to rescue myself from my own big mouth. I’m not ready to get into things, with Jaxson. Not yet, anyway. If there is one thing I’m good at—it’s distraction.
    I glide my ass to the middle of Jaxson’s desk.
    He lifts a brow.
    With the toe of my Choo I roll his chair forward. Once I get him where I want, I kick off my heels and rest my bare feet on his thighs.
    He licks his lips and I follow his gaze as it travels up my bare legs, pausing at the edge of my skirt that has settled high on my thighs. He bites down on his lower lip. Then his eyes latch onto mine.
    “Are you comfortable, Ms. Keith?”
    “No, not quite, Mr. Ryan.” I run my toes further up his thighs and plant a foot on each side of his growing erection. “Now I’m comfy.” I sigh and lean back on my palms.
    He leans back in his chair. “I like that dress that you’re almost not wearing.”
    “I like the way you’re looking at my dress that I’m almost not wearing. I’ll have to thank my personal professional shoppers and their shopping app.”
    “What?”
    “Marco and Jules. If it weren’t for them I’d be sitting on your desk in shorts and a tee.”
    “I wouldn’t have a problem with that. My preference would be that you sit on my desk wearing nothing at all.”
    “You’re pretty easy to please, Mr. Ryan. I like that about you.”
    “What are you doing Ms. Keith?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “I think you’re trying to distract me, from the nothing that is obviously something.”
    “If I am, it must not be working.”
    “Oh it’s working.” He grabs my right foot and rubs in over his very big and very hard erection.
    “One of these days you’re going to have to let me in, Lex. Your little games of distraction are…stimulating, but I want more than, stimulation from you.”
    “I’m working on it, Jaxson.”
    He sighs. I need your decision Ms. Keith. I have a meeting in an hour and then I’m off to LA for a week.”
    “Okay, I’ll do it. I’ll stay at your estate.”
    “You will?”
    “You look surprised.”
    “Happily.”
    “I have one condition.”
    “Okay, so here it comes—the Alexia killjoy bomb.”
    I lift a brow. “Really. Am I really that bad?”
    “Sometimes.”
    “Sorry.”
    “Go ahead, tell me your condition.”
    “To clear my name I hire who I want and conduct the investigation how I want.”
    “Is this a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ situation?”
    “Yes.”
    He contemplates before he answers. “Okay. I have a condition of my own.”
    “Okay.”
    “I handle the investigation of Will Harris and the outside audits. I don’t want you involved, anymore than you are.”
    “Okay, I’ll stick to the embezzlement investigation. You handle the outside audits. Got it.”
    “Okay then, Ms. Keith. Now get out of here, I need a minute to…adjust.”
    “Oh my…or two.”

 
CEO POV
     
    You know when you first meet someone and you know you’re in trouble but you just can’t fucking help yourself?
    That was me when I first met her. Alexia Elizabeth Keith. God, even her name feels good on my lips. From the moment she walked into my office and looked at me with those big green eyes, and gave me that incredible smile with the most kissable lips ever, that was it. Done. Finis. I was in love. Okay, it was more like lust; the love part came a few months later.
    Hell, I knew she was major trouble. She had it written all over her. And no, I don’t mean literally. Don’t be an idiot. What I mean is that you could feel trouble in the air around her. I knew she would change my life, and for better or worse I was going for it. Everything about us felt right—preordained—fated. I wanted her and I was going to have her.
    When I stood from behind my desk to shake her hand, I swear to God my dick shuddered. Yeah, right you say. But by God, It did. It freakin’ shuddered. You see, when a guy first meets the woman of his dreams he doesn’t swoon or go into cardiac arrest. He