Free Executive Perks by Angela Claire Page A

the same game plan as her, Aaron also maneuvered his date so that before she knew it they were next to Pat and Virginia. “Can we switch partners?” Aaron asked Pat, ignoring his own partner’s furious expression.
    Pat started to object, when Virginia simply walked from his arms into Winston’s.
    He’d taken the words right out of her mouth.
    Virginia felt a naked stab of satisfaction at the sight of his girlfriend or whatever she was standing there speechless as she and Winston whirled away. “You’re not very nice to your girlfriend,” she chided him, suddenly feeling alarmingly loose from the wine and the intoxicating experience of being in his arms again, even in just this most innocent of circumstances. Aaron pulled her full against his body as they danced and she felt his cock against her, immediately lengthening and growing hard. Uh, oh. Maybe not so innocent.
    “I’d be different with you,” he promised in a whisper in her ear. She felt a shiver right down to her toes.
    “We’ll never know, will we?” she countered gaily.
    “That’s up to you.”
    “So what’s next, Mr. Winston? May I call you Mr. Winston?”
    She laughed at her own pun.
    “What’s the alternative?”
    “I guess I could call you by your first name. Aaron. Oh no, wait, I don’t want to send any mixed signals. Do you read use of your first name by a woman as an invitation to bed?”
     
    She leaned defenselessly against him, but clearly still had her weapons.
    He smiled at the barb. “Not if they preface it with an explanation.”
    “Okay, fine. I’m sick of calling you Mr. Winston. So Aaron it is. But I don’t mean that as a pass at you.”
    “Thanks for clarifying that.”
    She seemed very different tonight, Aaron thought. Light and flirtatious. She was devastatingly attractive in this mood, but a small part of him was wary, wondering if this was just a new move in some game she seemed to be playing with him. He had meant to try to charm her tonight, just to see if he could change her mind about them. But he hadn’t expected her to initiate anything.
    If Virginia sensed his hesitancy, she gave no sign.
    “So tell me the truth. What’s behind all this interest in my company? Can’t you find somebody else as good to gobble up?”
    “You make me sound like the big bad wolf.”
    “That’s what we call you, me and Brendan.”
    “I’ve been called worse.”
    “I know. I’ve read all about you.”
    “A fan?”
    “A target.”
    They danced together smoothly.
    “Any chance we could leave the business world behind, just for tonight?”
    “I will if you will.”
    He tugged her closer just as the song ended. “I definitely will.”
    Aaron smiled, absolutely floored by this new apparent guilelessness in her. Was she drunk? She still leaned complacently against him, his hands lightly on the silk of her dress, her head almost on his shoulder. She giggled, tossing back her mane of hair which was curled for the occasion.
    Virginia Beckett giggling? He should be skeptical, but he was too busy being charmed. God, he was easy. His cock had hardened as soon as he had her in his arms, despite how Julie’s blatant arching against him had left him cold.
    She was adorable. So what was the catch?
    Virginia looked back in the direction of where they had left Julie and her brother-in-law. “I think your girlfriend has disappeared.” In fact, the brother-in-law was back at the Beckett table, his wife whispering furiously to him and looking in the direction of Aaron and Virginia, and Julie was nowhere in sight.
    Aaron shrugged. “I hope she’s left,” he said honestly and earned another tittering laugh from this new Virginia Beckett.
    Julie might have looked very inviting in her skintight red dress, but she was beginning to be a little inconvenient. Anyway, it was Virginia’s body in her tasteful and virginal white gown that Aaron found himself thinking about now.
    “You really are bad.”
    The light strains of a familiar tune