The Temp

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Something about his expression changed to amusement, crinkling at the corners. He was laughing at her. “Melinda extended her trip after she caught a bug; the doctor said she wasn’t fit to travel back yet.” Roman’s words rang out like cold reality.
    Eve clasped her hands together. Her cheeks flared up, giving it all away. She felt ridiculous; mortified she’d behaved in such a way when she’d made that little unforgettable statement on her first day. Stupid sexual harassment meeting.
    She got up wishing she could make a quick getaway.
    “Oh right,” she straightened her skirt, eyes downward. “Fine, another week.” On auto she walked towards the door. Her hand found the handle somehow in her trance, her feet found their step and suddenly…suddenly his hand rested on hers.
    His hand-
    “Eve,” the way he said her name was like torture. Why couldn’t she resist him?
    “Yes Sir,” Eve whispered barely able to say it out loud.
    “Eve,” his fingers squeezed hers, her breathing hitched. “Was there another way you had envisioned this playing out?” his voice held a lilt to it, so different from the workaholic voice he often used. This one was careening like a Cheshire cat edging up along side her rubbing his scent all over her.
    “No, Sir,” she stammered.
    “Why don’t you call me by my first name?”
    What? Her breathing hitched. Was this really happening?
    “Roman,” she whispered his name exactly how she’d imagined it in her dreams. He’d take her and she’d whisper his name, and scream it later in the throng of heat, their heat. As if-
    “I like it when you say my name.” Eve turned in her step and came face to face with him, so close. Until now he’d kept to his word in not doing anything inappropriate. Funny what she considered inappropriate. There was something so daring, so dominant in his actions. 
    She backed up to the door. Her cheeks were flaming red. Had she instigated this? She’d wanted it a moment ago, though it was like he was toying with her emotions, playing with her, as if he could ever feel like she did. How did she feel? She didn’t know exactly…she simply wanted him, craved him. She always wanted what she couldn’t have, didn’t fully understand.
    This was her doing. She’d folded her legs and fluttered her eyelashes and this was the fantasy she’d wanted. Sexual harassment meetings be damned as usual.
    Yet, only if he wasn’t her boss anymore. He. Couldn’t. Be. Her. Boss. It was unprofessional and worst of all dangerous to her blackmailers. They’d put an end to it, for sure or worse…would they dare?
    “Roman,” her gaze reached up to his face, braving it, him, his lips, sculpted, parted. She cleared her voice finding traction once more in her thoughts. “Was there anything else Mr Pierce, one more week?” Eve said and tried to instil some of her original professionalism she’d employed these last few weeks.
    “What if I haven’t said one more week, what then? Would we be having a different conversation?” it took her a moment to realise he really was referring to this. Whatever this was between them.
    He spun on his foot and walked back to his desk. He was walking away. Eve’s heart slammed in her chest, he was dismissing her. He had to be.
    This was it. This was the end of it.
    He picked up a remote and pressed a button.
    Everything went dark.

 
     
    13
     
     
     
    “Sir?”
    “I told you to call me by my first name.”
    “Roman?” her heart fluttered like a hummingbird. Her eyes travelled along the glass. At the touch of a button, they’d tinted to black, completely opaque. She’d been here two weeks and she had never known they could do that. Suddenly this glass box was no longer see-through, their privacy guaranteed.
    Privacy, a blacked out glass box confined with a demi-god.
    The static electricity charged to full throttle, fully enclosed, unyielding throttle.
    “Oh god,” Eve stumbled forward and gripped the edge of the desk. Her

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