Bewitching Desire by Elizabeth Davis

Author:Elizabeth Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Davis

When Linnea imagined being a lawyer in law school she had envisioned late nights full of high powered banter, sharp suits, and adrenaline-fueled legalistic drama. Instead it was mostly junior level associates in increasingly sloppy clothes with haggard looks, kept awake by entirely too much caffeine. It also meant handling things for clients that were in no way, shape, or form an actual emergency but the client had decided it was and so here she was, staying until obscenely late hours again.

Jack was the last one in the office with her and she was grateful for his company. Linnea moved to the couch in his office with her laptop so they could keep each other awake and mock at each other’s playlists. But unlike with Benjamin, his teasing didn’t raise her blood pressure.

It was 11:30 when they finally finished. Linnea jumped up and clapped just as Jack’s Spotify playlist— R&B Hits of the 90s— clicked over to her favorite Boyz II Men song. “They totally played this at my prom,” she said, elated work was done for the night.

“Let me guess—you were prom queen?” Jack asked.

Linnea laughed. “Nope, but I was on Homecoming Court.”

“Well, I was Prom King, so guess I have you beat there,” he teased.

She smiled and tipped her head to the side. It was cheesy as hell, a pop song pretty much designed to make fifteen year old girls swoon and demand their boyfriends claim it as ‘their’ song, but she always cranked it up when it came on the radio when she was alone in her car. “Well, Prom King, it’s my favorite.”

“Then let’s dance,” Jack offered, and held out his hand.

She shouldn’t. She really, really shouldn’t, because she knew what that implied and she wasn’t ready for that yet.

“If you insist,” she said instead of no, we should probably be heading home and let him pull her to him. Not too close—he seemed too cognizant of what that meant—but close enough for his hand to rest on her lower back. She laughed, trying vainly to keep up the charade that they were just friends goofing around, but the song continued and the space between them collapsed, like planets drawn together by gravity. Pretty soon her cheek was next to his and there was barely a hairsbreadth of air between them.

“Why do I get the feeling this is a bad idea?” Jack asked, his breath stirring the hair by her ear.

“Because it probably is,” she answered. Her heart was pounding and she couldn’t stop breathing him in, so it was time to take drastic action. She wrenched herself away and wrapped her cardigan around herself like armor. “I should go,” she said tightly.

“Linnea—“

“I should go,” she repeated, and walked out without a second look.

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