Falling for My Boss: An Age Gap, Surprise Pregnancy Romance by Natasha L. Black

Author:Natasha L. Black [Black, Natasha L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

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I’d broken my rules about getting involved with people I worked with. And I had broken them big-time. I hadn’t just gotten too cozy with a coworker at work or started getting used to having dinner together at the same restaurant every week. Those were the kinds of things I told myself I wasn’t allowed to do. It would get me too comfortable with a location and distract me so I wasn’t as aware of my surroundings. It would make me vulnerable. So, I avoided them.

That would have been a bit of a hiccup. But no. I’d gone for the big time. I slept with my boss. At work.

Apparently when I did things, I did them big.

I would have thought something like that would have thrown everything off, and the next morning would have been a cloud of awkwardness and discomfort. It might have even included attempting to sneak out of the house to get the vineyard with as little contact with Derek as possible.

It turned out not to be necessary. In fact, the next day started out perfectly normal. It was like nothing had changed when the alarm on my phone opened my eyes. Except, of course, that I’d gotten a really good night’s sleep for the first time in as long as I could remember.

In those first few moments after waking up, I let my mind drift back to what happened the night before, waiting for the bad feelings to come. They didn’t. Even as I got up and headed for the shower so I could start getting ready for the day, I only had a little bit of guilt about having sex with Derek.

It had been fun and a fantastic stress relief. When it was all done, there was some awkwardness to be sure. We both seemed to have that moment of realization of what just happened, that it wasn’t just fantasies or daydreams, but we actually had just gone at it with no self-control in the kitchen of his restaurant.

Humor managed to break that, and over the rest of the day, we managed to get comfortable with each other again. Spending time together at the house let us get to know each other more, and it felt like there had been a shift between us. By the time the day was over, we’d gotten past the initial weird phase and headed to bed separately without any awkwardness.

That welcome reaction continued when I got out of the shower and went to the kitchen for a cup of coffee to get the day really underway. Derek was already sitting at the table with his mug of coffee. It seemed his taste for actual physical reading materials didn’t extend past books because he had the morning news pulled up on a tablet sitting on the table in front of him.

He glanced up at me and smiled when I walked in.

“Am I ever going to beat you into the kitchen in the morning?” I asked.

He took a gulp of his coffee and shook his head.

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