Hidden Desires by Carolyn Faulkner

Author:Carolyn Faulkner [Faulkner, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2018-05-24T05:00:00+00:00

AS UNUSUAL AS our relationship was, it settled into a very nice routine. We went out a couple of times during the week—as long as his work didn't interfere, which it did, sometimes. I totally understood, although he always insisted on making up the dates, even if it meant doing something other than what we usually did on a Saturday afternoon, and I found his insistence quite gentlemanly. He might have been very strict and stern with me, but he also never hesitated to show—in other overt and subtle ways—that he cared. Although he never brought up the subject of his little confession about being in love with me again, for which I was incredibly grateful.

He'd been quiet this week, though, completely out of touch, which was unusual. I wondered if perhaps he had to travel for work and was incommunicado. I'd sent him an email on Tuesday that had gone unanswered and a text on Thursday that was the same. I had always done my best not to be considered high maintenance, but I didn't think it was too much to ask for some form of communication between us during the week.

So, I left him a call that Friday morning before I went to work that I wished I hadn't, that I thought sounded pathetic and lame and needy and everything I so did not want him to think of me as.

He weighed on my mind as I walked across the parking lot, and even that late in the week, when I reached my office, I could still feel my body sizzling in the aftermath—in several ways, one of which still had me sitting in my chair rather gingerly.

Seconds later, Carla literally ran into my office and shut the door, leaning back against it and panting. Carla—like me—wasn't one to run, so I knew that, whatever it was, it was something big.

She came to lean her hands on my desk, getting her face very close to mine. "You can't breathe a word of this to anyone."

I raised three fingers. "Scout's honor."

She glared at me dubiously. "That's the Boy Scouts' salute."

I frowned. "I think they're the same—"

"Doesn't matter. Remember that rumor that we were being taken over by DMQ?"

It was one of the largest software firms in the country, and we had just about grown big enough to be of interest to it and others. But DMQ's offer was rumored to be the best and the most likely candidate for a buyout, which had everyone on edge, worried they were going to lose their jobs at some point in the near future.

"Yeah?"

"Well, there's going to be an announcement this afternoon at three, and it's going to be them—DMQ."

"Well, then, it's been nice working here, I guess," I sighed.

Carla frowned. "Don't say that—you could be kept on."

I snorted. "In what capacity? Janitor? Mail room? They already have a Human Resources Director. I looked it up online. He graduated from Harvard. My degree is from a college in a strip mall. I might as well grab a box and start packing.

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