My Forbidden Boss: A Brother's Best Friend Billionaire Romance (Forbidden Fairy Tales Book 3) by R. S. Elliot

Author:R. S. Elliot [Elliot, R. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Adam

I couldn’t avoid Stella forever.

And it wasn’t as though I wanted to—I felt like I had to.

These past few weeks had been hellish. With all of my heart, I wanted to be with her. To even just be near her.

That kiss—God, that kiss. I felt like it was going to kill me. I couldn’t get it out of my head, the way she had felt in my arms, her soft, slight body pressed up against me. Her gentle hands on my neck and in my hair. I couldn’t breathe every time I thought about it. I could hardly function. Could hardly do anything at all. It had been more than everything I had ever wanted, and in that moment, I had it.

But it was just a moment.

It had fallen apart in my hands, and the subsequent guilt that washed over me was too immense to bear. I couldn’t go back. I couldn’t take it back. And the worst part was, I didn’t want to.

So, I had been trying to avoid her. I felt awful for doing it, for every reason that one could imagine—among the top of the list being that it meant I wasn’t seeing my daughter, either.

It wasn’t as though I wasn’t getting work done at Artual; in fact, I was working harder than I had been able to in years, accomplishing more than I had thought I might ever be able to again. And there was passion there now too, yes, but it paled in comparison to what I felt with Stella in my arms. Pressed up against my body. Kissing me. She had the softest, warmest kiss. It felt like sunlight injected straight into my veins, lit up against my mouth, a trace of a burn as she ran her fingers down my chest and abdomen.

I never would have stopped if we hadn’t had to. I couldn’t have made myself.

And tonight, I had to pry myself away from her at the dinner table before I did something I would regret. I had been avoiding Stella, because I couldn’t handle what I felt. But she had been avoiding me too. She must have regretted the kiss—she must have thought of it as a drunken mistake. I didn’t want her to feel uncomfortable around me, or like any of this was putting her job in jeopardy. This was my fault, and mine alone. I was the one who had put us in that drunken situation to begin with.

Now, stone cold sober, I wanted her with all that I had, but I had vowed to myself to keep it strictly professional between us. The weight of guilt on my chest was enough to crush me.

Still, as I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, all I could think about was Stella. I would have done anything to have her in the room with me. I fought with all I had not to go to her.

The soft knock on my door sent my heartrate into overdrive.

My first thought was

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