The Holiday Treatment by Elle Spencer

Author:Elle Spencer [Spencer, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635556612
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2020-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

With every lap around the rooftop track at work, Holly became more lost in memories of Hawaii. It had been a few weeks, but she could still see Meredith’s dark eyes roaming her naked body. Feel her fingers caressing her breast. She could hear that sexy voice telling her what she needed. More. She needed more of Holly. Deeper. Go deeper, Holly.

“I heard you come up here when you need to work something out.”

Holly stopped jogging and turned. Meredith stood there, hands in her pockets, her short hair swirling around her face in the light breeze. In the three weeks since Meredith had moved into her new office, Holly had avoided going anywhere near it. Why torture herself with glimpses of that beautiful face? All she wanted to do was keep her head down, not cause any trouble, and heal her broken heart. The problem was, their new boss was never very far from her thoughts. Longest three weeks of her life.

Holly wiped her brow with the back of her hand and said, “Work something out or just work out?”

“Maybe I misunderstood Lucille,” Meredith said.

Holly would have to let Lucille know that she needed to be a bit more discreet and not announce to the whole freaking world that Holly Hudson was not feeling like herself today. “What’s up?”

“I’d hoped we could still work together,” Meredith said. “But it seems like you’re avoiding me.”

“Just staying in my lane. Wouldn’t want to rock the sexual harassment cart.” Holly grabbed her water bottle off the bench and took a sip. Meredith got closer. Too close for Holly’s liking. She took a step back. “What do you need, Meredith? Is it something for work, because otherwise, I don’t think we have anything to talk about.”

Meredith took another step toward her. “You have to understand that I was promoted under difficult circumstances. All eyes will be on me. It wouldn’t look good for me to be involved with one of my subordinates.”

“Yeah, I understood that the first time you said it. What happened between us just happened. Wrong place, wrong time. End of story.”

“It doesn’t have to be the end of our story,” Meredith said. “We can still work together. We can still work on that dream of yours.” Holly tried to walk away, but Meredith stood in her way. “I don’t want you to think this is easy for me. Hawaii was special for me too.”

“I never said it was special. It was sex.” Holly expected her to let go and back away, but she didn’t move.

“Say that while you’re looking me in the eye.”

It reminded Holly of the little mind games Gwen played with Ty. It stroked her ego to know that he fantasized about her, so she’d give him little bread-crumb-sized offerings to keep him interested. Close but not too close. Flirty but not too flirty.

In fact, when Holly really thought about it, Gwen wanted the same thing from her. She wanted to be desired by everyone who couldn’t actually have her.

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