Rule Number One: Cheat—he might like it by Eloise Harper

Author:Eloise Harper [Harper, Eloise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter ten

Sophie needs to be punished. Don’t you think?

In the cold and unforgiving light of the next day, Thomas is still wondering what the hell has happened to him. To Sophie. To their life. A life that seemingly started perfectly normally this morning. Rising from bed. Shower. Breakfast. The usual trip to work and then a few hours spent fighting fires. Not literally. Although he wonders if that might have helped him if he had chosen that kind of a role instead of working in an office.

Would Sophie have been more in awe of him? The way she clearly must be in awe of her new lover to have let him have sex with her in the carpark at work?

He ought not to think about that. Not here. Not in the office. Not when one particular set of eyes is already looking his way after he’s been so quiet this morning.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” Janice asks for the thirteenth time since this morning’s tea break. “Only you look a little pale. Why don’t you take five minutes? Go and get some air?”

He nods. He could do that. He would do that. If she’d just look away. Give him a second to compose himself. Because it’s the most awkward of moments, otherwise. His current physical condition not being conducive to rising from his chair just now. Not in polite company. Not when Janice, the middle-aged spinster who has a tendency to mother and flirt with him, is staring at him and won’t look away.

Especially not after what happened between them yesterday.

“I’m fine,” he says, nodding. Nodding while looking back at his computer and trying to read the words that blur in front of him.

Only he isn’t fine. Not according to the sweat that beads on his forehead and not according to the way Janice jumps up from her chair and rushes over to him.

At least it’s just the two of them in here. He does have to thank the heavens for that small mercy. Because he doesn’t manage to keep his physical condition private from her. Not when she moves in so close that she’d have to be blind not to notice that he’s hard.

“I’m sorry,” he says, shaking his head and actually damn near hanging it in his hands. “I can explain.” Except that he can’t.

But she nods anyway. She nods, and she waits. And is it his imagination, or does she keep looking at him? Down there. Her eyes sliding over the protruding ridge in his trousers while she licks her lips. Licks her lips and looks at him like he’s her midday snack?

“If there’s anything I can do to help,” she says, eyelashes fluttering as she makes eye contact. “And I mean anything. Anything at all. If you wanted to talk or even not talk. You know I’m here for you, right? You understand that I’m a woman on my own with no commitments and… well, I know you’re married and you have a beautiful wife who I can’t possibly compete with, but I’ve learnt to compensate for my lack of beauty.

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