The Boss Vol. 2 (The Boss #2) by Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott

Author:Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott [Quinn, Cari & Elliott, Taryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01720XWR8
Publisher: Rainbow Rage Publishing
Published: 2015-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

She kept me waiting.

It didn’t surprise me. What did, however, was her response when I finally left my office and stopped by her desk, my umbrella tucked under my arm.

“Dammit, I’m not going home with you.”

My eyebrow raised. I wasn’t offended, merely curious. “That might wound me, had I any intention of inviting you to my house.” It wasn’t technically a home. I slept there sometimes, and the closet held my clothes, but it wasn’t a home in the truest sense of the word.

Despite being an architect, I had no idea what that word actually meant.

“Oh, of course not. You can fuck me here, but you wouldn’t actually deign to allow me into your rarefied air.” She jerked to her feet, her boat-sized purse in one hand and her keys in the other. No umbrella, I noticed. No rain slicker. Nothing to shield all that leather and all that…hose from the elements.

I wasn’t thinking about her garters or her purple lace panties. I definitely wasn’t thinking about the nail-me-heels that had left an impression in my ass.

“Where’s your vehicle? You had one the night we—” I cleared my throat. “Where’s your vehicle?” I repeated.

“In the shop.”

Maybe that was why she hadn’t wanted to buy lunch. If she was more strapped than usual, she’d probably need to cut back. Hopefully the stipend would help.

I remembered all too well what it was like to not have more than a few pennies to my name. I didn’t want her to experience what I had. She was the granddaughter of a local scion. She shouldn’t have to struggle for even a moment.

“Is the problem serious?”

Ignoring me, she tugged out her phone, glanced at it, then shoved it back in her bag. “Look, really, this isn’t necessary. It’s a quick walk to the train and—”

“It’s pouring out.” I inclined my chin toward the wall of windows and the rain slicking down them. “You’ll be drenched in an instant.”

“Not the first time in my life I’ve been wet.” She shot me a look under her lashes, then sighed and hoisted her bag on her shoulder. “Okay. Just a ride to the train.”

I intended to drive her all the way home, but that inevitable fight could wait a few more minutes. Why have all my fun at once?

We walked down to the parking garage in silence. The building was nearly tomb-quiet, but I knew the cameras were still going. Whatever Violet thought about us walking out together, the fact remained was that we certainly didn’t appear to have engaged in intimate contact recently. Grace stayed as far away from me as she possibly could, walking stiffly in those seductive shoes that made her ass sway. I wished I could walk behind her to get the entire effect, but other than opening doors for her, that probably would’ve been a bit obvious.

I led her to my Land Rover and she got inside, buckling up in silence. I’d begun to think she wouldn’t speak at all until we were miles from the home address she’d listed in Marblehead on her employment form.

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