Total pages in book: 21
Estimated words: 20030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 100(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 67(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 20030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 100(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 67(@300wpm)
She was finally past her shock, with the stormy expression on her face promising that things would only get more interesting from here.
"You sound angry," he taunted.
"I think I am."
"How surprising, for someone who had originally struck me as unfailingly optimistic. Can't you think of anything positive about this situation?"
Star smiled sweetly at him, and her tone ever so pious as she did something that not even his fiercest rivals had the courage to do.
"I'm positive I'm going to pay you back for this—"
It had been so long since someone had threatened him, and for it to come from Star of all people—
Wynd found himself doing something he hadn't done in years.
He laughed.
There was just something about this woman...
Something about her that made him do and feel things that were completely out of character. And while a part of him hated that loss of control...
Another part of him hungered for her even more because of it.
The longer he knew her, the more uncontrollable his desire became.
And that was why...
He leaned forward abruptly, taking her by surprise.
"Start reading the contract out loud," he commanded.
Star looked at him as if gauging how far he would go if she were to refuse.
"Now, Star."
It was now his turn to issue a threat, and even though the retribution he promised was only implied—
Star cleared her throat.
It was more than enough to have her back down, followed by the first few words of the contract spilling past her lips in a shaken and slightly breathless tone.
"This p-private financial audit a-aaaah..."
His Star ended up gasping the moment she felt his fingers move under her skirt...before slowly settling over her knee, his touch feather-soft but unmistakably possessive.
"Keep reading," Wynd instructed coolly even as his hand continued its forbidden ascent over the smooth bare flesh of her thigh.
"A-Agreement is e-entered into on t-this daaaaaaay..." Star's voice wavered anew as his fingers inched closer to the juncture between her trembling legs.
"Don't stop," Wynd ordered, his own voice rougher now as he felt the heat of her body beneath his palm.
"B-By and between W-Wynd S-Sullivaaaan..." She whimpered this time, her entire body shuddering as his fingers finally reached her core.
"H-Hereinafter referred to as 'C-Client'..."
Wynd began stroking the swollen folds made slick by her need.
"A-and..." She jerked in her seat, her agonized gaze flying to his the moment he slowly pushed one finger inside her welcoming heat.
"Eyes back on the contract," Wynd growled even as the tight, wet warmth surrounding his finger threatened his own sanity.
Her breasts were rapidly rising and falling under her blouse, but he was nothing if not patient, with Wynd waiting until her gaze finally returned to the contract she held in her trembling hands—
Finally.
He pushed his finger deeper inside her, and his Star cried out, her body jerking in the chair.
"Stay still, Ms. Moreno," he warned quietly, "because I see someone about to walk down the hallway."
Another whimper escaped her as she fought to remain motionless while his finger remained buried inside her. "Mr. S-Sullivan—"
"Continue reading."
"S-Star M-Moreno, h-hereinafter..." She was close to gasping each word out as his finger began to move, slowly and steadily thrusting in and out of her with deliberate precision.
"R-Referred to as 'A-Auditor'..."
Her knuckles had turned white with how hard she was gripping the folder as he increased both the pace and force of his movements, his finger driving deeper with each thrust.
"W-Whereas, C-Client s-seeks aaaaaah..."
Wynd moved his chair closer, the action allowing him to thrust his finger deeper into her, just deep enough to brush against the barrier of her innocence—
"Mr. S-Sullivan!" She looked at him in sweet distress, her eyes glazed with need.
"Come for me. Now."
His Star shattered before him, her body convulsing around his finger as she tried desperately to muffle her cries of pleasure. Her head fell back, the elegant line of her throat left exposed as her entire body trembled with the force of her release.
Watching her fall apart from just his touch filled Wynd with a satisfaction so terrifyingly profound...that his own world started to fall apart as the truth of his feelings became devastatingly clear.
I love her.
He loved how her smiles reached his soul even as it tore down the walls he had built around his heart. He loved her innocent and fearless ways. Loved her enough to know that she was the only one in this world to make him feel that way.
And that was why...
I can't let this continue.
Chapter Eleven
I'M STILL COMING BACK to myself, my body humming with aftershocks and my mind struggling to piece together what just happened, when the sound of pen against paper cuts through the quiet boardroom like a blade.
Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
The mechanical sound is so at odds with the intimacy we just shared that it makes my stomach clench with unease.
I turn my head slowly, my neck still feeling boneless, and see Wynd signing contracts with the same elegant precision he brings to everything else. His wheat-gold hair is perfectly in place, his charcoal suit unwrinkled, his expression coolly professional as if he hadn't just made me fall apart with his fingers.