I plopped down on the wooden bench seat, closed my eyes, and let the steam fill my lungs and open my pores, relaxing me and offering some quiet before I would begin my day. I’d discovered the pleasure of an early morning sauna session a few weeks back and now I looked forward to it before a rigorous day on navigating the Florida legal system. I found that if I got to the gym early, I could use the equipment without much i...

Chapter 20 I’m just getting out of my car across the street from my office building when I feel my phone buzz. Before pulling it out to see who texted, I pull my coat closer to my face as I quickly run across the busy downtown street and into my building. I know it’s petty, but the fact that VPs have to park across the street, instead of in the actual building’s parking lot, annoys me every morning that it’s not sunny. Lo...

Chapter 18 “I’ll have a glass of champagne. We’re waiting for two more people to get here, but they should be here any moment. So please also bring out a glass of the pinot noir and an old fashioned,” I say to the server who came by to take our drink orders. “How do you know what they order?” Jackie asks me once the server has left our table. Jackie and I came separately to the hotel bar from the office, but we’re both on...

Chapter 16 My office feels unusually quiet as I continue to stare at my computer screen, not really reading anything. It’s the same thing I’ve been doing all morning. In the past, I’ve always been able to work through any personal turmoil I'm going through. But with this situation, I can’t seem to parse out the personal from the work because it’s all intertwined. It doesn’t help that I got so little sleep last night. By t...

It takes me a moment to open my eyes and orient myself to where I am. But as the scent of Lauren’s perfume hits my nose, I remember everything. The blindfold, the sex, the pizza, the sex, and then I think there was just more sex. I know I must not have been asleep that long given how hard it is to even open my eyes. But as I reach over to feel Lauren’s warm body, she’s not there. I move my hand over her spot and feel that...

Chapter 14 It’s dark by the time I get to Lauren’s apartment and it’s hard to see much detail other than that the building seems fairly new or it was at least recently renovated. It’s not the luxury high rise I expected her to live in and the building’s lobby is actually kind of quaint. It has a historical hotel feel to it, even though everything is clearly new. As I’m waiting for the elevator to take me to Lauren’s apart...

Time seems to stand still for a minute as we all just stand there awkwardly. My heartbeat is so fast, I can feel it ramming itself against my chest. I know I should be the first to speak but I feel paralyzed between Jackie’s glare and the woman standing behind me. The sight of Jackie’s face moving from angry to crushed causes a wave of guilt to crash into me all at once. This is not how I wanted her to find out and I know...

Chapter 12 I’m just putting on a comfortable pair of shorts and a tank top when I hear the knock on my front door. I didn’t change my panties, knowing Lauren would probably steal those for whatever collection of mine she has. I take a deep breath before pulling open the door. I’m tired from the emotional conversation with Jackie, which went way worse than I thought it would, but I can’t help how excited I am to see Lauren...

Chapter 11 Lauren: Where are you? Me: So needy. I laugh at my own text. Which isn’t even funny, but I’m already feeling a little tipsy from the glass of champagne I downed when I first got to the bar. I’m here before anyone else from our team since I needed a moment alone before I have to socialize. In general, I believe champagne should be sipped, but I’m full of nerves right now and I need something to calm them. Lauren...

“You can’t be serious.” “Oh, but I am, Ems,” Lauren says as she looks at her reflection in the car mirror and fixes some hair that has fallen out of her band. “I’m very serious.” She looks over at me with a playful smile, which starts to turn more serious as her eyes rake down my body, settling on my still-bare tits. “I think maybe you’ll need a shirt on to go back into the office,” she says as she leans into the backseat...

Chapter 9 The car ride to Lauren’s hotel is quiet, but it’s not uncomfortable. After everything that she told me at dinner, I need a moment to process it, anyway. And process my decision to go back to her hotel room with her. I suppose from the moment I said, “Italian,” the other night, that I probably knew where this would lead. I’ve tried to hold onto my anger for her not telling me about Olivia, but I don’t know if I c...

Chapter 7 “So not only is she ridiculously pretty and rich, she’s also Captain Planet,” I say as I sink down into my office chair. “If Captain Planet was in the business of servers and data centers,” Jackie says back dryly as she takes the seat across from me. “I guess I was hoping the product might be some evil artificial intelligence that was going to steal our jobs and souls.” I turn my desktop computer back on so I ca...

Chapter 6 It’s a fucking video call. I should have known when I saw the meeting room change from Guy’s private office to one of our video conference rooms. We generally use those for calls with our other offices or when clients are remote. And sure enough, as I enter the conference room, one of Guy’s admins is setting-up the video technology, which can only mean one thing since the rest of us will be here in person. Laure...

Chapter 5 I’m so disoriented that it’s not until I’m in the parking garage of Altitude’s building when I remember that I didn’t drive today, and I don’t have any of my stuff from upstairs. I probably should have taken a breath and thought things through, but I just had to get out of the office. Not even Jackie’s confused questions stopped me or the handful of texts she’s sent since running out. I can feel my pocket buzzin...

The room is dark as I move closer to the bed, the only lights on by now are the soft backlights illuminating off the headboard. Lauren looks even sexier in person than she did in the photo as she pushes two fingers deeper into her folds and lets out a soft moan. She’s looking at me with darkened eyes as she pushes them in and out. As much as I want to move on to the bed, I wait at the end for her to move down it so I can...