Billionaire Bad Boys of Romance 1(141)
God! What am I? Sixteen?
Mr. Collins cupped her face. His hands, slim with elegant tapered fingers, enchanted Natasha. His touch, foreign until now, felt so right.
“I want it all.”
“Why now?”
“I believe I’ve answered that.”
“No, you haven’t.” Natasha placed her hands over his. “Why are you being this way to me now? I’ve worked with you for over a year and you’ve never indicated you thought of me as anything other than your employee.”
“I have. You just haven’t been as observant as I would’ve preferred you to be.” Mr. Collins’s heated gaze swept over her. “I’ve been remarkably patient with you, Natasha.”
She bristled. “Meaning I’ve been less than satisfactory?”
“Meaning why do you think you’re here? I saw you…I wanted you…I took you.”
Natasha couldn’t deny the thrill his words caused. “You saw me? When?”
“One week before you started working for me.” Mr. Collins slid his hands down to loosely encircle her neck. “Our eyes met.”
Natasha remembered the exact moment. As the summoned IT members were filing out of the boardroom, she had looked across the gleaming table and inadvertently met his stare. All the air had escaped her. It took a jostle from Jeremy, a senior programmer, to break contact.
“The servers.”
“Yes, when your department allowed the servers to go down.”
Her chin went up a militant notch. “We didn’t allow the servers to go down. The dedicated servers—”
“Yes, yes. An Act of God. I remember.” Mr. Collins caressed her throat. “You looked like a rabbit. A very delicious, adorable rabbit.”
Natasha’s lower lip pushed out. “You thought of me as a pet?”
“Pet? I must confess that does open up many possibilities. I’m quite sure we’ll explore it later. No. In fact, I like it so much I’ll explore it tonight. Thank you, Miss Reynolds, for your valuable insight.”#p#分页标题#e#
His lazy smile made her squirm. Natasha damned the permanent blush painting her cheeks and neck. “Then what did you think of me?”
“Prey.” Mr. Collins cocked his head in question. “Didn’t you think of yourself in that way?”
Yes.
Her heart thumped faster. She wondered if he could hear it. “Am I still your prey?”
“Absolutely.” He leaned down and kissed her jaw. “I can’t wait to know how good you taste.”
Natasha sighed in bliss. When she dropped her head back Mr. Collins took advantage and bit her neck. She jerked forward with a soft cry. Forbidden pleasure called for Natasha to stop asking questions and to just let herself be taken by her delightfully dangerous boss.
Sometimes I can just be too stubborn for my own good. This is obviously going to be one of those times.
“Do you do this with all your assistants? Find a reason to cut them to pieces just so you can get them naked?” Mr. Collins pushed her down. She banged the back of her head against the desk. Natasha didn’t bother to hide the stab of pain it caused.
“Never.”
His fiery glare surprised her. Natasha didn’t think him capable of showing anything than frosty disdain. “There’s no need for you to be angry,” she pointed out while rubbing the tender spot on her scalp. “It was a perfectly reasonable question to ask.”
“It demeans us both.” He gripped her wrists and held them above her head. “I have never fucked my secretary.”
“Executive assistant.”
Her prim distinction aroused his biting arrogance. “Executive assistant, secretary, office wife—they all mean the same thing. You’re mine.”
“I haven’t agreed to anything yet, Mr. Collins.”
He bared his teeth in a wolfish grin. “I’m not asking, Miss Reynolds.”
“So you’d be willing to force me even if I said no?”
“But it wouldn’t be force, would it?” Mr. Collins’s mouth hovered over Natasha’s. “You’ve already agreed or you wouldn’t be on this fact-finding mission. You want to do it but you don’t want to just be one in a long line of others. You want to be the only one. Isn’t that right?”
Natasha stared into his eyes, caught in their dark, hypnotic pull. “Am I?”
“Yes. I told you already. I am not dating anyone, nor am I engaged or married.”
“So you came to me.”
“I came for you. I grew tired of waiting for you to realize what this has been all about between us. I’m taking you and I want you completely.” His tongue furtively tasted her. Mr. Collins groaned when hers met his shyly. He pulled away, jaw line clenched. Gripping her chin, Mr. Collins bit out, “Now I want you to fully understand what we will be doing here. Are you ready to listen?”