“Oh, God. Yes.” His bite wasn’t gentle. It was just enough to take Ally spiraling over the edge of sensation. “Travis,” she finally moaned, her body trembling as her climax hit her full force.
“Come for me. I want to watch you,” Travis commanded as he straightened, his gaze fixated on her face, his touch and the strokes of his fingers firm and uncompromising.
“Travis,” she screamed, her being splintering apart, her entire body quivering with her explosive release.
“Look at me,” he ordered, intentionally lengthening her orgasm by keeping up his assault on her sensitive clit.
Ally opened her eyes, breathless, her unfocused gaze meeting his fierce stare as her body still rippled with waves of ecstasy. “Travis?” she panted, suddenly feeling very raw and very vulnerable. Her body had never reacted this way before, and it was a little daunting to realize just how much need and passion this man could wring out of her. And he hadn’t even taken off his clothes.
He pulled her up gently, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tightly against his body, as if he knew how she was feeling and he was trying to soothe her. “I was right. Watching you come is the most satisfying thing I’ve ever seen,” Travis said huskily in her ear as he nuzzled the side of her face.
Ally took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She let her hand slide down to the front of his trousers and gently cupped the hard, sizable erection she could feel beneath the fine material. “I want to feel you inside me,” she admitted in a tremulous voice.
“Don’t.” He grabbed her hand and brought it around his neck. “I have no control right now and I don’t have a condom. I don’t exactly carry one around with me just in case I get the chance to fulfill a fantasy with my assistant on my desk.”
“I’m on the Pill. And I’m clean. I checked just to make sure after I broke up with Rick.” Her desperation for Travis was showing, and she hated it, but she couldn’t help wanting to assuage the throbbing need to have him deep inside her.
“I’m clean, too. And if you say one more word to convince me that I have no reason not to fuck you right now, I’ll have you bent over this desk in a heartbeat,” Travis warned her in a feral voice. “And we’ll be here until morning.”
Ally came out of her daze with a flash of reality. “Morning? Oh, God. I have to go to work. I’m late.” She pulled away from Travis reluctantly, instantly missing the shelter of his warm body. Sully’s had completely faded from her brain while she was in the midst of the most incredible climax she’d ever had.
She quickly righted her top, pulling her bra down and jerking down the tank top. Grabbing her jeans, she pulled them on, scowling at her torn panties on the floor. She bent to pick them up, but Travis beat her to it, scooping up the tattered material and shoving it into the pocket of his suit jacket. “You don’t have to go,” he said flatly.
“I do. It’s my job,” she argued, retrieving her hair clip from the floor.
“You don’t. You don’t work there anymore,” Travis told her in a graveled voice.
Ally gaped at Travis, wondering if he’d had a few drinks before coming back to the office, but she hadn’t smelled alcohol. “I don’t understand.”
“You’ve been terminated,” he explained patiently, his face once again calm, his eyes icy.
Understanding dawned slowly. “You got me fired?” Ally asked, confused.
Travis leaned one hip against the desk and crossed his arms. “I wouldn’t say that exactly. You were technically laid off. I had a little discussion with Mr. Sullivan before I came back to the office.”
Ally felt anger rise inside her, a rage so explosive that her body started to shake. “How did you get him to agree? Did you threaten him?”
“Didn’t need to do that. Money always works,” Travis answered coolly.
“How can you do that to me? You knew I needed that job.” Ally hated herself for ever confiding in Travis. He’d used whatever she’d told him against her. “What did I ever do to you to make you do something like this? That’s my livelihood, my survival.”
“This job is your survival,” Travis contradicted. “And it’s demanding enough. I want you freed up in case I need you.”
The cold look on his face, and his casual dismissal of what he had done, set her off, and at that moment, Ally completely lost it.
“You haven’t needed me in four goddamn years. Why this sudden requirement?” She glared at him. “You can’t just play with people’s lives, Mr. Harrison. I’m not a toy. I’m a living, breathing person who needs that income right now.” She stepped up to him and poked a finger in his chest, her face flushed with fury.