Break My Fall(29)

“Well…” I scraped my brain, trying to think of something formidable to say. “He had to meet a party of guests, so we only spoke briefly.” Very briefly. Most of our conversation had been carried out with our tongues. I reddened thinking about the way Kyle had touched me. He had kissed me as if his life depended on it.

“He didn’t fire you?” Linda asked in a toned of amazement.

I shook my head, “He said my job was safe for now.” We were walking, but Linda stopped and grabbed my shoulders.

“Oh Hun, how did you do it?”

She had a look of sheer amazement on her face. I shook my head, confused. “I’m not following you. How did I do what?” I wanted this conversation to be over with. All I wanted to do was see Kyle again. I needed to know where his head was at. Was it possible that he liked me, the way I liked him? I thought about his hands on me and couldn’t help, but get my hopes up.

“I think you may have cracked the stone.” I raised my brow at her, but she just smiled happily and walked on. I hurried along to my locker, ready to get out of here.

I was anxious to see Kyle again.





Kyle





I sat in my truck, waiting for her to come out of the hotel. I’d checked her schedule and knew her shift finished at eight. It was a quarter after; she was late.

I flicked through the channels on the radio, but I didn’t hear anything. I was too fucking nervous. Jesus, I hadn’t been nervous about anything since I was a kid. What was Lee Bennett doing to me?

We had to talk and I wasn’t looking forward to it, hell I was dreading it. What the fuck was I supposed to say? ‘Hey Lee thanks for letting me suck you sweet titties, but I’m not interested in more?’ What a crock. Of course, I was interested in more. I was interested in every single detail of her life. That’s why I had spent the last three hours in my office, snooping around in her personal life.

I’d told myself it was for employer purposes, but that was a bullshit lie. I didn’t need a piece of paper from her file in my hands telling me every detail about her, that information was already burnt into my memory.

I wasn’t sure what I was looking for when I checked up on her, but I was relieved to discover she had no criminal record, no record of drug or alcohol abuse. She didn’t smoke and had ticked single on her file info. I’d made a few calls to her highschool in Montgomery and discovered that Lee had perfect school attendance for the first three and half years of highschool, until she dropped out back in April, two months before senior graduation. What confused me was why Lee would drop out with two months to go, when she had a 4.0 GPA. I was so engrossed in my findings that I almost didn’t notice her coming out of the building. Almost.

She looked up at my truck for a moment, before slowly walked towards me. Shoving the paper into the dashboard, I pressed on the button and the window rolled down. She looked straight in the window at me and smiled shyly.

This was going to sting like a bitch. “Get in. We have to talk.”





Lee





My heart flipped inside my chest when I saw Kyle parked outside when I came out of work. I was prepared for my usual walk home.

“Get in. We need to talk,” he said shortly.

The smile I was wearing evaporated. My heart stopped flipping and sank in my stomach. This was bad.

I opened the passenger door and climbed in…Well, attempted to climb in. After the third attempt at trying to hoist myself up, Kyle came around and lifted me in. My body trembled when he touched my hips. I couldn’t tie the complicated seat belt either, so he strapped me in.

“How was your day?” I asked when the silence in the car became unbearable. Kyle shifted in his seat and turned down the volume on the radio. I hadn’t realized it was on. He had rolled his sleeves up to his elbows and I was having a hard time concentrating on anything other than the light dusting of hair on his muscled forearms, his long fingers…

“It was…hard,” he stopped and cleared his throat. “Lee, we need to talk.” I agreed with that. I nodded for him to continue. He sighed, but said nothing. I turned to look at him and gasped when I saw the turmoil in his eyes. He looked like he was at war with himself. After what felt like a year instead of seconds, he spoke.

“What happened between us in my office cannot happen again.” I sank into my seat. He regretted it, he regretted me. He took my silence as a means to continue torturing me.

“I shouldn’t have touched you… I can’t let that happen again Lee. Do you understand why?” I nodded.

No, I didn’t understand, but I didn’t want to hear all of the reasons he didn’t want me.