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“Point taken.” I held out my hand. “Truce?”

William looked at my hand and shook his head. “No handshake. We’ll seal this deal in a much more enjoyable way.”

With that, he grabbed me and tossed me over his shoulder. After climbing two flights of stairs with me dangling over him, smacking his ass, William was slightly out of breath. Once my feet were back on the ground, I felt brave enough to resume my teasing.

“Maybe you should sit down for a bit. Take a break,” I suggested, only half-joking.

“You think I can’t handle this?” William asked defensively.

“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “If you think you’re up for it, prove it to me.”

William’s eyes sparkled and he smirked. “Challenge accepted, Olivia Harris.”





CHAPTER FOUR

William’s family left the following morning and we had a few blissful hours until we had to leave for the airport to catch our flight. It was a Monday, and I should’ve been at work, but William assured me that Gravity could survive without me for one more day.

I indulged in a long shower after William disappeared into his home office. He had an important conference call that was going to take most of the morning so I tried to occupy myself as non-erotically as possible. After my shower, I pulled on a thin robe and scanned the room for something to keep me distracted.

I dried my hair. I put on some makeup. I packed and repacked my suitcase. I even tried to read a book. But nothing worked. Knowing that William was so close made it impossible for me to focus on anything else.

I tiptoed down the hall and pressed my ear to his office door, just to see if maybe his call had ended. When I touched the door, it pushed open and I spotted William pacing in front of a large wooden desk. Another man’s voice bellowed from the speakerphone.

“This is your problem now, Connor. I wrote you a check to make this your problem instead of mine.”

William leaned on the desk. I could tell that his shoulders were tensed. “I can assure you that I take Gravity’s responsibility over this issue very seriously, but this has not stopped being your problem.”

“Connor, don’t fuck with me. My company is in the shitter, my kids hate me and my wife is a bitch that hasn’t touched my dick in three years. If you can’t make this problem go away, then you need to tell me now so I can find someone that can fix this.”

Whoever was yelling at William continued to spew a tirade of curse words and insults. William backed away from the desk, turning as if he knew I was there. He smiled and put a finger over his lips, gesturing for me to come in.

I opened the door as quietly as possible and William pushed the mute button on the phone. “Dennis Jeffries is being investigated by the government for embezzling funds from his clients,” he explained.

Dennis Jeffries was the owner of one of the largest investment first in Chicago. “Did he do it?” I asked, not that it mattered. We actually preferred it when our clients were guilty. The innocent ones didn’t need a lot of crisis management.

“Of course he did.” William unmuted the phone. “Dennis, I’ll be back in town later tonight. I think you should come by the office in the morning so we can discuss this in person.”

“Are you trying to get rid of me, son? I’m a powerful man and if I want to talk all day, you better listen.” William hit mute again.

“Only the guilty ones make a power play like this,” he explained, his jaw tight and his eyes stormy.

I noticed for the first time that he was dressed in his normal attire- gray suit pants and a pinstripe dress shirt. This was the William Connor that people didn’t dare mess with. Dennis Jeffries was about to learn that lesson.

I was still wearing the robe and William reached over and pulled the belt loose. I let it fall open and slipped it off my shoulders until it lay in a pile at my feet. Very slowly, I took a seat on his desk, spreading my legs. William’s breathing picked up and he stepped between my legs. His hand slid up my leg and across my thigh at rapid speed until his finger was inside me and his thumb was pressing on my clitoris.

I moved against his hand and let out a moan, glad that the phone was still on mute. Dennis hadn’t stopped talking. William added a second finger to his exploration, and unmuted the phone.

“Dennis, I understand the urgency of the matter, I assure you. But we can talk about this in the morning when I’m back in town.”

William thrust his fingers in and out rapidly, rubbing on exactly the right spot. I bit my lip to keep from crying out as Dennis yammered on. I was dying to let go but I had to hold back. I decided that William needed to be suffering as much as me so I reached over and undid his belt as quietly as possible. After I undid the button on his pants, I lowered the zipper quickly and thrust my hand inside.