subway, my head swimming.
****
When I get back to the apartment I find Kelly lounging on the sofa in the living room. I’m kind of disappointed that she isn’t at work, I could use some time alone and I know she’s going to want to grill me on the evening with Kyan.
“Clara! I feel like I’ve been waiting ages for you to get back!” says Kelly as I shut the door.
I walk over to the sofa and slump down next to her.
“So, how was it?” she asks.
I decide to tell her everything but I leave the best bit until the end. The bit I know will make her go crazy.
“…and so I opened the door and there he was, completely naked and trying to cover himself with his hands.”
“OH. MY. GOD. So did he have an amazing body? Did you manage to get a good look at what he’s packing down there?”
“Remember that guy you used to date at college, the football player?” I say.
“Shaun?”
“Yeah, that’s the one. The guy that was always taking his top off at every opportunity to show off how ripped he was.”
“Yeah, he was hot. Shame he was such a douche really.”
“Well, Kyan made him look like a flabby weakling,” I say.
“Damn. You should have taken a picture on your phone or something because I’m really feeling like I missed out on something great,” says Kelly dreamily, “So how are you supposed to be professional with him now? You are definitely going to sleep together.”
I playfully hit Kelly with a cushion for her suggestion.
“There’s no way anything is going to happen between us. He’s my boss! It was just a stupid accident, I’ve seen him naked, it’s not a big deal. We hardly even mentioned it afterward.”
You sure did think about it a lot, Clara .
“Let’s examine the evidence. So we both know he’s hot, rich, and ridiculously cool. You kissed him when you were drunk and now you’ve seen him naked. He made a deal just to get you to come work for him and last night he took you out for dinner. I think it’s pretty conclusive,” says Kelly before she hits me back with another cushion.
“Didn’t you listen to me? He wanted me to come work with him because I impressed him in that meeting.”
“Sure he did. That and he thinks you’re hot.”
“You think I couldn’t possibly have got this job because I impressed him with my abilities?”
“I’m sure they helped a bit.”
After a few more minutes of chatting, I realize how tired I am.
“I’m exhausted. I’m going to bed,” I say.
“Yeah you need your beauty sleep as you’ll be seeing your lover Kyan at 9am tomorrow.”
“Goodnight, Kelly,” I say as I turn and walk to my room.
It feels good to shut out the rest of the world behind me.
A few minutes later I crawl into bed and turn out the light. I was exhausted before but a kind of restlessness has come over me. I can hear my heart pounding in my chest.
I think about Kyan. A few days ago I hated him but now it feels like there’s more to him than meets the eye. Maybe it’s just because I saw him naked. It’s been a while since I saw a guy naked.
I let my mind float back to what I saw when I burst into his office earlier, except this time my imagined version of him isn’t even trying to cover himself. His cock is out in the open, huge and rock-hard in his hand.
“Like what you see?” he says in his deep drawl.
I can’t deny Kyan is hot so I probably just need to get it out of my system. A little bit of fantasy never hurt anyone right?
I breathe out sharply as my hand moves down my body to the aching desire that is growing between my legs. I’m not surprised when I find wetness there.
In my fantasy, Kyan is walking towards me hungrily. I’m frozen to the spot, ready to let him do anything he wants to me. He stops, a few inches in front of me, not touching me but close enough that I can feel the heat of his body and sense the size of him there. The warm scent of his body and his cologne hangs in the air between us
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