moment. It was the first moment he had enjoyed all day.
Chapter 13
Lily rolled out of bed with a groan. Her eyes were heavy and filled with sand and it was all Jared’s fault. She did nothing but think of him for hours or was it days? This man that she knew so well, even better than she knew herself and yet suddenly there were countless things she didn’t know. The most shocking of course was the way her body was reacting to his. He set her on fire, gave her a fever that seemed to continuously burn in her veins. Her body had been humming since he kissed her two weeks ago and kicked into an almost painful pitch last night. When she did manage to finally fall asleep, he had invaded her dreams. The dreams had changed every time she had woken up and drifted off again. One dream included a waterfall, one occurred in an open field on a hot summer day and yet another in a hayloft, but the one thing that remained constant was that it always consisted of her and Jared and bone melting lovemaking. It surprise her just how vividly real her dreams were, if you took into consideration that Lily had never yet had sex. She had woken up each time sweating and panting on the verge of satisfaction that never happened. She felt like she was given some sort of drug, unable to think reasonably and unable to cool down. She stood in front of her mirror and barely recognized herself, she was still getting used to the hair-cut but it was more than that, it was an awareness of herself as a sexual being for the first time and that Jared was able to unleash that part of her was amazing. She ran a light hand over her lips, then her breasts and finally her hips. She sighed and went into the shower hoping that it would shock her back into the person she was two weeks ago. Lily dressed in a dark blue skirt that reached her mid-thigh and an ivory colored blouse that tucked in neatly and showed off the high swell of her breast to modest perfection. Her hands paused in the middle of tucking in her shirt as she remembered that Jared really had asked her to marry him and it wasn’t a part of her dreams. He had asked her to marry him and she had said no. Her hands shook as she completed her dressing rituals. She had a job to do and she was late for work, she chanted her work ethic all the way to the main house. Jared had his first three dates today and Lily tried not to think of what was going on between the women or current woman and Jared. It was after lunch by the time she got into her office and any hopes of avoiding Jared today was shot when he came into her office. He seemed to be in an exceptionally good mood, whistling nonsense and fussing with a very feminine scarf that he had tied around his neck. She couldn’t help but laugh at the sight he made; he looked like an undecided gay decorator. “Take the scarf off Jared; it’s not your color. It’s mine anyway, I was looking for that yesterday but couldn’t find it anywhere.” He took the scarf off and tucked it in his back pocket. “Hey, that’s mine. You gave it to me and you can’t take it back.” Jared pretended not to hear her. “Why don’t you come and get it?” He challenged softly. His eyes took in the blue skirt that showed off her legs and the blouse that showed the roundness of her breast and failed to hide the protrusion of her erect nipples. Jared’s body went stiff with a need that hadn’t fully subsided in days. “I don’t think that’s a good idea, I’ll just get it later.” She caught the look in his eyes and quickly went around the owner’s side of the desk and sat down. She had started to perspire as the images in her dreams met the man from her dreams. “How did the dates go Prince Charming?” She held her breath waiting for his answer. He groaned in disgust as he flopped down in her spare chair and looked at her suspiciously. “You found women like those on purpose to torture me didn’t you?” “What are you accusing