“I can feel you staring at me.”

I was a bit startled because I didn’t know that he was awake. Now his big brown eyes were looking at me and I didn't know what to say. Instead, I did the adult thing and hit my face.

“Come on Evony. It's time to get up and get to work.”

I was usually really not too bad getting up in the morning, but today I didn't want to. Today I just wanted to lay back and reminisce about the night before. What we had done.

“I have been sleeping all that time?”

He nodded in agreement and told me that he figured I needed the sleep.

When I sat up, I realized that I wasn’t wearing any clothes under the sheets, that I now pulled up to my chin. It wasn’t like he hadn’t seen it all the day before, but that didn’t mean that I was able to swallow the idea of it all. This was far more intimate, than anything that I’d ever done before.

“I thought I went to sleep with clothes on?” Yeah like that was my biggest worry.

“You did, but I thought you might want to be a little more comfortable. You move around in your sleep a lot.”

“Yeah, I usually don't wear clothes for that reason. They always get screwed up in the night when I move around.”

It was true that I slept in the nude for a reason, but I still didn't like the idea of taking my clothes off. What was he thinking? What was I thinking? Now we had to go to work together and pretend like none of this happened. I didn't know how I was going to be able to do that.

“Well just point me in the direction of the shower, and I will get out of your way so you can get ready.”

I could see that his hair was already wet, so it was clear that he was up before me and had just laid back down. I don't know why, but I was almost sad that he wasn't going to come with me. It was silly, I knew it.

He pointed down the hallway and told me that I would run right into the bathroom. I thanked him and used the sheet to cover myself up better. I walked to the bathroom, wrapped in the sheet. It dragged behind me and I tried my best not to look behind me to see if Hail was looking. I’d already given enough to him. I needed to hold back on giving him my heart as well.

The hot water felt so good on my used muscles that were sore from bunching up so tightly the night before. It was like nothing I had ever imagined was possible between two people.

Before this night, I thought they were just exaggerating about sex and pleasure, but it wasn't an exaggeration at all. It felt as good as they made it out to be. I couldn't believe how good it all actually felt. I still couldn't really believe that anything felt that good. Nothing in this world should feel as good as I did.

When I got out of the shower, I was relaxed in my body, but my mind was running a mile a minute. All I could think about was being with Hail. I wasn't even questioning what it meant or what I wanted it to mean. It was more just the feelings that hung out over me.

I wrapped the towel around my waste and was walking back to the room that I shared with Hail, when I realized that I didn’t have anything else to wear here. I was going to have to get something before I went to work, there was no way that I was going in with yesterday’s clothes on.

I had to go back to my place and find something to wear. I obviously couldn't wear the same dress again. I don't know what I was thinking, staying here. I couldn't believe that I had passed out and woke up the next morning. None of this was likely.

“You are going to have to take me back to my house, Hale. I need to get something to wear for work. And since you picked me up last night, my car isn’t with me.”

“I’d love to watch you change.”

He always had a cute answer and I scowled at him until he realized that I wasn’t playing along today.

“No problem. I'm about ready, just give me a minute and we will go get you something to wear.”

Still laughing, I could see the hard lines of his chest. That was a sight that I could never get sick of. Ever.

“You look good this morning. I like that tie.”

Instead of getting ready myself and putting the dress on, I was still standing in the same position where I had been staring at him. He was very rigid, and I wonder what would happen if I touched him. Would he seem as hard as he was? It appeared like he was solid muscle and I wanted to know what that felt like. I know what it felt like for him to hold me, and now to pleasure me like he had last night. Now I wanted more.

“You know Evony, it is still rude to stare.”

My teeth clench up a little bit from his words and I looked away. He wasn't supposed to see me like this. He wasn't supposed to know how much I wanted to be with him like before. I am not doing a very good job of hiding it.

I had Hail drop me off at my house and leave, because I didn’t want to go into work with him. He was more than willing to wait a little while, so I could get ready, but I didn’t want rumors to start because we rode in together. It would get tongues wagging and that’s the last thing in the world that I wanted.

When I got to my office, I wasn’t able to get a moment’s break because now I was right across the room from Hail. It was a large room of course, but that didn’t mean that I couldn’t still physically see him. My mind went to naughty places with him so close and there was nothing that I could do about it. Nothing at all and that might have been the worst part of it all.

I tried to focus, but every time I looked up, Hail was smirking at me and I knew what was on his mind. It was the same thing that was on my mind as well. I knew then that I was going to have to do something to smooth things over. We couldn’t act like this forever. I mean, we have to work together after all. So, we're going to have to figure out some way to do it. Basically I was going to have to figure out a way to work with him, while I wasn't sure how that was going to work out, I knew that we were going to have to figure it out one way or another.

When it was time for lunch, I went over to talk to Hail. I was nervous, but something kept me going forward, because I knew that I had to. I knew that one way or another, this was going to have to work out. I finally got the job I wanted, and I wasn't going to give it up because of my weaknesses.

I don't know why I was filled with such anxiety to talk to Hail. It isn't like we haven't done much more in the past, but for some reason, today I couldn't get it together. How can I talk to a man that had done so many things to me the night before? I can still feel them and heaven help me, I wanted to do it again.

“Hey Hal. Do you have anything going for lunch?”

“No not today. Do you?”

“I was wondering if you wanted to go out and have lunch together. Maybe we could talk about last night.”

That quick gradient smile that I was so used to was back on his face and he had the unsettling look of need in his eyes. I know what last night had done for me and I was starting to get what it done for him. It only seemed to make him want it more and I know that this time, it wasn’t just to please me that he wanted.

“Do you want to go back to my place to have lunch?”

It was a loaded question, because I knew exactly what would happen if I went to lunch with him. If it was at a restaurant, we could talk and maybe figure things out, but if we went back to his place, there would be no talking. I would find myself back in his bed and I knew that I would not be able to tell him no. After feeling what he could do just kissing on me, I could imagine what all the rest of it would feel like. I had waited all this time and I wasn’t about to give it all up because of Hail. Sex wasn’t worth this stress and drama apparently, but I was starting to realize that I was better off never knowing that. If this is what came out of it. Never been able to think straight again.

“No, I don’t think that would be a very good idea. I know that you have something on your mind, that I don’t. That’s what I want to talk to you about. We don’t need to make it worse, doing it again.”

He pouted and it made me smile. I missed the back and forth we had, and for a moment I could forget what happened between us. I missed the times that we had with each other. I just missed him. It was different now that I wasn't his assistant. I was his equal, but I didn't get to see him near as much. There seem to be pros and cons either way.

“So, you are already thinking about doing it again, huh?”

I just sighed out loud and shook my head. “You really are an idiot, sometimes aren’t you?”

Hail just smirked at me. He always had this little grin on his face like he had a secret. Knowing him, maybe he did. All I knew, is that it was hard to resist when he looked at me that way.

“What can I say, you bring it out in me.”

I wasn’t going to hear it and I started to walk to the elevator. We had a lot to talk about and I didn’t know how it was going to go. He was already making me want more. My body reacted to him since I was his assistant and we started to get close, but now it was quicker. It was so quick that it took my breath away, no matter how often he was near.

Now when he licked his lips, all I could think about was the damage that they could cause. When he smiled now, all I could see was the way he’d looked right before I closed my eyes when he started licking on me. Every time I saw him, I was reminded of his hard chest, thick arms and magical hands. How could I ever see him as anything else?

“You’re staring again, Evony. You really should work on that.”

I sighed at his comment and told him that he was being ridiculous. There was nothing that I was going to be able to do to work on it. I was caught up in something I tried to stay away from. Love, lust, whatever this was, I couldn’t help but think that I’d been better off without knowing. Now it was consuming me, and I started to get it. I thought that it was all juvenile the way people acted, but now I knew. It wasn’t childish at all. It was anything, but. What we had done together, was something that we were made to do, and I couldn’t get my mind around it. I wanted to so badly do it again.

The elevator dinged and I was thankful to have a moment to get out of the small metal box that I shared with him. It was too close for comfort as it goes, and I could breathe again when I walked out of the building. He’d sucked all of the air out of the small space and it was stifling.

“Let’s just take my car.”

“No, I’ll follow you.”

I know what can happen in the back of his car and I really needed a little space. If not, I don’t know what I was going to do.

Make another mistake. That’s what I was going to do. And I couldn’t let it happen. He’s already occupied far more of my mind than I wanted him to.