I keep having flashbacks.

Sofia’s legs spread open, a small smile on her lips as I tease her wet pussy.

The feeling of her throat expanding to take my cock.

Ropes flexing as she strains against them.

My cum covering her chest and stomach.

I try and concentrate on my work. But just knowing she’s out there, waiting to be taken again, whenever I want to have her, is driving me insane. I can barely think about anything else right now. It’s all Sofia, all the time.

As I’m bending over a stack of papers, signing a bunch of routine documents, I get a buzz from Minnie.

“Josh Lasko, here to see you,” she says.

Josh is the IT guy. “Send him in,” I say.

He looks a little harried and tired as he comes into my office. His shirt is untucked and there are big black bags under his eyes, like he hasn’t slept in days. He closes the door and sits down in front of me.

“You look exhausted,” I say to him, frowning.

“It was an interesting night,” he admits to me.

“What did you find?”

“Well…” He sighs and shakes his head.

I nod, understanding immediately. “You want to show me. Come on, let’s take a walk.”

We stand together and leave my office. Minnie gives us a strange look but I smile and tell her to hold my calls. We head down to the end of the hall where there’s a large window overlooking the city. Clay’s office is to the left, though his door is shut.

Josh stands close to me. “Should be safe here,” he says.

“What did you find?”

“Bugs.” His eyes go wide. “Everywhere.”

He proceeds to tell me the story of last night. He started out simple, just searching the obvious places, but the more he searched, the more he found. There are probably fifty of them, all told, and they’re all transmitting.

“Local,” he says. “I’m sure of that. Someone is receiving them locally. They’re not good quality though. Don’t get a lot of detail. You have to be right on top of them to hear anything.”

“Where’s the bug in my office?”

“Behind the filing cabinet.”

I nod grimly. That makes sense. It wouldn’t pick up a lot of what Sofia and I did then, since we weren’t near that part of the room.

“Where else?” I ask him.

“Here’s a map.” He hands me two printed pages with blueprints of the office. “Bugs are marked with a little ‘x’.” He hesitates a second. “Jacob, this is serious stuff.”

“I know,” I tell him. “But you did the right thing.”

“Shouldn’t we get rid of them? I mean, if someone is spying on us…” He trails off, shaking his head.

“No, I know who this is.” It’s Karl, I’m absolutely positive of it. “Let me take care of it.”

“Okay.” He sighs. “I have one more thing.” He hands me more printed pages. “You told me to watch Karl Slay’s emails, and I did. He sent these last night.”

I take them from him and skim the headers. They’re all emails to the board. “Thanks Josh,” I say. “I won’t forget this.”

“Please, just be careful.”

“I will be.” I shake his hand and hold it a second longer than normal. “Thank you. Go home and take the day off.”

He nods. “I will. I appreciate that.”

I watch as he walks away before I lean up against the window and start to read the emails.

It’s what I expected. Karl is slandering me, telling the board that I’ve been making inappropriate advances on members of his staff, suggesting that I’ve been misappropriating company funds and assets. He even goes so far as to say that my personal car is somehow stealing from the company, though I pay the driver and it’s my damn car.

I didn’t think I’d be angry, seeing this. I expected him to make this move. But rage flows through me anyway. I hate that he’s out there fucking lying about me, telling these half-truths, trying to destroy my reputation. He already took enough from me, already took the confidence of the board, but now he wants to completely destroy me.

Without thinking, I start walking. I get into the elevator, and as I ride it down, I text Sofia. “Meet me outside.”

I sit down on the rim of the fountain that’s in front of our building. There aren’t many people out, since the morning rush is over. I read over the emails again, wanting to tear them apart, wanting to punch Karl in his smug fucking asshole face. Instead, I keep it together.

“Hey, Jacob.” I turn around and Sofia’s striding toward me, gorgeous Sofia. After our little session, I dropped her back off at home. She’s wearing tight, dark dress slacks and a navy blouse that makes her skin look gorgeous.

“Hey, you.” I stand as she approaches. “I’d kiss you, but…”

“I know.” She frowns. “What’s wrong?”

Wordlessly I hand her the emails. She takes them with a quizzical look, but that confusion is quickly replaced by anger.

“That fucking asshole,” she says. “He can’t do this.”

“He can and he did.”

“How’d you get these anyway?”

I grin at her. “I have an IT guy watching him.”

“Clever,” she says.

“He also found the bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.” I show her the maps. “Your desk is bugged along with the break room and your friend Darlene’s desk. So keep that in mind.”

“God damn,” she says, eyes wide. “He’s insane.”

“I know. But we can use this.”

“Can we?”

“Probably,” I say. “Maybe if I don’t break his fucking jaw first.”

“Jacob,” she says softly.

“I hate him,” I answer, fierce rage flowing again. “I’ve never met someone so willing to lie and to manipulate to get what they want. He’ll say or do anything to embarrass me, just to make himself look better.”

“He’s beneath you,” she says. “You know that.”

I turn away, so angry I can barely stand it. “I want to break him.”

She puts her hand on my back. “Jacob. You will. You have so much on him already. Why not show the board this?”

I turn back to her and sigh. “I don’t know if I can, not yet at least. Not with all these accusations against me. I’m going to have to go on the defensive for now.”

“He’s the guilty one,” she says. “He’s the one that should burn, not you.”

“I know.” I sigh again. I can feel the anger slowly draining out of me. Sofia steps closer and I want to pull her against me, kiss her lips, get a taste of what I really hunger for. But I know I can’t. Karl could be watching, that creepy fuck.

“Come on,” I say to her. “Thanks for talking me down.”

She shrugs a little. “I didn’t do anything.”

“Yes, you did. You showed up.” We walk back toward the building together.

It feels good, having her by my side. I wish we could be closer right now, but this feels like enough. Besides, after work I can do anything I want with her, and I will.

We head back into the building and we ride the elevator together. She gets off at her floor with a small smile and a quick hand squeeze, and I head back to my office. Once I’m inside, I close the door and pull out the filing cabinet slowly.

Sure enough, there’s a black device taped to the back. I slowly push the cabinet back and sit down at my desk.

I stare at the map in front of me. I know what I have to do, but it’s going to take some maneuvering and a little bit of luck. But this is a start, a damn good start. Karl thinks he has the upper hand, but I know his secrets, and I’m going to bring it all down.