Page 30 of Vows In Corruption

Her questioning is making me uncomfortable. So much so that I can’t help but to shift in my seat.

“Is that out of character for him?”

Linda is silent for a few seconds before she says anything.

“Yes. Yes, it is.” She says and then pauses for a few seconds before she says something that shocks me more than anything that has happened this morning.

“More so when he was the one that hired you.”

What the actual fuck? He hired me? Me? I’m sure that even though this is a low status position, there had to be hundreds of applications. So out of all of those applications, he chose me?

So many questions roam through my mind as Linda gives me a crash course on all my employment forms, that I don’t even pay attention to what she is saying.

As I sit here, listening to her speak, I can’t help but wonder who is Bennett Lane really is and why did he deem me so special?

8

BENNETT

The second I walk out of Linda’s office, I feel as if someone is watching me. Just like I did the second I stepped onto this floor. As I head back to the elevator bank, I ignore all the eyes looking my way. You would think I was in a fucking monkey suit with how hard people stare in my direction whenever I’m within a few feet from them. I know I barely make it out of my office on most days but it’s ridiculous. If I were a different man, I would fire every single person on this floor just because their stares irritate me.

But I’m not that cruel.

Well, I am, but they don’t need to know that.

As soon as I’m in the elevator, and away from the infuriating stares, I pull out my phone and log into the company database. The urgency to learn everything that I can about my new employee it rolling though my body like a damn title wave.

Growing up, my parents and Henry would attend school conferences regarding my lack of attention when it came to certain subjects. It was something that extended well into high school. I wasn’t as enthused about learning about English and history as I was about science or math, they would say. Those were my two favorite subjects but to some of my teachers, that didn’t matter, they wanted my attention no matter what.

Thankfully, my parents and Henry were on my side and on more than one occasion informed the educators that it takes a lot for my attention to be captured and if they weren’t getting it then they were doing something wrong.

Is that the exact words that they said? I have no clue, I was never present for those meetings, but that’s what I was told was said. To this day, it still takes a lot for someone or something to capture my full attention. Especially when the title of CEO is so close to being in my head and I have to concentrate on getting all the votes that I need to make it happen. My concentration should be on that and that alone.

But all of that went to shit when my car pulled up to the front of the Lane building and my attention went from wanting to conquer whole damn city to the woman that was standing a few feet away from the entrance.

From the angle I was in, I was only able to see her back, but apparently that was enough to have my eyes moving up and down her body, taking in every visible inch of her as if she was mine for the taking.

Why she captured my attention, I have no idea but she did and as soon as my driver opened the car door for me, I started making my way over to her. I had a meeting with a tech company in Australia, but they could wait. In that very moment, she was more important.

Whoever she was.

So I walked over to her.

I was only going to catch a quick glimpse of her, see her face, and engrain it into my memory so that I can find her later, but then I heard her speak.

The words weren’t for me to, but when I heard her tone, I wanted them to be. I wanted every damn word that came out of her mouth to be for me and me alone.

I have no fucking clue what came over me when I laid eyes on this woman. I haven’t had this visceral of a reaction to the opposite sex in half a decade, and yet here is this woman, who looked lost and its as if a firecracker has been lit up in me.

More so when she let out a yelp when I spoke out loud. I don’t know why, but watching this woman get flushed and flustered was fucking adorable and I don’t usually find thing adorable.

For a second, I wonder who she was and why I was so damn intrigued by her?

My intrigue for her grew when she turns to finally meet my gaze, her eyes going slightly wide and her mouth popping open just the slightest bit. From the back I wanted to claim her as mine to have but when I looked into those gray eyes of hers and took in every single inch of her beauty, I wanted to ravage her and never let her go.

Damn, just thinking about it now makes my mouth water. When I looked into her eyes, that when I knew that I was going to fucking hell. This strange woman was just looking at me, like anyone else would if a stranger had approached them, but just a simple look was making my dick twitch.

Her eyes were just as beautiful as ever other part of her that I could see.

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