Page 40 of Secrets, Lies and Love

I look at the bedside table to check that the device’s monitor is correctly positioned in the crib, when I realize that the battery has run out.

Damn, I didn’t even think about that.

I run out and hope the baby isn’t crying, but in the hallway, I freeze when I come face-to-face with my boss.

Dionysus

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“Oh my God!I’m sorry I’m dressed like this, Mr. Dionysus. I forgot to charge the extra baby monitor. I didn’t know you had already arrived,” Cecily says, trying to cover herself.

It’s not fast enough, because I can map her entire body through the thin nightgown. I feel myself stiffening, my dick heavy with lust.

I should let her go, but seeing her embarrassment and, at the same time, remembering what happened yesterday, makes me break the promise I made to myself to keep everything on a professional level.

“Stop.”

Although she was about to enter her room again, she halts, her back to me.

I walk over to where she is but stop before I invade her personal space. “Why are you so scared, Cecily? You’re not naked, just in a nightgown.”

She turns slowly until we are face-to-face. “I shouldn’t let you see me like this, sir,” she says, her face flushed.

Despite what I said, I’m tense too. I prepared myself to keep everything under control, never crossing the barrier between employer and employee again. As I told her, I have never had a relationship with anyone who received payment from me.

“How was your day?” I ask.

“Good.”

I can tell she’s trying not to show that she remembers yesterday, but I know she does. Cecily’s blue eyes give her away completely, as does the way her chest rises and falls with short breaths.

She swallows hard because, virgin or not, she knows what I’m thinking as I stare at her. I watch the movement in her delicate neck, and I need every ounce of my self-control to not take another step forward and feel her silky skin with my fingers.

“Justgood?That doesn’t sound like a professional report.” Yes, I’m provoking her on purpose. Anything is better than having her staring at me with the same hunger I feel.

“I thought you knew everything that goes on here. Didn’t you ask your employees to watch me?”

“Of course. As I told you, you are taking care of my most precious asset. I will closely follow your every step.”

“I don’t care,” she replies, rebelliously. “I love your son, and I will take care of him with all my love. Besides, if I were you, I would do the same. Now, if you’ll excuse me...”

“I don’t excuse you.”

“What?”

“I want to know why you didn’t have the spare baby monitor ready. You can’t make that kind of mistake, Cecily.”

“I know, and I’m sorry, Mr.—"

“I don’t want you to call me that. Just Dionysus.”

“Your employees call you Mr. Kostanidis.”

“Because I don’t give them the freedom to do different.”

“Then why are you authorizing me?”

“Because I can and I want to.”

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