Page 30 of The CEO's Christmas Wife

“Yeah. I really need to sleep in the bed tonight because that floor ain’t no joke on my back. But I don’t want to make you uncomfortable.”

“I won’t be uncomfortable. You have as much right to be in this bed as I do. You should sleep up here. I promise not to attack you.”

I chuckled and slid into the bed. There was no way that I could hold her the way that I wanted to, so I turned my back to her. Hell, I couldn’t even look at her. I became overwhelmed by her scent and wanted to touch or kiss her.

I started drifting off to sleep with visions of Kandi dancing in my head. Something hit me hard in the back of the head and jolted me awake.

“What the?—”

Kandi was giggling and sitting on the edge of the bed. She wielded a pillow like a weapon.

“I know ya li’l ass didn’t just hit me with that pillow.”

“I did. What are you gonna do about it?” she asked, holding it up high again.

I shook my head and turned back over. “Don’t hit me again, Kandi. I ain’t playing.”

A couple of minutes passed, and she hit me again. Her laughter flowed over me and warmed me inside.

“That’s it.” I grabbed my pillow, and Kandi jumped off the bed. I chased her around the room, caught up with her, and hit her with my pillow.

“That was too hard, Kayn.”

“Don’t start none, won’t be none.”

I hit her again, and she jumped onto the bed. When I drew close, she hit me again, much harder, but I could take it. This time, I swung, but she jumped off the bed in the nick of time. I chased her again and finally caught up to her. We attacked each other for several minutes before I tossed my pillow, grabbed her around her waist, and then threw her on the bed.

She reached over her head for another pillow to hit me with. I jumped on the bed with her but fell on top of her. Itried grabbing the pillow from her hands, but she shifted. I was between her legs with her hot core pressed against me, and in my mind, I was back in the bathroom all over again. Not only could I see myself kissing her, but I could feel the emotions, the intensity, and the desire that I felt when I kissed her all over again.

I stared at her lips, and I wanted to taste them so badly. She was very responsive to every touch, kiss, and all the attention that I gave her. I could drop a kiss on her forehead, and she responded eagerly and positively to it.

Unable to ignore the temptation brewing between us and the desire I had for her, I brushed my lips against hers. She inhaled deeply, and our gazes locked on one another. I licked her lips and then sucked each of them one at a time.

I pulled back and stared into her eyes again, and my heart slammed against my chest cavity. There was no way that I was falling for this girl. I needed space between us.

“Kayn.”

I moved off her and sat up. Dropping my hands on my knees, I sighed. “I can’t.”

“What do you mean you can’t, Kayn?”

“Exactly what I said. You work for me, and I don’t fuck my staff,” I ground out through clenched teeth.

I wasn’t trying to be an asshole; it was just who I was.

“You weren’t exactly fucking me, Kayn, and I’d like to believe that we weren’t going to be fucking but maybe having sex. If not making love,” she stated as an afterthought.

“Definitely not making love.” I scoffed.

“You don’t have to be so cruel.”

“I’m not trying to be, Kandi,” I replied, gripping her arm when she moved away from me. “Listen, we’re treading a very fine line. I don’t think either of us expected things to go this way when you proposed the idea of being my fake wife.”

“No, we didn’t, but I don’t see the problem.”

“There are problems no matter which way we look at this. Sexual harassment is a very real thing. I probably shouldn’t be saying this, and I damn sure shouldn’t have even contemplated your idea when you proposed it. Any lawyer would have a field day with this thing, and Paige would be having a heart attack if she had an inkling that I put this company in a situation like this.”

“We’re adults, Kayn, and the company doesn’t have a no-fraternization policy.”

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