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His exhale warmed my skin a second before I felt his lips there.
“I’ve waited so long to smell you like this, Wrenly.Imagine the best thing you’ve ever smelled in your life times ten.”His nose brushed my skin as he inhaled again.“That’s what your scent was like just now.Not addictive, but irresistible on a level you can’t begin to understand.”His lips brushed my skin again, sending a shiver racing through me.“But I am resisting so that you don’t have to.”
His hands captured mine, which had stopped pushing at his shoulders.
“Let yourself feel what comes naturally.”
He nuzzled closer, kissing my neck tenderly as I sat on his lap, locked in an internal battle that I was losing.
Ilikedthe way he made me feel.It was new and exciting and insanely potent.His touch had my head spinning, and I struggled to remember why it was a bad idea.Why was I trying to leave?
“Sorry to interrupt, but I need Wrenly for a second,” Miranda said, jerking me from my daze.
I scrambled off his lap and bolted out the door.
“You're fired,” I heard Bennett say.
“No, I’m not.You’re going to give me a raise before the end of next week.”
She closed the door on him and turned to raise an eyebrow as she grinned and held out my shoes.
“Let’s go for a walk.”
I groaned and took my shoes from her.From the corner of my eye, I saw Bennett stand from the couch to watch me put them on.
“Is he really going to fire you?”I asked.
“He can try, but I think if I weren’t here, you’d stop coming to work.”
Her self-satisfied smile was contagious because she wasn’t wrong.We walked out of the office suite together and took the elevators down to the lobby.
“What work aren’t you getting done by hanging out with me?”I asked as we left again, this time to stroll along the sidewalk.
“Nothing important.All that stuff was delegated to the other girls so I could be your emotional support shopper today, which is why Milena is so mad.Who wouldn’t want to get paid to go shopping?”
“Me.”
She chuckled.“You’re the exception, not the norm.So what happened back there?Are you changing your mind about accepting him?”
“No!That was…an accident.He was rubbing my feet, and one thing led to another when my guard was down.”
“I thought that might have been the case, which is why I’d interrupted.But are you sure you want to keep fighting it?I could smell your attraction.You liked it.A lot.”
If she knew it, then so did Bennett.
My stomach dipped at the thought.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
I once again debated howmuch to tell Miranda and decided that, with her nose, I wouldn’t be giving much away by being honest.
“The problem has never been my attraction to Bennett.It’s about leaving the cage they put me in and finding my freedom.”
“That sounds a bit dramatic.”
I paused and looked at her.“Do you remember how I reacted when you pinned me to the door?”
She frowned a little.“You didn’t really react at all.No fear.Just…you.Are you trying to make me feel guilty about that?Because it’s working.”
