Page 31 of Crave: A Reverse Harem Romance

Not Axel when he saw me. No, he’d probably be thrilled and take me right there in his office.

Desk sex… that sounded pretty hot.

I had fluffed up my hair a bit in the elevator and straightened out my dress so I’d look my best when I saw Axel again.

Both fortunately and unfortunately, that hadn’t happened.

Instead, the person I saw was Ryker.

He was in the hall just outside of the elevator when it opened, and he remembered me immediately. “Harlow, you’re here.” He looked around, confused. “Do you need something?”

I was embarrassed. I knew I shouldn’t have been up here, but in my head, Axel was going to be the one to find me. Ryker had seemed strict with the rules, though, and I feared I was about to get in trouble.

“Actually, I was just, um… looking for Axel,” I admitted.

If he didn’t think I was easy before, I was sure he thought so now. There was no doubt in my mind he knew the exact reason that I’d wanted to see Axel.

But I didn’t feel like lying.

“He’s not here today, unfortunately,” Ryker told me.

I couldn’t control the disappointment that crossed my face. “Oh… okay. Well, um, thanks.”

I began to step backward and turn toward the elevator when he spoke again.

“Was there something I could help you with, perhaps?”

I laughed. “No, I don’t think you can help with this particular… thing.” Did he really not know why I had come here?

“But can’t I?” He looked at me seriously.

I raised an eyebrow. I wasn’t sure I was understanding him correctly at first. His words sounded almost seductive, but surely he wasn’t trying to seduce me, right? I mean, it seemed so unlike him.

“I don’t know.” I nibbled at my lip. “Can you?”

He smiled. “Step into my office. There’s no reason we can’t find out.”

I thought about this. Either he thought I had some legit problem I needed help with and I was going to go into this office and be immediately embarrassed… or he was saying what I thought he was saying.

That he wanted me.

In his office.

Naked.

If it was the latter, I didn’t have to think twice. Yes, I came here for Axel, and he was hot… but so was Ryker. Just in a different, more serious kind of way. I had assumed he was too focused on business fool around at work.

But if he did? If he actually was propositioning me?

Well, I wasn’t going to pass that offer up.

To my shock, the second he shut the door behind me, he started kissing me. My instincts had been right. This was exactly what he’d been after. And he was pretty forceful in the way he took me.

The sex was incredibly different from what I’d done with Axel, but not in a bad way. Neither one seemed worse or better, they just both seemed… hot. Indescribably sexy. I couldn’t get either out of my head.

When Ryker asked me to stay, I really wanted to oblige. But I told myself I had to hold the same rules with him as I did with Axel. I couldn’t let myself get attached. I couldn’t keep getting to know these guys. It was sex or nothing. I wouldn’t let my heart get in the way, only to be disappointed.

Not again. Not this time.

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