Dark dread fills me as I watch him go. He’s right about me seeking Dad’s approval, more than right since I got from the horse’s mouth myself that I wasn’t immune to being fired.
What I don’t want Allen to be right about is his threat to tell Dad that I keep turning him down.
The significant thing about it though is Allen may be a prick, but he doesn’t talk shit he’s not confident in.
Chapter Nine
Dante
I saw Rachel when she came in.
I saw her meeting with Allen in the restaurant and I wondered if maybe I should steer her in his direction.
It would fix a lot of things, but I’d always be left feeling like shit.
I watch her as she walks down the stairs with Jia. She’s talking about something. It looks like it something she feels passionate about from the expression on her face and Jia rests her hand on her shoulder in a reassuring way.
I’m supposed to be seeing Rachel and Allen tomorrow but I don’t know what I’ll be like.
Earlier my secretary told me Rachel came by asking for me. Now I’m standing by my office door leafing through my files. I know she’ll see me the second she finishes talking with Jia.
I’ve been away from her for over twenty four hours. It’s been enough time to think and come up with a plan. It’s just that I don’t know what the fuck I’m supposed to do. I still don’t know.
I look at her standing over there in her beige mini skirt and a little top that accentuates her breasts and all I want is those tits in my face and my cock inside her pussy.
I can’t think past that.
Jia leaves her and just as I predict Rachel turns and sees me standing across the way.
She walks toward me and even though she doesn’t smile the smile is in her eyes.
The smile turns into a sparkle when she stops a breath away.
“Hi,” she says.
“Hello Princesa,” I answer, and try to calm my need to kiss that pink gloss off her lips, and take her right here against the wall.
“I was just coming to say hi.”
“Let’s go in my office.” I really am signing my death warrant aren’t I?
I was about to place my hand to the small of her back but I think better of it when I see Tina; the office gossip cast a glance my way. The women here are like sharks. The second they heard about my break up with Marie they were all after me like I was a piece of meat in a market.
Rachel and I go inside my office and I close the door, locking it.
She sees me lock it and tries to bite back a smile when I focus on her.
I reach for her elbow and plant a kiss on her forehead, still trying my best to keep it kosher.
“You okay?” I ask when she rests her hand on my chest.
“I don’t know.”
“What’s up?”
“Allen. I can’t stand him Dante. He’s an asshole and dad likes him that means collateral.”
She wouldn’t normally talk like this if it wasn’t bothering her.