“I’m showing them my fun side,” I reply dryly.
He leans against the wall grinning. “Did you show that model your fun side?”
He was talking about the Brazilian brunette that spoke five languages and told me what she wanted to do to me in each of them.
Just my type.
“No,” I answered truthfully. “I went home by myself.” “Opportunity missed,” he says with a grin.
“That guy Mike’s a lunatic. I don’t think he gets out much. Where did he end up? He was trying to go to another bar after the strip club closed. Some East London lock-in”.
“In a gutter for all I care.” I snort. “Mike’s a prick.”
Spraying thousand-pound bottles of champagne around on the company’s money. I should dock it from his fucking salary.
“He’ll be gone soon.” Karl shrugs. “It was interesting seeing Tristan’s little sister, Charlie.”
He looks at me closely. “Did you know she worked here before we started the acquisition?”
“Of course I did.” I return. “I’m executing a plan so that she’s looked after. She’s just resisting the offer right now. She’ll come around.”
He cocks his head, his mouth twisting into a smirk. “Did some of this execution happen last night?”
I slam my laptop shut, giving him my full attention. “What do you mean?”
He raises his arms animatedly. “I knew it! You could cut the sexual tension with a knife.”
“So?” His voice hitches. “There’s something going on between you two? I’m assuming this is the reason why you are barking at all your staff and rebuffing models.”
“There’s been a few….” I flounder, searching for the right word. “Incidents.” “Incidents?”
I exhale a heavy sigh. “She barged into my office one evening when I was uh sorting myself out.” He frowns in confusion then his eyes widen.
“She caught you jerking off?” He throws his head back, letting out a disbelieving laugh. “Man, you cannot be serious.”
“Deadly,” I grimace. “I thought the door was locked. And my employees don’t usually have the audacity to barge into my office uninvited.”
My chest tightens. “That’s not the worst part. I was watching a video of her at the time.”
He stares at me, unblinking. “Damn Danny. That’s the creepiest thing I’ve ever heard. Are we going to be hit with a lawsuit?”
I slump in my leather wingback chair. “Let me worry about that.”
His mouth twitches into a smirk. “Did she offer to give you a hand?”
I look at him flatly. “No”
“She didn’t leave, though,” I add. “She stood there… and watched”.
His jaw drops. “You kept going?”
I wince. “It wasn’t something I could stop.”
“Christ, man.” He breaks into hysterical laughter, and I wait for the fit to end. Yes, very funny. “And they say I’m the reckless Walker. This is the most cliche porn movie script ever. Big bad boss seduces young junior employee.”
“Did you fuck her in this office?”
“No. But I finished in front of her.”
I let out a joyless chuckle. “I was too out of control. The person I was imagining stroking my dick, and she rocks up midway through. I didn’t stand a chance.” “Did she enjoy the show?” Karl teases.
“It would appear so because I went to her flat that night to apologise, one thing led to another, and we went too far….” I’m not willing to give away details.
“You slept with her?” he grins. “I knew it. I could smell the sex hormones a mile off from both of you last night.”
“No,” I say quickly. “She’s volatile as fuck. She hates me, She wants me. She hates me. She’s like a pendulum. We had a nice moment in her flat, then she flipped and kicked me out. This drama is fucking insufferable.”
He slaps his forehead. “You two need to sleep with each other and get this out of your systems.”
“I can’t just sleep with her.” I frown. “She’s too young. Too much at stake. I might have already fucked up my closest friendship. Man, if he found out….” I trail off.
I shudder at the thought of losing my best pal of 20 years.
“Tristan would go absolutely nuts.” he nods. “It’s his one rule, stay the fuck away from his sister.”
“Never mind the fact that she’s an employee. I don’t dip my nib in the company ink.”
“But fuck, she’s hot. I’m just gutted you got in first. I’m not friends with Tristan; I happily fuck her.”
I narrow my eyes on him. “Don’t even fucking look in her direction.”
He gives me a devilish grin. “Damn, you do have it bad this time.”
“What happened last night?” He probes. “You disappeared for ages.”
I lean forward and place my elbows on the desk. “That would be the reason behind my expensive dry cleaning bill in a dry cleaner 3 miles away.”
His eyebrows shoot up. “In the bathroom? Christ, Danny, any of the team could have walked him.” I don’t indulge him with an answer.
“Is it purely physical?” He studies me. “Do you want a relationship with her?”
I run my hands through my hair, aggravated at the interrogation. “It’s physical. She’s too young and hot-headed. We aren’t suited.”
“Then keep your dick in your pants.” He rolls his eyes. “There are a million beautiful 25-yearolds out there that’ll happily oblige you.” “28,” I correct.
“Look, she’s beautiful and feisty and sexy as hell, I get it,” he says. “You’ve known her for years, and she’s off-limits. You want what you can’t have. But just don’t stir up shit. You can’t sleep with
Charlie then walk away without repercussions.”
“I bloody know that.” I snap. “I’ve been trying to tame my cock ever since she drunkenly straddled me when she was at uni. Now I have to watch her waltz around the office fucking teasing me.”
“At least in the Nexus HQ, you’ll be separated by floors instead of this pokey office.”
“I’m hoping she will have seen sense by then and accepted my voluntary redundancy payout.”
“He’ll know, Karl.” I stare out the window. “Tristan’s starting to ask questions already about what’s eating me.”
He nods. “This is heading for disaster, Danny. Quit before you break her heart and severely fuck things up.”
Fuck, I’m screwed.