Guilty Pleasure (5 page)

He slowly eased his cock from her. He pulled
his pants up and zipped them. He walked over to the front of his
desk.

She slowly stood up straight. She pulled her
skirt down and tried to cover her breasts with the tattered remains
of her shirt and bra.

The room was uncomfortably quiet.

“
Sir…I…”

“
Stay right here. I will be
right back.”

Nicole couldn’t look him in the eyes. She
gradually sat on the chair. What the hell just happened? She didn’t
have time to ponder this because he came right back in.

“
Here, put this
on.”

She grabbed the white dress shirt from
him.

“
I should have been more
careful,” he said calmly.

How in the hell can he be so damn calm right
now, after fucking her like that?

“
I wanted that to happen,
Nicole. I’m hoping you feel the same. Your passion about this case
excited me.”

“
I don’t know what to
think, Sir.”

“
I will understand if you
don’t want to work for me…”

“
I do want to work for you,
Sir. It’s just, I don’t lose control like that…I should have…” She
slowly looked at him.

He couldn’t help but smile at her. She
looked embarrassed, uncomfortable, and yet she still had the look
of a woman who just got fucked well. “There was nothing you could
have done to stop that, Nicole. You wanted me as much as I wanted
you. Your meek demeanor turns me on. I think you are drawn to my
strength. I want to explore this more, but I will not force you to
do anything. If you want to keep it professional I will respect
that. If you want to explore this further, I would like that.
Either way, your job doesn’t depend on you fucking me.”

She was taken aback by his bluntness.

“
I will hand Richard’s case
over to my partner. Consider this a gesture of respect for your
feelings, Nicole.” He grabbed a pen and a notecard. He wrote down
something then handed her the card.

She quickly read what he wrote. “The Legacy
tower…”

“
That is my address. If you
want to pursue this as a more intimate relationship then be at my
penthouse this Saturday. If you want to keep it strictly
professional then don’t show up at my apartment. Like I said either
way, this won’t affect your job at all.”

“
That sounds pretty black
and white to me, Sir.”

“
It was meant to be that
simple, Nicole. Now, go put on my shirt. I will explain to Emily
that I clumsily spilt my coffee all over your pretty blouse. What
we do in private is no one’s business.”

Nicole left his office and quickly went to
hers. She took off the tattered remains of her shirt and bra and
put his dress shirt on. It was too big on her, but his scent was
all over it. She looked at the address he had written on the
notecard. She was having trouble wrapping her mind around that she
just fuck her hot boss and he wanted more.

Chapter Five

Nicole woke up when she heard a man
laughing. She quickly climbed out of bed and put her robe on. It
was two o’clock in the morning. Who the hell could be here at this
hour? Yesterday was a little awkward at work with what happened
Monday, and the last thing she needed was somebody visiting Monica,
at least she hoped that was what was going on.

She glanced at the notecard sitting on top
of her dresser. She still hadn’t made up her mind if she was going
to Michael’s apartment or not. In fact, what happened Monday was
still surreal. Yet, her pussy moistened at the thought of how
Michael had fucked her.

She cleared her thoughts and went out of her
room. She was relieved to see Adam sitting on the sofa talking with
Monica. At least it wasn’t some burglar or something worse. As she
walked closer to them she noticed Adam was drunk.

“
Sorry, girl, he just broke
up with his girlfriend,” Monica said quietly.

“
There you are, little
Nicole.” Adam slowly stood.

She could smell the whiskey on his breath as
he wrapped his arm around her.

“
Shouldn’t your bandmates
be here?” Nicole asked.

“
Your face popped into my
mind, so here I am. Monica is cool with me stopping by so I figure
why the hell not. I can’t take my bandmates telling me how much
better off I am without that bitch Mindy in my life. Hell, it’s the
general consensus among all my peeps.”

“
Oh, I see now, you wanted
someone to hear how much she hurt you,” Nicole said as she helped
him to sit back down.

“
Exactly. You got anything
to drink in here?”

“
I think you have had
enough. I thought you were going to Kansas City and wasn’t coming
back until Saturday,” Monica said.

“
That was the plan, but the
last two gigs got canceled. So here I am. I showed up at Mindy’s
apartment to surprise her and well the surprise was on me. She
wasn’t alone. Shit, I don’t even know who that dude
was…”

“
I’m sorry to hear that,”
Nicole said.

“
I thought I treated her
right. I don’t know, maybe I’m just an asshole. She used to come
with me when I had to travel for gigs.”

“
How long were you
together?” Nicole asked.

“
About a year. She made me
believe that she was on my side, you know. I should have seen the
signs. But love is stupid.”

“
Amen to that,” Monica
said.

Adam started to laugh. His laughter was
infectious, which made Nicole and Monica smile. Nicole barely knew
him, yet she could tell he had a kind soul.

“
I loved her, damn it.”
Adam laid his head on the back of the sofa. “I don’t think she felt
the same way. If she did she would have never cheated on me. I
understood if she didn’t want to travel around. It’s my dream not
hers. I was so willing to compromise to come up with something that
worked for the both of us. But now that it’s over I see she didn’t
want to put work into our relationship. When the sailing got rough
she abandoned ship. I was too stupid to see it and got totally
blindsided by all of this. I should have just gone back to my
apartment and called her…”

“
No, you did the right
thing because now you know what kind of person she really is. And
you have the courage to really see it. I didn’t have that kind of
courage. I made every excuse for Nathan…” Nicole stopped talking.
Shit she wasn’t ready to discuss Nathan with anyone yet. She could
hear the pain in Adam’s voice and wanted to do something to ease
it.

“
I’m guessing Nathan is why
you moved to Chicago,” Monica said.

Nicole remained quiet.

“
That is obvious, Monica.
We won’t pry, little Nicole. But thank you for trying to make me
feel better. Whoa, the room is really spinning.”

Monica and Nicole laid Adam on the sofa.
Nicole went to her room and grabbed the comforter off of her bed
and went over and covered Adam up with it.

“
What a bitch this Mindy
is?” Monica said quietly. She gestured for Nicole to follow her to
her room. She quietly closed the door. “He just showed up. I
couldn’t turn him away.”

“
I’m glad you didn’t. He
seems like a sweet person.”

“
Oh he is. The funny thing
is he kept telling me he had a girlfriend, but I never saw her at
the bar. I just assumed she was made up to keep the girls from
bugging him while he worked.”

“
That is odd that she never
came to see him play.”

“
Which should have tipped
him off that she wasn’t invested in the relationship at all. Adam
is nuclear hot and I think she just wanted to have a hot boyfriend
to show off when it suited her. We will let him sleep off the
whiskey.”

“
He can stay here a couple
of days if it will make him feel better,” Nicole said.

“
Really? You are cool with
that. You barely know him.”

“
You do. And besides, he is
a sweet person who just had his heart handed back to him. We would
be assholes if we didn’t try to help him somehow.”

“
You are too nice, girl.
I’m glad you are though. I do have one question for you, and I
wouldn’t ask it but for safety reasons.”

“
What is it?”

“
Did Nathan do to you what
Mindy did to Adam or did he abuse you? I only ask because if Nathan
abused you he might try to hunt you down…”

“
I understand what you are
trying to get at.” Nicole sat on Monica’s bed. She didn’t want to
think about Nathan, she was trying everything to just forget. But
she didn’t want Monica to worry. Why they hell did she bring up
Nathan in the first place. Adam’s pain was palpable and he wanted
someone to understand his pain, she had to do something, say
something to help him. Nicole sighed…she wasn’t ready to discuss
this with anyone. “Nathan mentally abused me, he didn’t so much
physically abuse me. He made me believe I couldn’t exist without
him and treated me so horribly and yet I came up with excuse after
excuse for his behavior until I just couldn’t do it anymore. So no,
he won’t come hunting me down,” she said that so fast, she wasn’t
sure if Monica understood what she was saying. She just wanted to
give an overview of her life with Nathan, she couldn’t do any more
than that right now.

“
Whew, that’s good to
know.”

“
I’m going to try to get
some more sleep. I have to go to work.”

“
Did Michael drop that case
that you were so upset about? I didn’t have time to ask you
yesterday.”

“
He is giving it to his
partner to handle.”

“
That is sweet of him. But
you shouldn’t expect him to do that every time, nor should you get
so emotionally wrapped up with your cases you have to
research.”

“
I didn’t mean to do that.
I just felt so bad for Delta. I should have controlled my feelings
more.” Nicole got up and headed to the door.

“
You know, Nicole, if you
want to talk about Nathan I will listen.”

“
When I’m ready…but thank
you for your offer.” Nicole headed into the living room and saw
Adam sleeping on the sofa. Poor guy, hopefully next time he falls
in love, he falls for someone who deserves him. It was odd she
thought so highly of a man she barely knew, yet there was something
about him…she didn’t want to think any more about any of this. She
went back into her room and tried to get some sleep.

***

Nicole was glad she was just running checks
on a couple of Michael’s new clients. He had to know everything
about them in order to prepare the best case he could. More
importantly these two cases were armed robbery cases. No one was
killed or even hurt. There would be no emotional outburst from her.
Thank God.

Her pussy moistened when she heard the sound
of Michael’s footsteps passing by her door. She knew it was him by
the sound his dress shoes made as they moved across the wooden
floors. She was surprised by her body’s reaction to such a simple
sound.

She grabbed the first folder. This
particular case was easy to get all the details. This was the guy’s
first conviction and up to this point he hadn’t been in trouble
with the law. Why Michael needed her to research anything about
this case, she hadn’t a clue, but she wasn’t about to question him.
She left her office and headed to his.

She felt herself becoming more aroused the
closer she got to the door. She knocked once then entered. Michael
was sitting behind his desk talking to someone on the phone. He
gestured for her to sit down on the chair in front of his desk. She
glanced over at the part of the desk he fucked her so roughly on.
She quickly averted her gaze.

“
What is it, Nicole?”
Michael said.

“
I have everything you need
for the Maxwell Brown case.” She handed him the folder.

“
You look tired, did you
not sleep well.” He glanced over her notes.

“
Not really. Adam showed up
in the middle of the night all drunk. He just broke up with his
girlfriend and needed a sympathetic ear.”

“
Adam is back from Kansas
City?”

“
Yes, I guess a couple of
his gigs got cancelled.”

Michael sat back in his chair. He planned to
call Linda tonight and set up a façade to get her to go back to
Adam’s apartment.

Nicole looked at Michael he seemed lost in
his own little world.

“
Is something wrong,
Sir?”

“
No, I just have a ton on
my mind. Adam is better off without that bitch
girlfriend.”

“
You knew her?”

“
Briefly, and that was
enough for me. I don’t know what he saw in her.”

“
I felt so bad for
him.”

Michael looked at her. He could see her
empathy for Adam. Again, to have such feelings for someone she
barely knew, intrigued him.

“
Karma has a way of sorting
shit out,” Michael said. He was beyond annoyed that he was going to
have to postpone his hunt.

“
No, that is not always
true. Some people seem to get away with hurting anyone they want
and still they get everything they want.”

“
Do you have feelings for
Adam?”

“
What?!”