Page 65 of Boss from Hell
I was looking forward to the hour or so that Max and I would be alone in the car. There was something romantic and thrilling about being on a road trip with someone you fancied.
A whole hour of no interruptions, just me and Max.
I knew I was making the weekend out to be more than it was, and Max would be horrified if he knew, but I couldn’t help the excitement building up over the trip.
True, I was nervous about sleeping in his parents’ house, but Max had assured me his parents would have no problem with him bringing someone. Besides, there would be other guests staying overnight too. It didn’t make me feel any better, but it did make me wonder how many women he had taken home for a weekend. I quickly stopped that thought, knowing I was only inflicting unnecessary pain on myself.
Rather than have Max come up, I made my way downstairs to wait for him a few minutes before we agreed to meet. I smiled when I spotted his car turning the corner. I loved that Max was a stickler for time, something we had in common.
He brought the car to a stop and slid out. He looked casually sexy in a white button-down shirt and chino pants. Like he’d stepped out of a magazine page.
“Nice outfit,” he complimented, eyeing me up and down.
“This old thing,” I said laughing and gesturing at the summer dress I had once, in the days before my mom got into financial troubles, spent nearly a quarter of my salary on. It was playfulwith a bow at the chest and it came up to my knees, showing off my legs.
Max drew me into his arms and ran hot kisses along my neck that made tingles run up my spine.
“You’re a tease, Mr. Frost,” I complained when he withdrew.
“That makes two of us,” he said with a chuckle, as he took my bag and tossed it in the back seat. “Don’t think I’ve forgotten that day when you came dressed to kill and told me, I could look but not touch.”
“As if that ever stopped you,” I shot back with a laugh and entered the car.
Sitting on his desk and opening my legs wide to show him my naked sex had been the most daring thing I’d ever done in my life, but it had been completely worth it.
Max entered the car, his scent dancing in the air. I sneaked a glance at him and met his gaze, which sent an electric current sizzling through me.
“Nothing stops me when I want something.” Then he frowned suddenly and all the good feelings inside me evaporated.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“Just someone walking over my grave,” he said and smiled, but this time his smile didn’t reach his eyes.
We drove in silence for a while.
“I’ve been thinking maybe I should sleep in a hotel?” I blurted out.
Max glanced at me. “Why?”
“I think your mother would appreciate it more.”
He shook his head cynically. “Then you don’t know my mother. She’d be horrified. How dare you behave as if her home is not good enough for you?”
“Oh, I never thought about it like that.”
“Like I said, leave my mother to me. Besides, the whole point of taking you with me is to have you in my bed.”
“Max,” I exclaimed, shocked. “You’re not planning on sharing a room with me in your parents’ house?”
He laughed. “What a little Victorian maiden you turned out to be! If we didn’t share a bedroom, I’d have to creep into your room in the dead of the night when everyone else had retired.”
I laughed awkwardly. My mother wouldn’t know where to look if I wanted to bring a man home to sleep for the night.
“Right. Us sharing a room would be normal at your home?”
“Us not sharing a room would be abnormal.”
“It’ll be nice to sleep holding you,” I said weakly.