"Someone had a rough night." Danny's voice wakes me from the nap that I was about to take in the office cafeteria.
Jennifer, James and I had gone to bed at 3 o'clock last night. We watched movies, talked and ate until we couldn't anymore.
I just show Danny a half-smile before getting up to make another coffee.
"Did you get the message about the meeting this morning?" Danny ask me.
"I did," I reply.
"What do you think it's about?"
"Don't know," I reply, not really interested.
There's silence for a while and I look up to find her staring at me with a thoughtful expression on her face.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing. Let's go to the conference room." She says before getting up.
"But I don't want to," I say before taking my seat again. "The two cup's of coffee that I've consumed already isn't helping yet. So I'm going to drink another one first."
"You can bring your coffee along, Nat." She says with a shake of her head.
"Morning ladies." Someone suddenly says behind me. And my heart instantly goes into overdrive.
I hear Danny greeting him back but I don't turn his way. I'm too scared he'll notice the excitement that suddenly overcomes me.
"She has a bad headache." Danny tries to explain my rudeness.
"Than she should go home." I hear the irritation in his voice now.
"Uhm... Yeah maybe..." Danny sounds nervous.
"You all should head to the conference room on the fifth floor please." He addresses the whole room then.
When everyone else gets up, I try to do the same. The hand that stops me sends shivers all over my body and I have no choice but to go sit down again.
When the room is finally clear he takes a seat on the table in front of me.
"Are you hiding from me?" He asks.
I finally look up into his eyes and I almost feel winded with the intense look in it.
It takes I while before I can answer him and I try my best not to let him hear the shake in my voice. "I'm not hiding from you, sir," I say.
"I couldn't stop thinking about you while I was away." He suddenly changes direction.
I first have to take a breath before I can answer him. "Don't you think this is inappropriate, Mr. Ames? You are my boss."
"We've established that before, Miss Callan, but that didn't stop this attraction for each other, did it?"
"We can ignore it. I don't want to be involved in...whatever this will be." I say.
At first, he just stares at me.
"You've said something like that before." He says quietly.
Then he stands up and takes my hands before pulling me up. He brings me close enough so that our bodies almost touch. My body betrays me and the next thing I know I can feel his lean muscular body against mine. My bodies betrayal gives him the invitation he needs and he cup's my face with his hands and brings our lips together.
He gently moves his soft lips over mine and I shiver goes through my body again. Before he can stop the kiss again I bring my hands around his neck and try to pull him even closer to me.
But he suddenly pulls away again.
"I would love to keep on doing this, but I have to go to that meeting." He says after catching his breath.
His deep blue eyes search mine for a moment. And it takes everything in me to hide the disappointment that I'm feeling.
"We can talk later. Or if you prefer, do more kissing." Then he takes my hands, unwraps it from his neck, and takes a step away.
"I have to go announce that I will be taking over as CEO of this company, starting Monday."
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