finished at eight.
It was a quarter after; she was late.
I flicked through the channels on the radio but I didn’t hear anything.
I was too fucking nervous.
Jesus, I hadn’t been nervous about anything since I was a kid.
What was Lee Bennett doing to me?
We had to talk and I wasn’t looking forward to it, hell I was dreading it.
What the fuck was I supposed to say?
‘Hey Lee thanks for letting me suck you sweet titties, but I’m not interested in more?’
What a crock.
Of course I was interested in more.
I was interested in every single detail of her life.
That’s why I had spent the last three hours in my office, snooping around in her personal life.
I told myself it was for employer purposes, but that was a bullshit lie.
I didn’t need the piece of paper from her file in my hands telling me every detail about her, that information was already burnt into my memory.
I wasn’t sure what I was looking for when I checked up on her, but I was relieved to discover she had no criminal record, no record of drug or alcohol abuse.
She didn’t smoke and had ticked single on her file info.
I’d made a few calls to her highschool in Montgomery, and discovered that Lee had perfect school attendance for the first three and half years of highschool, until she dropped out back in April, two months before senior graduation.
What confused me was why Lee would drop out with two months to go, when she had a 4.0 GPA.
I was so engrossed in my findings that I almost didn’t notice her coming out of the building.
Almost.
She looked up at my truck for a moment, before slowly walked towards me.
Shoving the paper into the dashboard, I pressed on a button and the window rolled down.
She looked straight in the window at me and smiled shyly.
This was going to sting like a bitch.
“Get in. We have to talk.”
LEE
My heart flipped inside my chest when I saw Kyle parked outside when I came out of work.
I was prepared for my usual walk home.
“Get in. We need to talk,” he said shortly.
The smile I was wearing evaporated.
My heart stopped flipping, and sank in my stomach.
This was bad.
I opened the passenger door and climbed in…well attempted to climb in.
After the third attempt at trying to hoist myself up, Kyle came around and lifted me in.
My body trembled when he touched my hips.
I couldn’t tie the complicated seat belt either, so he strapped me in.
“How was your day?” I asked when the silence in the car became unbearable.
Kyle shifted in his seat, and turned down the volume on the radio.
I hadn’t realized it was on.
He had rolled his sleeves up to his elbows, and I was having a hard time concentrating on anything other than the light dusting of hair on his muscled forearms, his long fingers…
“It was…hard,” he stopped and cleared his throat.
“Lee, we need to talk.”
I agreed with that.
I nodded for him to continue. He sighed but said nothing.
I turned to look at him, and gasped when I saw the turmoil in his eyes.
He looked like he was at war with himself.
After what felt like a year instead of seconds, he spoke.
“What happened between us in my office cannot happen again.”
I sank into my seat.
He regretted it, he regretted me.
He took my silence as a means to continue torturing me.
“I shouldn’t have touched you… I can’t let that happen again Lee. Do you understand why?”
I nodded.
No, I didn’t understand, but I didn’t want to hear all of the reasons he didn’t want me.
“I’m not good for you Lee. I can’t give you more. And you’re the type of girl who deserves more. We live in the same house, and now you’re working for me. It can’t happen again. I’m sorry if I led you on, or made you think this was more than it is.”
I couldn’t listen anymore.
“It’s okay Kyle, I understand,” I whispered, desperate for this car ride to be over, so I could crawl into my bed and die of the humiliation.
“I’m sorry
It was a quarter after; she was late.
I flicked through the channels on the radio but I didn’t hear anything.
I was too fucking nervous.
Jesus, I hadn’t been nervous about anything since I was a kid.
What was Lee Bennett doing to me?
We had to talk and I wasn’t looking forward to it, hell I was dreading it.
What the fuck was I supposed to say?
‘Hey Lee thanks for letting me suck you sweet titties, but I’m not interested in more?’
What a crock.
Of course I was interested in more.
I was interested in every single detail of her life.
That’s why I had spent the last three hours in my office, snooping around in her personal life.
I told myself it was for employer purposes, but that was a bullshit lie.
I didn’t need the piece of paper from her file in my hands telling me every detail about her, that information was already burnt into my memory.
I wasn’t sure what I was looking for when I checked up on her, but I was relieved to discover she had no criminal record, no record of drug or alcohol abuse.
She didn’t smoke and had ticked single on her file info.
I’d made a few calls to her highschool in Montgomery, and discovered that Lee had perfect school attendance for the first three and half years of highschool, until she dropped out back in April, two months before senior graduation.
What confused me was why Lee would drop out with two months to go, when she had a 4.0 GPA.
I was so engrossed in my findings that I almost didn’t notice her coming out of the building.
Almost.
She looked up at my truck for a moment, before slowly walked towards me.
Shoving the paper into the dashboard, I pressed on a button and the window rolled down.
She looked straight in the window at me and smiled shyly.
This was going to sting like a bitch.
“Get in. We have to talk.”
LEE
My heart flipped inside my chest when I saw Kyle parked outside when I came out of work.
I was prepared for my usual walk home.
“Get in. We need to talk,” he said shortly.
The smile I was wearing evaporated.
My heart stopped flipping, and sank in my stomach.
This was bad.
I opened the passenger door and climbed in…well attempted to climb in.
After the third attempt at trying to hoist myself up, Kyle came around and lifted me in.
My body trembled when he touched my hips.
I couldn’t tie the complicated seat belt either, so he strapped me in.
“How was your day?” I asked when the silence in the car became unbearable.
Kyle shifted in his seat, and turned down the volume on the radio.
I hadn’t realized it was on.
He had rolled his sleeves up to his elbows, and I was having a hard time concentrating on anything other than the light dusting of hair on his muscled forearms, his long fingers…
“It was…hard,” he stopped and cleared his throat.
“Lee, we need to talk.”
I agreed with that.
I nodded for him to continue. He sighed but said nothing.
I turned to look at him, and gasped when I saw the turmoil in his eyes.
He looked like he was at war with himself.
After what felt like a year instead of seconds, he spoke.
“What happened between us in my office cannot happen again.”
I sank into my seat.
He regretted it, he regretted me.
He took my silence as a means to continue torturing me.
“I shouldn’t have touched you… I can’t let that happen again Lee. Do you understand why?”
I nodded.
No, I didn’t understand, but I didn’t want to hear all of the reasons he didn’t want me.
“I’m not good for you Lee. I can’t give you more. And you’re the type of girl who deserves more. We live in the same house, and now you’re working for me. It can’t happen again. I’m sorry if I led you on, or made you think this was more than it is.”
I couldn’t listen anymore.
“It’s okay Kyle, I understand,” I whispered, desperate for this car ride to be over, so I could crawl into my bed and die of the humiliation.
“I’m sorry
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