Chapter One
Mirrors didn’t lie. Looking at her own reflection, Olivia saw a woman with determination written all over her – determination and seduction. After three years of pining after her boss, David Slade, she now had the perfect opportunity to act on this attraction and with one more sip of chardonnay, she’d be ready.
The fact that David was her boss was going to be a non-issue after this weekend. Her employment with him was officially over. Well, she had agreed to stay on for an additional two weeks for the transition time for her replacement but it wasn’t the same thing as actually working for him. No, for the next couple of weeks she’d be more or less playing the part of a consultant; making her own hours and just making herself available to her replacement, Anna.
The Slade family had been in the business of finances since the Great Depression and had a great reputation for the way they treated their employees. Once a year they opened their home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to their executive staff for a weekend retreat. Though this wasn’t the first year that Olivia had been invited, it was the first year that she finally had the bravado to deal with her attraction to David once and for all. The beach was the perfect setting, Olivia thought, for her big plan of seduction.
Originally, she had no plans of attending this years retreat since she was leaving the firm, but David had insisted that she come. He had joked with her that this was his version of a going away party for her so that everyone could send her off properly. The man had a soft side that just made Olivia tingle. Actually, there was a lot about David that made Olivia tingle.
He was kind and generous and he was just perfect to look at; tall, lean muscles, sandy brown hair that looked sun kissed and a million dollar smile that when it was directed at her, had Olivia nearly purring with appreciation. While she had always hoped that David would be the one to make the first move, after three years Olivia came to the realization that as employer and employee, it was probably never going to happen.
Well, she hadn’t come to that realization on her own; her best friend Tina had sort of beat that point to death like the proverbial dead horse.
Olivia had balked at the idea of using this weekend to make her move on David, but Tina had been very persuasive in her argument.
“How long are you going to sit around and complain about not having any opportunity to be alone with David?” she had asked one night while the two of them had been sitting around watching re-runs of ‘Sex and the City’.
“Well, I don’t really get any time alone with him outside of the office,” Olivia admitted with a weary sigh. “We don’t exactly socialize with the same people.”
“Um, excuse me if I’m wrong, but won’t there be time to be alone with him while you’re at this beach retreat thing? I mean, talk about the perfect setting!”
In that moment, Olivia knew, with great certainty, that her friend was right. She could go on griping about the lack of opportunity but the truth of the matter was that a great opportunity had been dropped right into her lap. Could she really afford to let it slip away?
Now, standing in her dimly lit ocean front bedroom, Olivia knew it was now or never. She checked her reflection one last time and made a mental list of what she wanted to accomplish tonight. Seduction, sex and more sex.
She grinned at the thought.
Running her hands over her navy silk robe, she felt a bit naughty knowing that there was nothing on underneath it. The plan was to slip into David’s room, shimmy out of the robe an d in between the sheets before David knew what hit him. Of course, there was a good chance that David would be shocked by her actions and perhaps not as into the whole thing as Olivia was. She was counting on the pure fact that David was a man and most men wouldn’t turn
Mirrors didn’t lie. Looking at her own reflection, Olivia saw a woman with determination written all over her – determination and seduction. After three years of pining after her boss, David Slade, she now had the perfect opportunity to act on this attraction and with one more sip of chardonnay, she’d be ready.
The fact that David was her boss was going to be a non-issue after this weekend. Her employment with him was officially over. Well, she had agreed to stay on for an additional two weeks for the transition time for her replacement but it wasn’t the same thing as actually working for him. No, for the next couple of weeks she’d be more or less playing the part of a consultant; making her own hours and just making herself available to her replacement, Anna.
The Slade family had been in the business of finances since the Great Depression and had a great reputation for the way they treated their employees. Once a year they opened their home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to their executive staff for a weekend retreat. Though this wasn’t the first year that Olivia had been invited, it was the first year that she finally had the bravado to deal with her attraction to David once and for all. The beach was the perfect setting, Olivia thought, for her big plan of seduction.
Originally, she had no plans of attending this years retreat since she was leaving the firm, but David had insisted that she come. He had joked with her that this was his version of a going away party for her so that everyone could send her off properly. The man had a soft side that just made Olivia tingle. Actually, there was a lot about David that made Olivia tingle.
He was kind and generous and he was just perfect to look at; tall, lean muscles, sandy brown hair that looked sun kissed and a million dollar smile that when it was directed at her, had Olivia nearly purring with appreciation. While she had always hoped that David would be the one to make the first move, after three years Olivia came to the realization that as employer and employee, it was probably never going to happen.
Well, she hadn’t come to that realization on her own; her best friend Tina had sort of beat that point to death like the proverbial dead horse.
Olivia had balked at the idea of using this weekend to make her move on David, but Tina had been very persuasive in her argument.
“How long are you going to sit around and complain about not having any opportunity to be alone with David?” she had asked one night while the two of them had been sitting around watching re-runs of ‘Sex and the City’.
“Well, I don’t really get any time alone with him outside of the office,” Olivia admitted with a weary sigh. “We don’t exactly socialize with the same people.”
“Um, excuse me if I’m wrong, but won’t there be time to be alone with him while you’re at this beach retreat thing? I mean, talk about the perfect setting!”
In that moment, Olivia knew, with great certainty, that her friend was right. She could go on griping about the lack of opportunity but the truth of the matter was that a great opportunity had been dropped right into her lap. Could she really afford to let it slip away?
Now, standing in her dimly lit ocean front bedroom, Olivia knew it was now or never. She checked her reflection one last time and made a mental list of what she wanted to accomplish tonight. Seduction, sex and more sex.
She grinned at the thought.
Running her hands over her navy silk robe, she felt a bit naughty knowing that there was nothing on underneath it. The plan was to slip into David’s room, shimmy out of the robe an d in between the sheets before David knew what hit him. Of course, there was a good chance that David would be shocked by her actions and perhaps not as into the whole thing as Olivia was. She was counting on the pure fact that David was a man and most men wouldn’t turn
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