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in heady waves, and she reached across the cartons and took his hand.
    “Do you really want to know more about me?” she asked.
    As soon as he nodded, Kathleen moved closer to his side and loosened her braid. Her dark hair cascaded over her shoulders, and he pressed his fingers into her locks as he rolled her face around his hands.
    “I already know that you’re pretty,” he said. She tried to look away, Adam held her face fast and kept her gaze focused on him.
    “Thought you didn’t do flattery,” she reminded him.
    “Only when it’s warranted,” he said. “And you’ve more than earned it.”
    Kathleen’s lips parted to accept his kiss when he simply rested his mouth to her cheek and snuggled closer to her shoulder.
    “But what about before?” he asked. “Before you made your way to my desk.”
    “Adam, you summoned me,” she reminded him. “Or are we going to rewrite history?”
    He laughed and kept her close, pulling her back to the rug and the warmth of the roaring flames. As Kathleen fell to his side, she focused on his smile and waited for his words.
    “Point taken,” he said. “So who is Kate Bedford?”
    “Didn’t you do you research before---?”
    “Just don’t get cute,” he said. “Just tell me the truth.”
    Feeling as if she was beaten and wanting to submit to his demands, Kathleen turned her head into the plush rug and let her gaze move towards the window.
    “I didn’t grow up like you,” she started. “Not like dirt poor or anything. But scraping by.”
    “You don’t make it sound so bad,” Adam said.
    “It really wasn’t. But I wanted something more. Do you how many essays I had to write to cobble the scholarship money for school?”
    “I never would have guessed,” he said.
    “So you’re not impressed by my work on the brief?” she asked.
    “Of course I am. It’s just that your fingers are still so soft, all of you is soft, and I like it.”
    Adam kissed her hand, and she watched what looked like admiration flash across his eyes as he relinquished her hands and laid his head to her shoulder.
    “Looks like you made a go of it,” he said. “You’ve come this far.”
    “Is it… is it wrong that I want more?”
    “No,” he said. “I’m pretty sure we’re on the same page.”
    Kissing her again, Adam started to ease her blouse from her arms, the shared taste of ginger on their breath when Kathleen drew back.
    “Is this… isn’t this why the others were shown the door?” she asked. “Once you got what you want, you had to make them scarce?”
    “Is that what you really think, Kate?”
    Having to nod in the wake of all she had heard, Kathleen turned away  and hoped that she could make her way back to her desk when he drew her close.
    “That’s not the whole story,” he said. “Not by a million miles.
    “Then what is---?”
    “Stop talking,” he pleaded. “Just come closer.”
    Adam pulled her deeper into his arms, his lips bathing her cheeks before her stripped the blouse from her body. He seemed to hesitate as he hovered over her, and Kathleen traced the line of his mouth and longed for him to mirror her smile.
    “I’m right here, Mr. Torrance,” she said. “Now what?”
    “Now…”
    He raised her hands to his shirt sleeves and bowed his head as he burrowed into her ample round breasts.
    “Take off my clothes,” he muttered. “I need… I need you to touch me, Kate.”
    “I think I can manage that,” Kathleen said. “Even if it’s not on my resume.”
    She unveiled his chest and grazed her nails down his torso. Her fingers came to rest against his belt, and she started to unspool the leather from the loops when her touch came to a sudden stop.
    “You’re not going to cast me off when this is said and done, right?” she asked.
    “I really don’t want to, Kate.”
    “And I’m going to hold you to that.”
    Straining forward to meet his mouth, Kathleen kissed him hard and pushed her hand down his pants. The force of his hardness