Chapter 5 - Price of Seduction
Once I arrived by the door, I took a deep breath and then another before quietly knocking.
“Maddox?” I heard him say, “If that’s you then come in. Anyone else, I do not want the disturbance.” Well, that made me feel relished.
I opened the door and stepped into his office. The feeling of relish completely disappeared as I understood why he didn’t want to be disturbed. His lips just left Chastity’s as I walked into the room, I was so startled that I almost yelped.
“Sir?” I called.
“Yes, is that the suit?” he asked, with his arms stretched.
“Yes, it is .” I tried to ignore the teasing look Chastity gave me as she rubbed her hands all over Leandro’s chest.
“Can you stop for a second?” I heard him whisper to her – I have very sensitive ears.
She slowly took her hand away and he got up and approached to take the suit from me.
My hand shook as he slowly placed his hand on the piece of clothing and took it away from my grasp, I felt my heart beat faster and louder as he inspected it.
“Mhm, nice lines,” he said, looking at me momentarily.
I smiled nervously in response.
“You didn’t take this to Jeffery’s did you?” he asked.
“This is done by someone else.”
“Uhm. . . excuse me, sir?” I pretended to not have heard him.
“You didn’t hear me?” he asked, with an eyebrow raised.
“Not exactly,” I replied with a loud gulp.
“You didn’t take this to Jeffery’s did you? This isn’t their work.”
“I-“
“Don’t lie to me, Maddox.” He turned around and slowly walked back to his seat,
“Yes,” I said, squeezing my left palm with the other as I shook with nervousity. “It wasn’t done by him.”
“Why not?” he asked.
“When I returned home, I was very tired and I decided to have a nap,’ I replied, “And when I woke up it was really late and Jeffery’s were already closed.”
“And so you decided the best thing to do was to take the suit to a f*****g cheap dry cleaners and get it done, huh?” He had a scary scowl on his face that made me all the more nervous and terrified. “That was the plan, right?”
“I assumed it was better than handing you the suit when it wasn’t dry cleaned at all,” I replied, “I’m really sorry, sir.”
“I asked you to take it to Jeffery’s, if that wasn’t arrangeable then you should have brought it back. Then I’ll decide the next course of action.”
“I am so sorry, sir,” I pleaded, “I’ll have that in mind in case of next time.” I turned around to leave, my legs were shaking, I needed to get out and catch my breath.
“Next time?”
My head spun around to Chastity's direction just in time to see her scoff. “What makes you think there’s going to be a next time?”
Leandro gave her an inquisitive look. “What the f**k are you talking about?” he asked her.
“Well, you are going to fire her, right?” she asked him.
“Fire her? Babe, I just told you yesterday that she is very resourceful,” he replied. “I’m not going to fire her over a simple mishappening.”
“Are you serious?” she chewed loudlier on the gum she had in her mouth. “She literally ruined your suit and now it has this cheap perfume smell all over it, how could you not fire her?”
Leandro was quiet as he glared indignantly at her. The entire office was painstakingly quiet except for Chastity’s loud chewing and the giant wall clock's ticking.
“Leave,” I heard Leandro say.
“What?” Chastity yelled. I didn’t blame her, I too was surprised.
“I said you should leave, now.”
“Well, are you not coming with?” she asked him, rolling her eyes.
“Go to the car and wait for me,” he replied, “I’ll be with you in a second.”
Her loud chewing quietened as she began to reason with him. “Alright then,” she said as she grabbed her bag and got up from her seat. “I’ll see you at the car.”
She flounced out of the office, not forgetting to disrespectfully eye me as she walked past. I tried maintaining my posture as she walked away, I was successful.
“She’s out of line but she’s not wrong,” Leandro said as soon as the door closed. “It would be justifiable if I was to fire you right now.”
“Please, sir, I am so sorry,” I pleaded with my hands clasped together, “It was an honest mistake and it will never, ever happen again.” He seemed to be studying me as he sat there, looking at me for what felt like minutes, he took his hand off his chin and sighed.
“Take a seat, Maddox.”
I obliged, slowly sitting down on the guest chair directly opposite him.
“I know your record here in the headquarters and it's very good, it's impressive and all but as my secretary I will be counting on you to execute some of these chores and errands I give you to perfection, I don't know if you understand.”
“I do, sir,” I replied, “A hundred per cent,”
“That been said, I still need you to convince me as to why you should keep this job, I need you to show me. . .”
Was this it? Was he calling me in? Was this my chance to show him what I was capable of doing. To him. . . for him.
“I would do anything, sir,” I said softly, locking my eyes with his to make sure he understood the context I was implying.
“Anything?” he asked, “What do you mean?”
I unzipped my shirt and my breasts were more exposed than they had ever been, my white bra glistering inside my top.
“Like I said, sir. . . anything.” I licked on my lips sensually and perked my eyebrows while I maintained eye contact with him. He didn't say anything, he just kept looking back at me as I spoke.
“You would let me touch you?” his lips finally moved. My heart rang inside of me as the question swam into my ears.
I would do anything to make you touch me, Leandro.
“Yes, I will,” I replied, “I will let you do anything to me.” I used my fingers to softly caress his hand that was on the table, he looked down at it and back up at me and then I knew that he wanted it - almost as much as I did. Leandro wanted it.
“Why?” he asked me.
“Because I've always wanted you to,” I replied, “I've dreamt about it.” I sneaked my fingers into his sleeve and caressed his strong hand. “I want you. . . I want you to do anything and everything to me.”
He opened his mouth to speak but then halted halfway and I watched his lips slowly join back together, I wanted to kiss them so much. I wanted his lips so bad that my heart beat faster and faster as I thought of it, they were reddish and tempting like ripe strawberries in the early harvest. They made my mouth water as they called to me - his red sparkly lips and I had to answer. Your lips Leandro, they were perfect and that was why I sprung up to kiss them, to kiss him.
But he pulled away at the last second and I was left there, one knee on his desk and my leg on top of my chair. I felt a little ashamed or maybe more than a little.
“Get down,” he told me, “And leave.”
I quickly zipped up my top, realising I had just made the biggest mistake of my life. “I am so so sorry sir.”
“Do not apologize,” he ordered, “Just leave and go back to your office.”
“Yes sir," I said as I adjusted my skirt. “I'm really sorry again sir, oh s**t. . . I didn't mean to apologize, I'm sorry. f**k!”
“Maddox!” he yelled.
“Yes sir?”
“Get the f**k out!”
“Yes sir!” I hurried out of the office and as I left, I silently shut his door to prevent it from slamming and him getting madder than he already was.
Fuck, f**k, f**k! I thought. What the f**k just happened?
For some reason, I felt like crying. I didn't know why exactly, I was more afraid than I was sad but it didn't stop the tears from congesting right under my eyes.