Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
About The Author
PASSION
(Lost Love Series)
Copyright
Passion (Lost Love Series)
Written, Compiled & Edited by: Danielle Lewis
Copyright © 2013 by Danielle Lewis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Other titles by Danielle Lewis (Click title to start reading)
The Cop (Lost Love Series) (Erotic Romance)
Requited (Lost Love Series) (Erotic Romance)
A Woman with a Secret (Looking Behind: Part 1) (Sizzling Erotic Thriller)
What Lies Behind the Smile (Looking Behind: Part 2) (Sizzling Erotic Thriller)
Learning of Each Other (Looking Behind: Part 3) (Sizzling Erotic Thriller)
The Hunt (Looking Behind: Part 4) (Sizzling Erotic Thriller)
Chapter 1
“That job was supposed to be mine, Saul!” Cara was fuming. “I’ve been working my ass off for months! No one knows the project better than I do!”
“I understand that, Cara,” Saul sighed. He was older man, just a few years away from his retirement. “Your work is valued, but management decided to go a different route. They wanted someone with - ”
“A dick?” interrupted Cara. “That’s what this is about, right? This company has always been a boys club, and management is too scared to hire a woman.”
“New blood,” continued Saul, ignoring her interruption. “Management thinks things around here are getting a bit stale.”
“Bull shit,” snapped Cara. “The projects coming from my team have been more innovate and successful than anything else in the department – hell they’re the best in the company!”
“Look, Cara, just meet the guy, all right?” said Saul, exasperated. “You might learn something from him.”
“I don’t need to meet the guy!” she yelled. “I know exactly who he will be. Some rich white boy who has had everything handed to him for his entire life. He’ll be arrogant, entitled, selfish, useless, unintelligent -”
“You forgot mind-blowingly attractive,” interjected a voice from behind her. She whirled around to face the speaker and suddenly found herself speechless. He was tall. His hair was the same sandy blonde, but his skin was tanner than the last time she saw him. If they were on another coast, and he lost the his perfect Armani suit, he could be mistaken for a surfer.
“Lee!” Saul happily reached out a hand to shake the newcomer’s. “So glad you could join us. I was just telling Cara about how excited we are that you have joined the team.”
“I could hear,” Lee told him as he shook Saul’s hand. “In fact, I am fairly certain the entire building could hear how excited Cara is.”
“Of course,” Cara laughed mirthlessly. Her voice had finally returned. “Of course they hired you.”
“You two know each other?” asked Saul. Luckily he was looking at Lee, so he didn’t see how Cara rolled her eyes. Stupid questions tended to annoy her.
“We went to school together,” Lee explained. “Cara was always one step behind me in every class.”
“Well you got that half right – which is about as much as anyone should expect,” Cara countered. “I was always top of the class. You were always behind.”
“Oh, you know what, you’re right. I got mixed up. In college you were always ahead. It’s in the real world that you are always a step behind.” He raised his eyebrows at her in a smug challenge. She wanted to punch him in the face.
“You are so full of -”
“Well, I can see having both of you in the office isn’t going to be boring!” commented Saul with a broad smile. Damn him – the son of a bitch actually seemed pleased. “I am sure now that you are working together you two will make a great team!”
“My thoughts exactly,” agreed Lee. Cara wanted to smack that stupid smug little grin right off his face. This job was supposed to be hers!
“Well I am going to head out,” Saul yawned. “It’s been a long day. Cara, may I walk you to your car?” He offered her his arm, but she shook her head. Cara had absolutely no intention of leaving.
“I am going to stick around here for a bit. I want to put the finishing touches on the Apollo project,” she informed him.
“I’ll stay too,” Lee declared, just as Cara had expected. “I want to get settled in, so I am ready to start on Monday.”
“Suit yourselves. Have a good weekend.” Saul let the door swing shut behind him.
“I cannot believe you stole my job!” Cara snapped turning on Lee. He refused to be rattled.
“If you were really the best person for it, I am sure they would have hired you,” he said with a shrug.
“That’s complete shit and you know it!” Angrily, she took a step toward him. “You and I both know that those idiots only hired you because they are too afraid to let a woman head a department.”
“Or maybe you just weren’t good enough,” suggested Lee a bit of heat coming into his voice as he stepped toward her. “Somewhere along the way, you are going to have to accept the fact that maybe the whole world isn’t sexist. Maybe I am actually just the better candidate.”
“Not a chance!” Cara didn’t give Lee any more time to argue. Instead she reached out, grabbed his infuriatingly handsome face and pulled it towards hers. God it felt good to kiss him again. He reacted immediately, wrapping his arms around her body and pressing her against him. She could feel his hard muscles pressing against her soft curves through the layers of clothing between them. Too many layers. Something needed to be done about that.
As Lee thrust his tongue into her mouth, she quickly reached down and unzipped his pants. He retaliated by picking her up and pushing her onto her desk. One kiss and she could already feel heat coursing through her, rushing down to make her damp. She heard a few of her pictures and her little jar of pencils fall to the floor. It would be a pain in the ass to pick it all up later, but for right now, she didn’t give a damn.
He pushed her skirt up as she buried her fingers in his sandy blonde hair. When she first saw him, she had thought it looked better short, but now she was finding that she liked that Lee had two or three inches she could pull on.
His hand slipped between them and pushed aside her thong. Neither of them felt like wasting the time it would take to actually get undressed. Quickly without any sort of foreplay, he shoved his rock-hard dick into her pussy. She gasped as she felt him stretching her, filling her. With that one swift stroke, he penetrated her completely. She wrapped her legs around him, pushing him deeper.
Once he was entirely inside of her, Lee paused.
“Miss me?” he asked, looking her straight in the eye. She was not at all surprised to see a familiar mischievous gleam there, nor the small smile pulling at the corners of his mouth.
“Fuck you,” she replied, smiling back at him. He slid almost completely out of her body and then rammed back into her.
“What’s that?” he asked. Th
e grin was definitely there now.
“Fuck you,” she repeated breathlessly. Sex with Lee was always like this – fast and hard. She clung to him, panting as he fucked her mercilessly. She could feel his pace increase and knew he was getting closer.
Lee reached a hand between them and began toying with her clit as he continued slamming in and out of her body. He had already pushed her near the edge, but that extra touch was enough to make her climax.
“God damn it, Lee!” she cried as she felt the world shatter around her. She loved this feeling. It was like she was completely relaxed and yet completely awake all at the same time. As she let the waves of her orgasm wash over her, she felt him find his release deep within her.
Chapter 2
“Why are you here, anyway?” Cara asked, straightening her clothes. “I thought you had decided to stay in the West Coast.
“I got bored,” he shrugged as he buckled his belt.
“And you just happened to end up with my company, in my department, doing the job I should I have gotten?”
“Wow, full of it much?” he laughed.
“Admit it – it would be a hell of a coincidence,” she said, refusing to be dissuaded. She began picking up the pictures that had fallen to the floor from her desk. Lee bent to help, collecting the fallen pens and replacing them in their holder.
“Not really,” he said. “We have similar skillsets, and the industry is not that large. We were bound to bump into each other again sooner or later.”
“I didn’t think so,” she said frankly. “When you left for California, I didn’t think I would ever see you again.”
“And yet here I am. It’s a crazy world.” His deep green eyes were infuriatingly unreadable.
“Not that crazy,” she disagreed, shaking her head. “You knew you were taking my job. You think you’ve got something to prove. You’re still pissed because I beat you out for student marshal.”
“Trust me – I’m glad I’m not the one who peaked in college,” he said, raising an amused eyebrow. “That would just be pathetic.”
“Really?” she said, refusing to let him goad her. Now that they’d fucked in her office, all the tension she had felt was gone – at least for the moment. She was the calm one now. Besides, she still held the trump card. He might think he was fooling her with his pretense of a random coincidence, but she knew better. She knew him better than anyone else, and she knew exactly which button to push. “You don’t care at all anymore about that B you got in… what was it again? Something pathetic to fail at – wasn’t it Ballroom Dance?” That did it.
“It was a B+!” he snapped. “And no I don’t care!” It was too late. She could read the anger and embarrassment in his face plain as day. All these years, and he was still pissed that his impeccable GPA had been snatched away from him at the last moment. He did still think he had something to prove. That’s why he came here. Even after all these years, he still hated the thought that she had beaten him with her perfect 4.0 GPA.
“That’s what I thought,” she said, laughing lightly. “Goodnight, Lee. I’ll see you on Monday.”
Chapter 3
Lee was left alone in Cara’s office feeling like the idiot she clearly thought he was. It was stupid of him to get angry about that B+, especially after all this time. The truth of the matter is that Lee held himself to a very high standard. He came from a successful family, and he had always felt pressure to prove he deserved to be part of it. Getting a B+ frustrated him – Cara had that part right at least.
The part she missed was that he didn’t resent her for becoming student marshal. She had earned it. He didn’t loathe her for beating him – he respected her. Although he wasn’t ready to explain it to her, she was also right in assuming that she was why he came back. Cara was the only reason he had returned to the East Coast.
When they were in school together, she always pushed him to excel. He never missed a class because if he did, she might get ahead. He researched each of his papers more deeply, hoping to find a perfect source that would make them just that little bit better than hers. He always studied that extra hour, trying to get a better score than she did. Lee was smart, and he worked hard. He would always have done well, but what he knew deep down was that Cara’s presence made him better. Being around her made him exceptional.
Now he was back on the East Coast to get that back. His work after graduation was not his best. It was good, but he knew that if he stayed near Cara, he could make something brilliant. She would challenge him and fuel his creativity. The sex wasn’t bad either.
He had forgotten how much he loved the feel of her soft, yielding flesh against his. In California, everyone was trying to be a star. It was one of the many downsides of living in the city of angels. With most of the people he met when he lived out there, their idea of the perfect body type was whatever pleased the ad agencies. The problem was that what pleased the agencies did not interest him in the slightest. All of the women were stick thin and bony. Actually, they were built quite a bit like eight year old boys, and he hated it.
Lee liked to sleep with women. A bony little creature just could not satisfy him. Lee just wanted so much more. Size zero models were a dime a dozen. Instead, he preferred genuine classical beauty. He liked full curves and soft flesh. He liked having something to hold on to.
He liked Cara. She had never gone for the whole crazy dieting thing, or ever seemed to care whether or not her tummy was flat. She was shaped just like a woman should be with generous curves like in a Ruben painting. God, she was gorgeous!
All these years and he had not been able to get her out of his head. With tits he dreamed about burying his face in and a brain to match his own, she was the woman that he compared every girl he met to. Not a single one of them stood a chance. In time he realized that the reason no other woman appealed to him was that he had fallen in love with Cara when they were in college. He just hadn’t figured it out until later.
Finally, he decided that enough was enough. He needed Cara in his life. She inspired him to do his best work and he lusted after her more than any other woman in the world. He was going to show Cara that she needed him just as much as he needed her. Soon she was going to be as completely in love with him as he was with her.
By the time he was done, Cara would be his.
Chapter 4
Working with Lee over the last few days had been… interesting to say the least. There were moments when Cara was absolutely sure she wanted to kill him. There were also moments when she could not help but marvel at how clever he was. Some of the ideas he had for their projects were genius. The truth was, whether or not she like to admit it, they were both good enough for the job he got.
It pissed her off a lot. She was not used to having real competition. As much as it pissed her off, it also got her blood going. With Lee around, she felt so much more alive. It was not just the sex – she loved the way he challenged her to work harder and more creatively. Part of her hated him for it, but she knew deep down that she was better with him around.
It also made her really horny.
That was why at nearly midnight, she was knocking on the door to his apartment. Cara had seen him leave work shortly before she did, so she was fairly certain he had not gone to bed yet. That was about to change.
“Cara?” he said in surprise as he opened the door. “Is something wrong?”
Cara did not even both to answer. She just grabbed him by the tie he still had not taken off and pulled his mouth down to hers. She wanted him, and she wanted him now. He, clever boy that he was, understood immediately. Lee pulled her into his apartment and pushed her body back into the door to shut it.
“I want you so bad!” she told him, pulling away for a second to look him in the eyes. She saw that he wanted her too. The lust in his eyes was unmistakable. She leaned back in to kiss him again, this time pushing her tongue into his mouth. His kissed her back just as fiercely.
She reached for his hair again, but he caught each
of her wrists in one of his strong hands and pinned them against the door above her head. He held her trapped their between his body and the hard wood of the door as he kissed her deeply, invading her mouth.
After a few moments, he released them to begin reaching under her blouse to fondle her breasts. She knew he loved the feel of the weight of them in his hands. As he caressed her breasts, she explored the muscles of his chest and back with her fingers. He was so very strong. She did not want to wait any longer. She needed Lee now.
Putting her hands on his shoulders for support, she jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist. She was not a little girl, but she knew he was strong enough to hold her.
“Bedroom. Now.” She issued commands, and for once he obeyed her without question. As she continued kissing his lips, his face, his neck, Lee carried her into his bedroom. They might struggle for control in the office, but here was where they had always had their greatest battles.
Lee dropped her on the bed, and she immediately began tearing off her clothes. To her satisfaction, so did he. She finished first and quickly reached over to help him by undoing his belt. In just a few, they were both naked. He joined her on the bed, and began kissing her hard on her shoulders and breasts. She knew the suction of his mouth would leave a mark. Good thing he knew better than to suck on her neck. These little bruises would be easy to hide at work on Monday.
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