Evan's Addiction (10 page)

     She swallowed visibly and her breath was slightly shaky as she
breathed in. “So…what, I should feel special or something?”

     I could tell she was trying to go for sarcastic and snarky, but
her tone was too breathy, and knowing I was affecting her was better than
closing any deal.  

     My voice came out gruff as I answered, “You are.” My desire for
her was reaching excruciating intensity. For that reason I stood and walked
away, otherwise I would have hauled her out of that chair to molest every inch
of her.

     I did have the satisfaction of finally having the last word
though.

∞                   
∞                    ∞

     Even though we’d been warned Dan and I were still stunned when
Shaw verified that there was a program stealing the company’s money.

     It was now the second day of Shaw’s warfare against the ‘
Damn,
frick’in, think you’re so smart, donkey ass program
’. And those were just a
few of the colorful names she’d been mumbling under her breath as her fingers
flew over her keyboard. I was barely getting any work done because she was too interesting
to listen too.

     That she was wildly hot and my dick was in constant erection mode
didn’t help either.

     My hands were incessantly tingling because they wanted on her
body, and in that mass of hair. It was up again in a more contained bun that
took up the entire back of her head, and all I wanted to do was liberate it.
And I’d come to the conclusion that the loose fit of her clothes tantalized me
more than any revealing outfit had before. 

     “Ha, inferior minds need not apply.”

     Dan chuckled at another of Shaw’s acerbic remarks. “That girl is
highly entertaining.”

     He and I were sitting on the leather sofa going over some new
business enterprises he’d asked me to look into. Unlike Dan, whose eyes
remained fixed on the papers I’d prepared for him, I couldn’t stop my gaze from
flitting Shaw’s way…again. There was a small indent between her brows and she
was biting her bottom lip as her fingers flew over her keyboard.

     Shit, I wanted to be the one biting that plump flesh.

     I’d made the decision to push Shaw into recognizing the sexual
connection between us. She’d turned me down months ago, but I knew she felt
something for me. I just didn’t know why she was refusing to pursue it.

     “Why don’t you just ask her out?” Dan asked quietly.

     I grimaced at getting caught obsessing but answered truthfully. “I
already did.”

     “So why do you look so frustrated?”

     Besides the fact that I haven’t had sex in months? “She said no.”
I said instead.

     Landon’s dad was great and we’d gotten pretty close these last
several months working together. I felt closer to him than I did my stepfather,
Kyle, and he had been married to my mother for fifteen years. Kyle had three
sons of his own and that’s who he’d given most of his attention to.

     Dan frowned. “Really?” But then a grin appeared.

     I narrowed my eyes on him because her refusal did not deserve
humor. “What’s with the smirk?”

     “It’s good that you have to work for her. It seems now-a-days thing
comes too easily to you young people.”

     Unease ghosted through me. Did Dan feel I acquired this position
too easily as a friend of Landon’s, and just out of college with only a
bachelor’s degree?

     “Is that a subtle and indirect way of saying I got this job too
easily?” I joked, forcing a casual smile on my face. 

     He shook his head eyeing me intently before clapping me on the
shoulder. “Hell no, you’ve been working your ass off for me.”

     I relaxed, because I’d hoped he saw all the hard work I was
putting in to prove how serious I was and that the chance he’d taken on me was
the right one. Dan also knew I wanted to obtain my Master’s degree and
supported me in that.

     Dan continued. “But you will appreciate Shaw more if you have to work
harder for her, and she seems to be in a class all by herself.” He chuckled.

     I looked over at Shaw again and couldn’t argue that point. I’d
never met anyone like her, and had also never been attracted to anyone more. My
need for her was growing everyday; it was literally clawing at me leaving me
frustrated as hell.

     “And you aren’t the only one sneaking glances.” Dan declared with
amusement.

     I couldn’t stop my smug grin. I hadn’t missed the covert looks she’d
been sending my way. To illustrate that fact Shaw glanced in our direction
under her lids, but since I was looking straight at her our gazes locked. She seemed
to freeze and my body tightened as the link between us sizzled with the hot
passion I knew we could find together, but then she flushed while at the same
time looking irritated as she returned to her computer.

      She was really too cute.    

      The day progressed and six o’clock finally rolled around. The
secretarial staff was gone, as well as Dan because he was keeping to his fixed
schedule of not overworking. He’d had a mild heart attack earlier this year and
was making sure not to over-stress himself these days. It was one of the
reasons why I was here; to take more of the load off him before ultimately
taking over down the road when he retired.

     I wrapped up the last of my work for the day and looked over at
Shaw. She’d been at it since one-thirty with only a few bathroom breaks.

     Rising from Dan’s desk I walked over to her. “Shaw, do I need to
have food delivered?”

     She shook her head, eyes fixed on the monitor. “No, I’m almost
done. I’ve got to get home to my own work.”

     I sat in one of the chairs in front of my desk taking in her
appearance. She was looking strained and exhausted. It had to be hard sitting
in front of a computer for so long. A few hours did me in.

     “How’s it going?”

     “This guy was pretty good at covering his tracks so it’s not going
to be as quick as I’d hoped. I have to be careful following his trail in case
he’s watching; I don’t want him to see me.”

     I smiled at her wording. She treated the virtual world like it was
the real world. “How would he see you?”

     She flicked a quick glance up at me before going back to the
screen. “Just like in real life, moving through virtual space leaves clues that
you’ve been there. In the real world it could be a foot impression, hair, or
fingerprint. In here…” She nodded at the computer. “It’s like those, but
they’re different. It was how I found his program. It was something that
shouldn’t have been there. If he’s trolling through these programs like I am
then he could see something I left behind, so I have to make certain that I
clean up after myself when I leave a…room.”

     She was dumbing down her words for me but I was okay with that. I
could work a computer better than the average person, but what Shaw was doing
was beyond my skills. With one final click of her finger she slumped back in
her chair, lids dropping with a tired sigh, while rotating her head and neck.
Poor girl had to be one big knot.

     I
really
wanted to help her out with that.

     Straightening from the chair I moved around the desk and began
massaging her neck and shoulders. She stiffened at first, but then she fell
forward onto the desk resting her head on her bent arms. I had to shift
slightly to the side of her chair to follow her.

     “Oh…my…god.” She groaned. “I think you might be better at this
than that spa girl.”

     I moved down her tight back and spine, wrapping my fingers around
her sides as I molded her muscles firmly with my hands. My need to touch her
was two-fold; I wanted to ease her tension, but I also wanted to get my hands
on her. It ended up being bitter sweet torment, and the pounding heart beat in
my dick both complained and approved. My hands were nearly brushing the sides
of her breasts when she suddenly tensed again and shot up out of the chair away
from me.

     “It’s getting really late. I really need to get going.” She
blurted out.

     Two
really’s
sounded serious. I held back my smirk at her
obvious reaction to my touch.

     “Get your things, I’ll take you home.” I turned to go grab my
briefcase and jacket.

     “What!” Shaw exclaimed loudly behind me. “I mean…what do you mean
you’re taking me home? I thought I was going back in the company car again?”

     Since my back was to her I allowed my smirk free reign this time
at hearing her alarm. “Why have someone go to the trouble of driving you when
I’m already going that way?” I reasoned.

     Silence met my logic, and it stayed with us the entire way down in
the elevator, and as I steered her in the direction of my metallic BMW Alpina
B6…and then she said it.

     “I knew it.”

     “Knew what?” I unlocked the door for her.

     “That you would be driving a vehicle like this to compensate for…”
She held up her pinky and wiggled it. “You know.”

     I held up my own pinky and wiggled it in false confusion. “There’s
nothing wrong with my pinky; see, it works fine.”

     She set her things in the back and slid into the front with an
evil grin. “You know, these days they have tons of new-style gadgets to help
with your…deficiency.” 

     I bent over and got in her face with an evil grin of my own. “You
better watch it, Shaw, because I have no problem demonstrating how
not
-deficient
I am.”

     She gulped and reddened, but waved her hand carelessly. “Psshh,
I…forgot my magnifying glass.”

     I busted out laughing. “Is that all you got. That’s so high
school. That was seriously disappointing, Shaw.”

     She sighed and laid her head back against the seat. “I’m tired…and
hungry.” She whined.

     Chuckling, I shut the door and strode around to the drivers side.
The engine purred when I started her and I reversed out of my designated
parking spot. 

     “You know, this is my first big buy since I started making my own
money. It’s my first step to being a real grown-up.”

     “This just shows how stunted your thinking is, a mini-van would
have
screamed
grown-up.” She retorted.

     I gave a man shiver. “If I ever get one of those I will let you
run me over with it.”

     She put her hands together and said dreamily. “Finally, a reason
to live.” 

     My cock twitched to give her another reason to live. “And that’s
only my first gift to you. Do you like Mexican food?” I saluted the security
guy at the gate as he opened it for us.

     She frowned. “I can wait till I get home to eat.”

     “But I can’t…so do you like Mexican food?” I repeated.

     Another sigh. “Yes.” 

     I grinned at how put out she sounded. “How are end of the term
exams going? I forgot that you had those this week. I hope what you’re doing
for us isn’t putting too much pressure on you.”

     “It’s no problem. I have them in the bag.”

     I grinned at her cool arrogance. “What’s your exact major in computers?”

     “I have two actually; Internet Technology Security and
Networking.”

     “Wow! That’s impressive. And here you are already putting your
soon to be Internet Security degree to use.”

     She nodded. “Yeah, I’ve already talked to one of the professor’s
who’s class I’m supposed to be taking next year and he said I can use this as
credit for his course.”

     I raised my eyebrows at her. She was so certain of her abilities
that she had no doubt she would accomplish her goal. Her confidence was sexy as
hell. 

     “That was fast. You weren’t kidding when you said you wanted to
graduate early.”

     Her lip twisted but not in a happy way. “Nope.”

     I gave her a quick thoughtful look. “Why aren’t you enjoying the
college experience, Shaw?”

     She sighed. “School just sucks.”

     What about it sucked for her? “For people who aren’t good at it
maybe, but you are extremely intelligent so it should all be a breeze.”

     She shrugged and looked out the side window. “The only thing I’m
getting from going to college is a title for something I already know what to
do. It’s a fucking waste of time, but people like that little piece of paper
so...” She didn’t finish.

     Bitterness colored her tone but I didn’t think it was because of
the reason she was telling me. “Does your dislike have something to do with
that problem Carrie was talking about months ago?” The one Carrie would only
tell us involved a guy.

     Shaw’s expression was confused at first but then cleared with
remembrance. She gave me sidelong hooded look. “What do you know about it?”

     It was clear she didn’t like the idea of me knowing anything about
it, and I wasn’t going to rat out Carrie. “Nothing, but my offer of help still
stands.”

     “I’m taking care of it, but sometimes stupid takes a long time to
fix. I’m sure you know how that is.” She gave me a muted sneer.

     “Yeah, actually I do.” I threw her a grin, but whatever this
problem was she wasn’t handling it as well as she thought if she was still
dealing with it months later, and it bothered me that she wouldn’t share what
it was. If she let me I would take care of it for her if it was in my
parameters to do so. My desire to fix it for her was so strong it was actually
a bit startling. 

     I wondered suddenly if this guy problem was why she’d said ‘
no’
to me. Maybe she’d been through a bad relationship that had soured her on men?
Maybe this guy was still a smear on her windshield annoying her no matter how
hard she wiped. I needed to question Nic on his knowledge of Shaw’s dating
history.

     Shaw gasped in mock surprise. “So accepting.”

     “I’m a boss, I deal with stupidity everyday.” I countered, pulling
into the drive-through of a small Mexican Restaurant.

     “Uhgg, fast food.” Shaw complained.

     “It’s not your typical fast food chain.” I reassured her. “This is
a mom-and-pop restaurant that is able to get certain foods out fast. Mostly
tacos, burritos, or nachos.”

     Her eyes perked up. “Okay, then I will have a dry bean and cheese burrito
with all the veggies they have, and water, and a churro if they have those fast
and ready. Please tell me they have those.”

     The first spark of enthusiasm I get from her and it’s for a
dessert. “Yes, they have churros.”

     “Yeahhh,” she clapped eagerly.

     At least I knew the way to her heart now…not that I wanted her
heart. I liked Shaw, she was gorgeous and engaging, and my cock was so fucking
hard for her I was going crazy, but someone’s heart wasn’t something I was
looking for at the moment.

      I gave our order to the teenage girl at the window and a couple
minutes later she handed us our food. Handing Shaw her drink I set the bag of
food in my lap as I drove away.

     “If you give me the bag I can divvy up the food.” Shaw offered.

     “Can you survive five more minutes?” I asked, a plan forming in my
head to give us more time together.
     “I don’t know, do you like your arm?” She returned.

     I chuckled at the insinuation of her eating my limb. “Come on, you
can handle five minutes.”

     Deep exhalation. “Maybe, why?”

     “Tell you in five minutes.” I threw her a smirk.

     She cocked her eyebrow, effectively torturing the hell out of me,
and making the swelling in my pants even more of a discomfort. “I have to wait
for my food and to find out why. You’re really stretching your luck, Evan.”

     “Hey, I have some skittles in my pants. Want to taste the
rainbow?”  

     She turned to look out the side window, but I saw the grin she was
attempting to hide. “No, skittles leave a nasty taste in my mouth.”

     I laughed. “Do you like pickles? I’ll give you a nickel to taste
my pickle, and then I’ll make you shiver as I deliver.”

     She giggled under her breath. “I only like those Vlasic pickles
that snap when you bite them.” Her eyes came back to me with a bright twinkle
in them. “Is it one of those?”

     I shuddered through my amusement. “Nope, definitely not a Vlasic.”

     “It’s probably one of those nasty limp pickles.” Now she
shuddered.

     My affronted look wasn’t faked. “Not even close.” I groused. 

     “Okay, okay, calm down. It’s only a pickle.” She snickered.

     I shook my head. She always had a comeback and I loved it. My
destination came into view and I drove through the entrance and parked.
Grabbing the bag of food and my drink I climbed out of the car pretty certain
she’d follow, and I was right.

     “Where are you going?” She yelled hopping out.

     “Don’t forget your drink.” I hollered back instead.