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low and warm into my ear. “Where do you—”
    “I’m two seconds away from castrating you with my heel.”
    He leaned even closer. “Why are you suddenly more pissy than usual?”
    I turned my head and said, in barely a whisper, “It would be just like you to make me look like a career-climbing whore in front of your father.”
    He dropped his hand, slack jawed. “No.” Blink. Blink. “What?” Confused Mr. Ryan was surprisingly hot. Bastard. “I was just playing around.”
    “What if they’d heard you?”
    “They didn’t.”
    “They could have.”
    He genuinely looked like the thought had never occurred to him, and it probably hadn’t. It was easy for him to play games from his perch at the top. He was the workaholic executive. I was the girl halfway up the ladder.
    The person on our left glanced over and we both stood straight, looked forward. I elbowed him sharply in the side, and he pinched my ass hard enough to make me gasp.
    “I won’t apologize,” he said under his breath.
    Of course you won’t. Dick.
    He pressed into me again, and I felt the length of him grow even harder, the traitor warmth spreading between my legs.
    We reached the fifteenth floor and a few more people filed out. I reached behind me, slid my hand between us, and palmed him. He exhaled a warm puff against my neck, whispering, “Fuck yes.”
    And then I squeezed.
    “Fuck. Sorry! ” he hissed into my ear. I let go, dropping my hand and grinning to myself. “Christ, I was just playing around with you.”
    The sixteenth floor. The rest of the crowd exited in a single rush, apparently headed to the same meeting.
    As soon as the doors closed and the elevator began to move, I heard a growl from behind me and caught a quick, sudden movement as Mr. Ryan slammed his hand against the stop button on the control panel. His eyes turned on me and they were darker than I had ever seen them. In one fluid motion, he pinned me against the wall of the elevator with his body. He pulled away just long enough to give me an angry glare and mutter, “Don’t move.”
    And even though I wanted to tell him to fuck off, my body begged me to do whatever he said.
    Reaching over to my discarded files, he plucked a sticky note off the top and placed it over the camera lens set into the ceiling.
    His face was only a couple of inches from mine, his breath coming out in sharp bursts against my cheek. “I would never imply you’re trying to fuck your way to the top.” He exhaled, bending into my neck. “You’re thinking too much.”
    I pulled back as much as I could, gaping at him. “You’re not thinking enough. This is my career we’re talking about. You have all of the power here. You have nothing to lose.”
    “I have the power? You’re the one who pressed into my dick in the elevator. You’re the one doing this to me.”
    I felt my expression soften; I wasn’t used to seeing him be vulnerable with me, even a little. “Then don’t blindside me.”
    After a long pause, he nodded.
    The sound of the building all around us filled the elevator as we continued to stare at each other. The ache for contact began to build, first in my navel and spreading lower, between my legs.
    He bent forward, licking my jaw before covering my lips with his, and an involuntary groan rumbled in my throat as his hardened cock pressed against my stomach. My body began acting on instinct and my leg wrapped around his, pressing me closer against his arousal, my hands finding their way to his hair. He pulled back just long enough for his fingers to flick at the clasp at my waist. My dress drifted apart in front of him.
    “Such an angry kitty,” he whispered. Placing his hands on my shoulders, he looked into my eyes and slid the fabric to the floor. Goose bumps spread along my skin as he took my hands, turned me around, and pressed my palms against the wall.
    Reaching up, he removed the silver comb from my hair, letting it fall down my naked back. Taking my hair in his