Doctor Boss Is My Baby Daddy novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: After Midnight

His apartment was on the eleventh floor of a new building by the river, and it looked like nobody lived there.

A couch still in plastic, a table with no chairs, and a stack of unopened boxes labeled BOOKS.

"I've been here three weeks," he said. "I keep meaning to unpack."

"You've been busy."

"I've been looking for you."

He said it so simply that it undid me.

I stood in the middle of the bare living room in my consignment dress and said, "You stood up in front of the board."

"Yes."

"You've known me four days," I said. "You could lose your job for this."

"I could lose it for less. I'd rather lose it for something I'd choose again." He shut the door.

"I was terrified."

"I know. I held your hand."

"I'm still shaking."

"Come here."

I did.

He put both arms around me, carefully, and I felt his breath go out against my hair.

I didn't want careful.

I turned my face up and kissed him hard, with all the anger from the table still in my mouth, and he kissed me back like he'd been holding it for a month.

I kissed him like I wanted to climb inside his suit and live there.

His hands found my waist and stayed, too polite, too careful.

I pulled his tie free and let it drop.

"Your apartment has no chairs," I said against his mouth.

"It has a bed." He bit my lower lip, just enough. "The only furniture that was ever required."

I laughed once, breathless and mean.

"Then use it, Doctor."

I turned and walked toward the open bedroom door, and I heard him follow.

The bedroom was almost as bare as the living room.

A bed with white sheets, one lamp on, floor-to-ceiling windows and the river a black shine below.

I stopped at the foot of the bed and faced him.

"Take off your shirt."

He did.

Jacket first, then shirt buttons, fast and sure, with his eyes on me the whole time.

The lamp cut across his chest and the grey at his temples.

I watched my own hands shake as I unpinned my hair.

"Turn around," I said.

He made a sound, low in his throat, but he didn't move.

"Turn around," I said again, "and unzip me."

He stepped behind me, so close I felt the heat of him through the dress.

The zipper came down slow, one inch at a time.

His mouth landed on the back of my neck, open and hot.

"Valeria."

"That's my name."

"You're shaking."

"I know what I'm doing."

"Prove it."

I shoved the dress down and stepped out of it.

He turned me around by my hips, hard enough that I stumbled back against the bed.

Then he looked at me, all of me, in the green underwear and nothing else, and his face went still.

"You have no idea," he said, "what I thought about after you left."

I put my hands on his belt.

"Tell me."

"Your mouth." He tipped my chin up with two fingers. "Your laugh. The way you said my name when I was inside you."

I unbuckled his belt and he let me.

"I'm not going to let anyone take this from either of us," he said. "Not the board. Not her."

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