He Stole My Bill, So I Divorced Him and Outranked His Father novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Hands and Knees

Emilio's POV

She shut my bedroom door with her heel and pushed me back onto the bed.

It was past ten.

We had driven from the Spurlock ranch in two trucks, not speaking.

I had known the whole way what she was going to say.

"You told the Governor you were leaving," Greta said.

"I told her on Friday."

"Why?"

She stood over me with her handbag still on her arm.

Her dress was dust to the knees, and her hair had come down.

Her eyes were furious and wet.

"Because you are going to be the best chief of staff this state has had," I said.

"And I am the man you take orders from in the dark."

"So?" she said.

"So I cannot be your boss at nine and your man at ten."

"You decided," she said.

"Yes."

"What did I tell you in Room 408?" she asked.

"Don't ever decide what you can bear," I said.

Her face did something complicated.

She put her handbag on the dresser and took off her shoes.

She looked at me for a long time.

"Take off your clothes," she said. "All of them. Slowly."

I stood and undressed.

I took off the tie, and the shirt, and the trousers, and last my shorts.

I stood naked at the foot of my own bed with the lamp on.

I was already hard, and I did not cover myself.

She walked around me once, in her dust and her green dress.

"You think I'll go," she said, behind me. "That's the thing under all of it."

I did not answer, because it was true.

"You think a woman who gets her own chair walks out and leaves the man who watched her climb it."

"Yes," I said.

"Say it plain."

"I think I'm the stair," I said. "When you reach the top, you won't need me."

I heard her breath catch.

She came around in front of me and put both hands on my face.

Her thumbs were rough with peach-crate callus.

"Face down on the bed," Greta said. "Now."

I lay down on my stomach on the spread.

I heard the zipper of her dress, and the dress fall.

I heard a drawer slide, and the click of a cap.

The mattress dipped, and she knelt astride the backs of my thighs.

Her hands came down warm and slick between my shoulder blades.

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