Chapter 11

Nathan Wilson had said she was dressing that way to offer herself up to me. Well, she was certainly getting my attention. Maybe I had to follow up on it.

It was against company policy, but we were two consenting adults, and if she was serious about it, why the hell not?

Alice

On Thursday I was dressed in my usual office clothes again. Yesterday had been a colossal failure. Mike White hadn’t looked at me twice, never mind pulling me over for hot, nasty sex. He’d had the nerve to ask me if I was dating! Like it hadn’t been obvious over the past year that I had been yearning for him.

Some men didn’t know a good woman even when she hit him in the face. I was pissed off and irritated. And sexually frustrated. I wanted a release. I wanted him to take me. I had fantasized about him doing it so many times, I was hot and bothered. But he wasn’t interested, and short of doing something ridiculous, I wasn’t going to get him to notice me.

Maybe it was better for me to move on. I had wasted a year