Chapter 55

KATE

Nathan lays me down on the bed, leaning over me. He wasn't proposing anything different. Just to keep having sex with the condition of not maintaining any relationship with another person. He wasn't asking me to be his girlfriend like Kent. Maybe I expected him to ask that after I told him about Kent. How pathetic. It's just sex. He's not in love with you. That's why I should stay away from him. I can't lie to myself anymore. I'm starting to feel something for him, something beyond sex. This is wrong, worse, it's impossible.

"Let me go, Ryan," I try to push him away.

"Say yes. No one will know, except for us."

"This is ridiculous."

"Why?"

"I'm not a fucking whore, Ryan!"

"I never said that."

"But you want me to act like one. Having sex with you, my boss, in secret."

"Why do you always insist on putting things that way?"

"Because that's how they are."

"We're adults and even though I'm your boss, we know it doesn't affect anything at work. That's how things are. That's how you hav