Author's note: After finding a journal of mine from many years ago, I began to transcribe my more youthful fantasies, infusing them with the embellishment of someone who has learned a little bit more about how the world works (I actually don't know much on how it works, don't take advice from me). Just enjoy what is right in front of you.
This is a fictional work. Everyone is 18 years of age or older. Enjoy.
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Mina had never been so happy to have Monday roll around. Typically, she enjoyed Mondays because she enjoyed the work she did immensely, but the office had become a safe haven. The more she worked, the less time she had to contemplate what had almost happened between Daniel and her.
The morning after as she lay in bed she combed through the contacts in her phone, making herself busy for the remainder of the weekend and scheduling dinners for most nights the upcoming week. There was no room for error.
She had purposefully crawled in late enough most nights, knowing Daniel would be burrowed into his room or on his laptop in the back patio writing under the moonlight as he often did. During the days at work she didn't have to worry about seeing him. As the talent, he rarely made appearances while the sun was still shining. Plus, he wasn't one of her clients because she knew where to draw lines. Didn't she?
When Friday came around Mina was mid-sip of her tea, red pen in hand when she saw his lumbering form cross in front of her windows as he moved deeper into the publishing firm. Like any reasonable adult she fought the urge to slip under her desk or take an early lunch. It was bad enough she was hiding from her own house, she wouldn't flee work.
An hour passed and, assured he'd already left, she stretched from her desk, back arching in a mighty stretch as her door opened and Daniel filled the room with his presence. She curled in, limbs tucking across her chest quickly.
"So, you are alive. Good to know your ghost isn't leaving cereal bowls in the sink," he said calmly.
"And here I thought your ghost was doing them. I was about to call for a seance."
"I'm not the one who has been making myself scarce."
"I've been busy. I'm always busy."
His eyes were hard. "So busy you went to Megan's to shower this morning. Right. See, Mina, what we don't do is thisbull shit."
"Shower?" She quirked, having resumed her seat, legs tucked under her in effort to remain casual when all she wanted to do was scream that they didn't bring each other to orgasm. Well, she certainly hadn't brought him. "Weird request, don't you think."
"Fuck, Mina," he growled and leaned forward to brace his arms on the table. "I'm talking Friday night. You want to pretend it didn't happen, then just say so and we'll move on. It was just sex."
A loud laugh nervously left her lips. "Barely sex."
"You came!"
"I don't know what that was, but we weren't even close to fucking," she hissed, voice low.
He pushed off from the desk, obviously aggravated as he paced to the door. She knew how his eyes appeared when he'd not slept to meet a deadline. They were sunken in, and hers weren't much better. She'd woken up morning after morning with her fingers grazing her moist panties but refusing to do a damn thing about it just in case Daniel could hear.
"Then there you go. Solved your own problem. We didn't do anything, so just get your ass home for dinner tonight."
"You don't get to tell me what to do," she huffed at his back as he reached for the handle.
"You rather seemed to like it," he said by way of dismissing himself.
There was no polite way to go after him with the bullpen out there, ears always listening, so she let him stride away.
Mina might have written a few lines as retorts she wished she could have thrown his way as she edited her through a stack of angsty teen dialogue for a decently selling series. Admittedly the author's lines were better than hers, but this was a book where honesty didn't end in disaster unless willed. Before the day was through she scribbled them out with thick permanent marker because if she was honesty she had liked every command.
On her commute home she considered how it had made her feel, submitting to his commands. It left little room to grow flustered as she often did. She was a lights-out sort of lover, but he had her bent open and spread wide in the middle of their house. Could she have surrendered her control, something she clung to fervently? No, she had too much fight to be like the woman he often took to bed.
Didn't she? Didn't he say he liked it?
Charging into the house she was greeted by Daniel with an apron on as he prepped for dinner. The first words out of her mouth were, "Did you really like it when I had your hands pressed to the couch or were you teasing me?"
"I liked it. You think I've never been tied up before?"
The visual made her lick her lips.
"I've never been tied up," she admitted.