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"What the heck?" Eve cursed as the elevator came to an abrupt stop. She had been looking at the display and knew that they were somewhere between the 5th and 4th floor. "Damn it, I don't have time for this," she muttered as she stared at the display.
There was only a red light on the emergency button. Everything else seemed to have been turned off.
"Neither have I," a deep voice stated behind her.
She jumped in surprise. She had been so focused on her tablet and the presentation she was preparing that she had almost forgotten that Sean was there. It was a miracle really. His manly scent and his large frame were difficult to ignore.
He could make her moisten her panties just by looking at her, but at the same time, he constantly rubbed her up the wrong way, making her growl when she really wanted to purr. She looked around. There was no one else in the elevator beside them. Great. Just fucking great.
"Press the red button!" he ordered.
Just that ordering her about always made her annoyed.
"Press it yourself," she countered.
"Life would be a lot easier if you just did what you were told once in a while," he said with a frown.
"Well, excuse me for not believing being stuck in an elevator with you a favourite fantasy of mine," she said ironically.
"It should be," he said and grinned that wide smile that seemed to work on all the other women in the company, landing him more than enough bed mates if he ever bothered to look.
She had vowed never to become one of them, which meant that she had to hold on to her anger, giving him verbal spikes for every sexual comment that he threw in her direction. The best solution had been to stay far away from him and she preferred that over getting into verbal disputes with him while her body heated up and tried to persuade her brain to attack him with some other parts of her body instead of her tongue.
"Oh, just stuff it!" She pressed the red button hard and started stamping her right foot.
The security company had better listen and get them out of here really quickly.
He grabbed his mobile and called someone. That seemed to work a lot better than the red button.
"Hey Mark," he said. "We're stuck in the northern elevator. Get us out before the lady faints."
She snorted loudly. As if she would ever do anything that stupid.
"Which floor are we at?" he asked her.
"Between 4 and 5."
He relayed that information to Mark before he hung up.
"The cavalry is on their way."
"I'm more concerned why no one answers that damn panic button," she said. "Not much use in panicking when no one bothers to save you."
"Feel free. Just panic all you like."
"As if!" she huffed.
"I can save you. Don't worry."
She laughed. "That's exactly why I'm not panicking." She looked down her nose at him.
"Yes, that's just what I've always liked about you."
"Don't go there, Sean," she said and gave him a hard look.
"But I like you, hon," he said sweetly as if he was calming an angry dog.
"Oh, just shut up. Spare me the routine."
"Which routine?"
"The 'let me talk you into my bed' routine. Just stop it. I'm sick of it."
"Sick?"
"As in I'm about to vomit."
"Nothing wrong with a little flirtation," he said.
She looked to the ceiling and turned away from him.
"Have they fallen asleep or what?" She banged the door. "Hey! Get me out of here!"
"We're working on it," she heard Mark say from far away.
The thick walls in the elevator dampened all sounds.
"How long will it take?" Sean shouted.
"About an hour or more," Mark said. "We need the fire department and they are busy. There's a large fire in one of the wooden buildings in the city centre."
Eve sighed. She knew exactly what that meant. Every firefighter from miles away would concentrate on putting out that fire before it spread to the rest of the city, which meant saving people from elevators was much lower on their priority list.
"I'll try to get hold of an elevator repairman instead. But I believe most of them are on strike this week."
"Could things possibly get worse," she mumbled.
"Sure they can. Do you need to pee?"
"What sort of question is that? No, I don't," she hissed at him. "Do you?"
"Not yet. But when we do, we should decide which corner of the elevator to use."
She just stared at him, completely flabbergasted.
"Not happening. Just keep it in the pants, buddy!"
"It's not wise to ignore your bodily needs for too long."
"Huh! Normal people control their urges with their brain. You should try that," she flung at him.
"Ouch. Or perhaps you should listen more to what your body wants?"
"I'm not peeing in front of you. Forget it."
"I was more thinking about what other interesting things we could do while we're waiting."
"I don't want to hear this."
"Running away again?" He grinned at her, before making a show of staring at the walls surrounding them. "Oh, wait, you can't run. Excellent. For once you will actually have to stay and talk to me."
"No, I don't. I can just close my ears and ignore you," she said as she turned her back to him.
She heard him shuffle at the other end of the elevator and he sighed contently. She could not resist peeking at him and noticed that he had sat down on the floor and laid his papers beside him. He looked up her legs as if he was trying to peek underneath the hem of her skirt. She grabbed the hem and pulled it down, almost losing her tablet at the same time.
"Why don't you sit down and relax? We're in for a long wait."
She hesitated. His legs were so long that he blocked most of the floor. She could either sit beside him or opposite him. Opposite was more tempting but she noticed that the floor was more dirty on that side. She didn't want to get her clothes soiled.
He seemed to read her mind.
"You can sit on top of me," he offered. "Then you won't get stains on your skirt."
"No, I can't."
"Can't or won't?"
"Both."
"I promise I won't bite."
He could promise all he liked because she could see from his eyes that there were a lot of other things that he wanted to do besides biting.
"That desperate, huh?" she flung at him. "Not getting anything these days?"
"I can be patient," he said warmly. "When there's something I really want. And I've learned that sometimes the skittish ones are worth the wait."
"Sounds more like abstinence if you ask me. You know, a good psychiatrist could probably help you with your addiction."