This wasn't like her.
Sarie never had sex in public places. Never anywhere she could be caught. Certainly never with anyone she had no intention of dating seriously.
Yet one month after breaking up with Melinda, the girl she'd loved for two years, she found herself flat on her back on the conference table at work. At Angie's mercy.
Angie "the powerhouse" Baker was so different from her. So different from Melinda. It was what had first attracted Sarie. Angie was open about being a lesbian, and went for what she wanted. Whenever she wanted.
"You are such a little hottie," Angie said, stripping the lacy white panties off her ankles. "If I was that girlfriend of yours, you'd never have gotten away."
Sarie looked down. Angie's eyes were on her bare pussy, her hands sliding up her legs. "You're telling me you'd be someone's girlfriend?"
She smiled, not looking up. "You got me there."
Closing her eyes, Sarie concentrated on the feeling of Angie's slow fingers. The tease of orgasm. How the small bursts sunlight from the slats in the window shades warmed her skin.
Trying to ignore the fear that someone would walk in on them.
"Angie." Sarie reached out to run her fingers through the woman's short dark hair.
Her soft tongue broke through Sarie's plump folds. It traced a slippery trail from the opening of her pussy up to her clit, then went to work.
Sarie's pelvis hitched as Angie devoured her. Moaning, she felt herself tense and twitch when that slim finger entered her. It curled in her pussy, sending shock waves through her body. Sarie's head rolled on the table, the room swimming around her.
A tall form in one of the doorways caught her eye. She stilled her head and focused.
"Mr. Downey!" Yanking her skirt down, Sarie sat upright.
Angie bolted to her feet and wiped her mouth. "Sir? This...this isn't what it looks like."
"Oh." Their boss strolled into the room, bursts of sunlight dancing over his hard face. "So you haven't taken advantage of my friend's barely legal daughter inside my building? On my conference table?"
A foot below his hulking height, Angie stared into his eyes. Said nothing. The vitality of her normal behavior was lost.
"Get out before I fire you," Mr. Downey said.
Sarie jumped up, following Angie to the door.
"Not you, Sarie."
She stopped in the doorway.
Angie hesitated, throwing her a look of sympathy. She shrugged an apology before disappearing down the hallway toward the elevators.
Sarie didn't turn around to look at him. Didn't speak. Was he going to fire her? Give her a lecture? Or...
"Shut the door," he said to her back.
The elevator dinged. Angie was gone. Everyone else was at lunch.
Wrapping her hand around the slim, cold handle, Sarie clicked the door into the frame. Then closed her eyes. Prayed.
"I thought you were a good girl. All these years of watching you grow up. Knowing your family. Seeing you on your knees getting communion at church. Now this? Turn around."
There was no denying it. No lie to be made. She'd screwed up. The double life she'd lived was unravelling. Her job was on the line. Her future. Everything.
Sarie turned. Staring at the ground, her fingers caught the ends of her blonde hair at her neck. She twirled it like she had as a little girl when she was in trouble.
"You always made good grades in school," he said softly. "Straight As. Your father bragged about it all the time. Never boy crazy, always focused. Tell me, all that time, were you dating girls?"
Sarie shook her head. "No sir."
Not the whole time.
"I see. How many girls have you dated?"
She raised her gaze from the floor, finding his big black dress shoes and following the long length of his trousers to his chest. "I, um, have only dated one girl."
"How many have you been intimate with?" Mr. Downey crossed his arms over his broad chest.
"Two," she muttered.
"You're gay?"
She nodded.
"Have you ever been with a man?"
The question made her head snap up. She looked into his pale blue eyes as he inclined his head. "No. Of course not."
His eyebrows rose, driving thin lines into his forehead. "'Of course not?' It's a sin to be homosexual. Surely a girl as smart as you should have tried to be with a man before renouncing God."
"I haven't renounced God." She cleared her throat. "Just because I like women does not mean I'm not a Christian. He loves us despite our sins."
Mr. Downey checked his watch. "I sincerely doubt that your father, or the congregation, would agree."
Sarie pressed her eyes shut. He was right.
"Now that we're passed all your evasions and lies, I'd like to offer you my assistance."
"With what?" Her eyelids fluttered open.
He strode over, stopping just in front of her, his chest level with her face. "Being gay is a big decision for someone as young as you. You should experience being with a man before you expose yourself as a lesbian any more than you already have."
Her mouth dropped open. "Mr. Downey?"
Face inches from her own, he pressed his hands against the door behind her. His arms on either side of her hips, she scarcely had room to move. Heat flew off his body.
She heard a click. The door lock.
"I'm...fine with who I am, Mr. Downey," Sarie said. Him being so close made it difficult to breathe.
His steady aquamarine eyes drilled into hers. "There is only a ten year difference between us, Sarie. Call me Nathan. Or Sir."
Taking a deep breath, she straightened, standing taller. "Thank you for your offer, but it's unneeded."
"My apologies for the word choice. It wasn't a simple offer." His lips curled as he watched her mouth. "Either I help you this way, or I help you another way."
She was almost too afraid to ask. "What other way?"
"I tell them the truth."
Sarie's green eyes went wide. "No. You can't."
"No?"
"No." She blinked, trying to think her way through this. "Besides, they'd believe me over you. They've known me since I was a kid. And my dad would never doubt me."
"Hmm." He slipped a hand into his pocket. "You may be right."
When he pulled away from her, she sighed and sagged against the door.
Sauntering over to the table, he pulled out his phone and tugged his tie loose. "I suppose it's lucky for me, then, that I have the pictures to prove it."