"I'm bored."
The voice behind me drawled those two words out lazily, prompting me to pause for a moment, fingers hovering over my keyboard before I continued working, the last few lines of an email about refactoring update loops waiting to be typed and sent off to my counterpart. "Good for you, I'm working," I answered, the clicks of my typing resuming.
The voice snorted and I suddenly felt two slender arms hanging over my shoulders, dangling down to play with the zipper of my hoodie. My ear was suddenly full of breath, warmth suddenly caressing it, and as the smell of sandalwood crept into my nose, the speaker swayed for just a moment before leaning on me, speaking quietly. "We both know this isn't work, this is you procrastinating until you can log out. And besides, they wouldn't care if you took a break for a bit. You need a little entertainment from time to time." I heard the smile on his lips, the change in his voice making it clear what entertainment he had in mind.
"I'm pretty sure what you have planned is a little bit more than a break. And my boss is relaxed but not that relaxed." I countered, but made no move to escape, enjoying the closeness. Working from home had its perks, including such affection from my boyfriend even as he tried to tempt me away from an ongoing conversation with my colleague Rani, her headshot sitting in the bottom corner of the screen as she sends me IMs describing her problem while I deal with one of my own.
He hums and I felt his head tilt, pressing against mine, acting more like a cat with a few base needs than a human that understands the concept of "employment" and "core working hours" or "professional behaviour". I could feel the zip on my jacket starting to move down, one hand guiding it while the other moved in for the kill. I felt his nails on my bare skin first, then the pressure of his fingertips before his hand claimed both my pectoral and the top of my abs, small delicate movements rubbing over my skin and sending shivers up my spine as I felt my skin begin to break out in goosebumps.
"Fuck you're cold," I complain, trying not to let myself react any further, filling my brain with pointers and memory allocation and list navigation to stop me from reacting further to the caresses. To stop me from flipping the chair and diving on top of him. To stop him from winning.
"It's because I need someone to warm me up. Some adorable self-conscious nerd, perhaps one whose boss doesn't know all he's wearing to work today is a hoodie and some shorts that grip his ass on a way that's driving his poor, lonely, abandoned boyfriend mad." He smiled and a hand moved up to grip my throat, his sharp nails just pressing slightly. "Good thing this lowly office drone is at least interesting for someone like me..."
I sighed, turning slightly trying to catch a glimpse of him. "Let me finish this, and then I'll clock out, I'll make up the hours on Monday. And less of that drone talk - we can't all be born with a silver spoon in our mouths and work for our mothers telling other people to push numbers around."
The hand clutching me suddenly gripped tight enough to cause me to wince. The voice leaned closer, whispering directly into my ear, taking a breath before explaining. "Trust me, if you had to deal with that harpy every day, you'd be demanding the wages I earn." The flash of pain vanished as he let go, before laying a kiss on my cheek, following it up with another on my shoulder as his hands retracted. "Don't be too long, lover boy." He purred, and I felt him stand, the sound of his bare feet padding across the wooden floor to the doorway, pausing just for a moment at the entrance to my office.
I turned to look after him, finally drinking in Sasha. The menace, the rich kid turned super-rich adult who one day moved into the apartment next to mine. That was 18 months ago, and now I'm in his new (much larger) apartment, working from the desk he gave me as a gift, coding away for all hours of the day while he does something in finance when he feels like it and leaves the details about it at that. Oh, and cooking - it's hard to understate how good a cook he is. He's rich enough to bring in a maid though to tidy up, a situation I'm still not comfortable with (especially after she entered the apartment on one of my few days off to find us trying out romantic positions on the sofa in a state of undress).
But I am comfortable with how beautiful he looks. A dancer's body with icy eyes, and at that moment, he is standing dressed in little more than a robe and squared-off glasses perched at the end of his nose. I recognize the sheen on his underwear though, see the way the shape seems to be reforming from something practical to something more risque, the outer layer forming a hard bulge around his front. He looks at me like a jester, a tease and yet I know he has me wrapped around his finger.
I tried to forget the jester and return to my refactoring.
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It's my own fault when I'm late. Lost too deep in the details of an ongoing project, I had just finished an emergency three-way phone call with a client out in Hong Kong and my office buddy Rani when I felt a hand appear on my shoulder.
I started to speak, started to explain, to come up with an excuse but it's all for naught. When Sasha is angry, and he was quietly angry, the Russian accent returns to his speaking, curling up the ends of his words. "I thought I made it clear, любовник (lover), that I expected you quickly. It's been over an hour…"