Page 5 of Getting Down to Business

That might be true, but he’d be looking for her now. If for no other reason than to get a look at her in a pencil skirt. Wait. Should he be ogling someone who worked with him? She wasn’t his boss or anything. Surely it should be okay. In fact, this might be the in he needed.

“Can I get your phone number?” he pushed.

“Why?”

“Because I had a good time. We might like to do it again sometime.” Lots of times.

“I don’t think so.” She shook her head.

“Why not?”

“You don’t seem to understand the concept of a one-night stand.” This was true. The last time he attempted to have a casual fling, he ended up in a relationship. They’d been together for seven months when she told him it wasn’t working. Despite his desire to figure out why, she simply moved on. He was hoping to move on as well, thus the reason he’d taken Doug up on his offer to go out on a Wednesday for ladies’ night.

“I understand the concept, but if I meet someone I like sleeping with, why can’t I have another one-night stand with the same person?”

“Because that would be a two-night stand.” She laughed.

“Not if they’re not consecutive,” he reasoned.

This did make a little sense, but Liss shook her head. He followed her into the building and waited with her for the elevator.

“I think it’s best if you stay on your floor and I stay on mine. We can nod if we see each other, and leave it at that.”

He didn’t want to leave it at that, but he agreed for now.

“If that’s how you want to play it.”

“Yes. I think it’s for the best.” They stepped in the crowded elevator and a few seconds later, they arrived on twenty-third floor. She stepped off, leaving him smashed between a woman with too much perfume and a guy with a coffee stain on his tie.

“Have a nice day, Grayson.” She said his name in the same tone she’d used the night before. The tone that made his cock twitch. The door shut and she was gone.

“Damn it,” he muttered, causing the people on the elevator to look at him.

It was fine. He knew where she worked, where she went for coffee, what club she frequented, and where she lived.

Fate was on his side. Not that he believed in such a thing.

* * * *

Alyssa couldn’t help but smile as she walked to her cubicle.

“What’s all this?” Frederick asked while making a wide circle in the air in front of Alyssa’s body. “You look much too happy for a Thursday morning.”

“Last night was ladies’ night.” Her smile grew wider.

“And did the lady get everything she desired on her night?”

“Oh yes.” And more. Three orgasms were more than she expected from a one-night stand.

“I swear if I could give you my penis, we’d both be happier,” he said, making her laugh. “You’re such a guy when it comes to sex.”

Freddie had no idea how right he was. She didn’t want any of the emotions that women normally linked to sex. It was her experience that even if a man talked about marriage, family, and love, what it really came down to was sex. It had been a painful lesson indeed.

Now, her encounters were constant reminders that the only connection she was capable of having with a man was physical.

“I made it in before you?” Mia walked up, her brows crunched together.

“She got laid,” Freddie said, while pointing to Alyssa with his thumb.