Chapter 20
Blair watched Roman’s door, wondering what was going on inside between them. She heard Roman’s laugh and then nothing for a long time. Suddenly, the door was swung open to reveal a clearly upset Jessica. She didn’t say anything, just stomped across the room towards the exit.
“Goodnight Mrs. Kingston.” Blair thought it polite to say to the woman.
She was shocked by Roman’s next words. “The only Mrs. Kingston is my mother. If Jessica insists on keeping my name, it’s Ms. Kingston if she really is to up herself to be called by her first name.”
This only seemed to ignite Jessica’s temper, and she gave a small squeal and left the offices.
Roman was on his mobile within seconds. “Peters, make sure one of your team sees Jessica leaves the building with zero fuss, please.” Roman put his
phone back in his pocket. “Well now, that’s dealt with. Shall we go home?”
Blair had so many questions but kept them to herself. She didn’t have the right to question him about his ex wife. Not now, maybe not ever. “I’m ready to leave but Roman…. I should have brought this up before. We can’t be seen leaving together, not if we want to keep it quiet.”
“Everyone has left for the day,” Roman said.
“Not everyone, and only one person needs to see us together for the rumors to start.” Blair expressed her concern. “I have an idea. Why don’t I walk to the bus stop and you leave in five minutes and pick me up from there? We can figure it out over the weekend.”
She could see Roman wasn’t happy with her idea. But he knew how she felt about people finding out about them. Not yet.
“Fine, whatever. But you will have one of the security team follow you to make sure you’re safe,” Roman conceded ungracefully, but added his own
conditions.
Blair grinned at him and pointed to the window. “It’s perfectly safe in daylight, Roman. I would agree if it was dark out, but it’s not. I will walk to the bus stop on my own.” She walked over, leaned in to give him a quick kiss. Well, that had been her intention, but he groaned at the first touch of her lips to his and grabbed her around the waist, pulling her into his hard body and took her mouth in a hungry kiss.
When he finally let her go, Blair had to grip his arms to hold herself upright. She was breathless and her knees felt like jelly. She was also so turned on she felt like breaking her resolve about having sex at the office. It really surprised her how good his kisses were.
One kiss could fire her blood where it would have taken Dan some heavy foreplay to even come close. She wondered if Roman got the same result with every woman. Maybe this was normal for him and she had just been missing out in her relationship with Dan. Who had more experience than her? Why hadn’t he picked up on something being wrong with their sex life? Maybe that’s why he had cheated. Sex with Dan had been ok, but she had always thought there was something not quite right. The earth shattering climaxes she had experienced with Roman had shown her. She wasn’t wrong. There had been something definitely major missing between her and Dan.
She looked into Roman’s face to find him watching her intently. His next words proved to her how affected he was by the kiss. “You better go because if you are standing in front of me in the next ten seconds, I will strip you naked and take you to the floor.”
Blair’s eyes widened before she grabbed her handbag off her desk and all but ran from her office. She made it to the lifts on their floor in record time. She wasn’t against having sex with Roman, the opposite, but just not at the office. Blair hit the lift call button as someone grabbed her arm and spun her around. Thinking it was Roman, Blair wasn’t overly alarmed until she saw it wasn’t Roman, but Dan instead. What was he doing on the executive floor? Had he been waiting for her? Blair shook her arm free, not having time for this. Roman wouldn’t be coming out this way, so wouldn’t know she had been held up. He would leave in his private lift.
“Don’t you dare touch me.” Blair glared at Dan. Rubbing her arm where he had laid his hand on her. She never wanted him to touch her ever again.
“Blair please. Can we talk?” Dan pleaded.
“No, there is no point.” Blair said, crossing her arms across her chest in a defensive gesture. “I wouldn’t be with you if you were the last man on earth.
“I made a mistake and I love you.” Dan confessed.
“Well, you killed any feelings I had for you when you slept with Laura.”
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“It was a mistake.”
Blair laughed, “Mistakes happen once, Dan. Just how many times did you mistakenly slip your dick inside of her? Because I’m going to take Laura’s word for it that it’s being happening for a while.”
“Don’t believe that, bitch. She is lying.” Dan was trying to bullshit her. She watched his right eyebrow go up. His tell. Looking at him now, she saw the weak jaw and signs that his hairline was receding. Comparing his body to Roman, it was severely lacking.
The lift doors opened behind her. She didn’t get on, instead; she focused all her attention on Dan. Before she left, she had something to say. So the doors closed again.
Blair poked her finger into his chest, which she would be sure to disinfect it later. “You are the liar here and don’t give me any story about loving me. You don’t cheat on someone you love. Do you know how dirty you made me feel?” She was going to go for a checkup tomorrow, just in case. Because when a partner cheated, you were sleeping with all their partners and she wouldn’t feel clean until she knew for sure this scumbag hadn’t given her anything. Blair wiped her finger she had touched him with on her skirt to show him her disgust.
Dan saw the movement, and a look crossed his face she couldn’t quite read. Anger, disbelief, maybe a mixture of both. But she didn’t see guilt and that more than anything proved to her she was making the right choice. Dan didn’t feel guilt over cheating, meaning he would do it again. Well, he wouldn’t do it to her, but if he and Laura got together, then she was in for a bumpy ride. It made her question if Laura had been the first. That very thought made her feel really dirty.
“We have nothing more to say to one another, and I have somewhere to be.” Blair pushed the lift call button again. Because nearly everyone would have already left for the day, the lift was still stationed on their floor. The doors opened straight away. Blair turned her back on her ex and stepped into the lift.
Blair let out a sigh when Dan followed her. She wasn’t scared of him. The office had security and cameras everywhere. It’s the fact he was fighting their breakup and thought he could talk her out of it. She pressed the close door button, hoping to hurry along this ride in the lift with Dan. Wanting nothing more than to be away from him.
She couldn’t believe he was fighting their break up. Thought he could change her mind. Fat chance. If the cheating hadn’t been enough, knowing she had been missing out in the bedroom department would be. Roman had some impressive equipment, and he knew how to use it. He knew her body better than she did. The things he did to her were… well, hot.
“I miss you. I miss us. I was feeling lonely, and I made a huge mistake.” Dan tried again. “Please, just give me another chance.”
Blair watched the numbers on the lift descend. “Ugh, Dan, totally not going to happen.” Thinking Laura still hadn’t told him about the baby. “Have you spoken to Laura since this all blew up?”
Dan’s face twisted with anger. “Why would I talk to her? She is the reason for all this…”
The lift stopped on the ground floor. She quickly moved off the lift. Swinging around to face him at his words, Blair cut him off. “Don’t you dare blame this solely on her. You are the one who couldn’t keep their pants zipped, Dan.”
He tried to reach for her arm again, and she stepped away from him. “Don’t. I think you should call Laura and have a word with her, Dan. Because you have your day of reckoning about to fall on your head.”
There were other people in the lobby. A few co–workers and people from other offices from the first three floors, but she didn’t care they were watching. She had nothing to be ashamed of.
Blair could see Peters by the security desk off to the side. He was watching the exchange. He straightened, pulling his phone out of his pocket and made a call, never taking his eyes from the scene in front of him. Blair didn’t need to guess who he was calling. There was only one person. Roman. She held up a hand to let him know she was ok. Hoping he would get the hint to let Roman know that. The last thing she needed was Roman to come chasing in here to deal with Dan.
Dan noticed the people around and colored red. They had just washed their dirty laundry in public and everyone would know by tomorrow the reason they had broken up. “Blair please.”
“You can beg. You can plead, but I don’t forgive cheating, Dan.” She turned on her heels and walked away from him, holding her head up high as she called over her shoulder. “Call your girlfriend Dan. Tthink she has some news you might need to hear.” At the front doors of the building, she turned to face him across the foyer. “Oh and Dan, if you don’t stop harassing me, I will put in a complaint to HR.” Before pushing the door open and walking out into the fresh air.
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Dan couldn’t do much else with people watching, so he let her go.