Liam: I just got to the field house.
Before I went inside, I turned around to make sure there weren’t any lurking photographers. The fields were completely abandoned, so I ducked inside and made sure to close the door securely behind me. I hadn’t realized I’d been holding my breath until I exhaled slowly.
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We were officially sneaking around.
I’d never been to Liam’s office before. It was down the main hall, past Coach Davis'
office and the conference room. When I walked up, the door was open a little bit and I could see Liam sitting behind a desk scrolling through his phone.
I tapped on the door before pushing it open gently.
"Morning," I said, suddenly feeling nervous.
"Morning," he answered with a small smile, dropping his phone onto the desk and giving me his full attention. "Are you hungry?"
I nodded and pushed the door closed behind me. The room suddenly felt tiny. Well, it was actually really small, but Liam filled 364/890
the space and made it so I couldn't take a breath without catching a whiff of his bodywash.
"Nice office," I said, glancing around.
Clearly he hadn't changed a thing since the other assistant coach had left for maternity leave. "My favorite part is your ovulation calendar." I pointed to the wall beside his head and he shifted his gaze toward it and cracked up.
"I guess I should have actually looked around, but I'm hardly ever in here," he laughed, then shifted his focus toward me. It was too much. Standing across his desk with his dark eyes pinned on me made me fidget in my running shoes. I dropped my cleats and water bottle on the chair in front of his 365/890
desk, and then for one brief moment, I felt bold.
Bold enough to walk around to the back of his desk where he was sitting. "I'm kind of nervous. This is a weird situation and you seem much too calm."
While he was sitting, I had the height advantage and I liked it. He was the one in control of our situation. He was the one in the position of power, but right then I felt like I had the upper hand.
He reached his hand out and wrapped it around my waist. He didn't pull me toward him, he just rested it there. My power evap-orated as quickly as it had arrived.
"You should eat. Give your body time to digest a bit before practice starts."
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I hadn't even noticed the plethora of food sitting on his desk. There was fruit, protein bars, two smoothies, and some granola.
I reached for one of the smoothies because it seemed like the easiest thing to eat. I wasn't that hungry. My body was focused on other, more important things.
"Is that your truck out front? The Toyota?" I asked, turning gently toward him so that his hand pushed up the top of my workout tank by default.
His gaze followed his hand and he narrowed his eyes before answering me. "It belongs to one of my roommates. I let him borrow my car for the day so that I could travel without people following me."
So that's why there weren't any photographers outside.
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"Good thinking," I answered, letting my focus fixate on the smoothie in my hand.
"Kinsley, I know this isn't a normal thing, what we're trying to get away with. I know I'm putting you in a terrible position,"
he began, but I turned and cut him off.
"We're both in terrible positions."
He nodded, but his brooding expression didn't change.
That was the moment where I either had to say “I want this, but we shouldn’t” or “I want you, despite the consequences.” I chose to ignore both decisions. I set my smoothie back down and pushed his chair away from the desk. Time to try a different approach.
"How about you put me in a better position?" I asked, placing myself between his 368/890
chair and the desk. The wood hit the back of my thighs an inch below my thin running shorts. He followed a path up my body before our eyes met. He uncurled a wicked grin and then stood up. The wheels on his chair screeched against the linoleum floor, giving a sound effect to the shifting positions of power. He stood taller than me. His body eclipsed mine as he leaned forward, pushing me back against the desk even more.
"This isn't why I asked you to come here this morning," he clarified, but he wasn't backing off.
"I didn't lock the door," I muttered as his lips found the base of my neck.
"Then I'd better be quick," he answered, trailing kisses down toward the top of my tank. Holy hell. Where had my confidence 369/890
come from? I wasn’t this girl. But Liam was enough of a man to coax my boldness out of me. Sometimes it felt like he owned my body more than I did. I was nervous about what he’d do with that power, how far he'd take it, how much he expected of me.
One of his hands found the hem of my shorts while the other one cupped the back of my neck. He pressed my head back so that when he bent down, his mouth found mine at the perfect angle. Our lips pressed together and I knew he could feel the desire eman-ating from me in the same way I could feel it from him. It was apparent in the way he pressed himself toward me like he wanted to seal our bodies and inhabit the same air-space. In the way his tongue delved into my mouth, tasting me and demanding more.
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His hand never left my neck as his other one drifted down the waistband of my shorts, beneath my underwear. The second his fingers trailed into new territory, I opened my mouth to him even more. I was completely at his mercy. He couldn't stop. I needed him to keep kissing me, to keep drifting his hand farther down.
I whimpered as his hand found my wet-ness. I couldn't believe this was happening.
We were being so careless, but I was too helpless to stop him then. When he whispered my name against my ear and his finger sank into me, I collapsed back against the desk and let him work my body up into a tight ball of desire.
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try to control, and soon I was coming. Hard.
I was smart enough to stay quiet, but still a small whisper escaped my lips. He captured it with his mouth, sucking my bottom lip until I finally found the ground again.
He pushed off of me and I knew he was instantly regretting our carelessness, but I wasn't going to let him off yet. He'd taken care of me and I was sure as hell not leaving that room until I took care of him as well. I needed it as much as he did. So I pushed off the desk before he could get the chance to protest. I sank down to my knees and he inhaled a sharp breath.
"Kinsley, no."
I glanced up at him with a wicked gleam.
"Yes."
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His eyes flashed toward the door and I knew I was flinging myself into danger, but I couldn't stop. My desire didn't belong to me anymore. It belonged to him. It had belonged to him for longer than I cared to admit.
I pulled the hem of his workout shorts down, taking his briefs with them. I couldn't believe what I was about to do, in his office, but I wanted to. I wanted him to lose his mind. My fingers wrapped around the length of him, appreciating his size. I knew I’d enjoy it when we finally had sex.
"Kinsley, no," he was still trying to protest, but he was rock hard in my hands and I knew he wouldn't be able to find any more words when my mouth finally touched him.
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I stroked up and down and glanced up, meeting his eyes just as I started to take him in my mouth. His eyes rolled back and he gripped the edge of the desk behind me.