Page 116 of Stanton Adore

He smiles. “We are just checking facts, medical stuff. Nothing important.” Some are dressed in suits and some are in jeans and hoodies. Hmm, what is the dress code for this place? I am then led through another set of double doors to a huge office. The whole back wall is glass with an amazing view over Sydney. There is a huge desk in the middle of the back wall facing the door.

“This is my office.” Adrian smiles.

“Nice.” I nod, impressed.

“Josh is just training. He will be about ten minutes. Do you want to go into his office and watch?”

I smile and nod. I walk through another set of doors and into the most impressive office I have ever seen, holy shit. Another huge glass wall looking over the city adorns the space. There is a conference table with at least twenty seats on one side of the room, a desk at the back and then to the left is a glass wall looking into another room. And there he stands, my prince. Looking unbelievably hot in a gray pin-striped suit and, I have to say, unbelievably smart. He is standing in front of about twenty students, writing on a whiteboard. A huge computer screen hangs behind him, erected on the wall. They are all in front of computers and are following his instructions. Every now and then he grabs his mouse and shows them on the large screen what he is doing as he talks into a microphone thing attached to his ear. Intelligence is just so…sexy.

“Who is he training?” I ask.

“He runs these competitions where computer kids from around the world have to hack into traps he has set and uncover the hidden formula.”

“Why does he do that?” I frown.

Adrian smiles. “Because he likes to set the traps more than they like to do them and it exposes him to the most talented computer geeks on the planet.” Ah, the penny drops.

“He’s recruiting?” I ask.

Adrian smiles. “Yes, they think they are here to learn, and they are, but what he hasn’t told them is that the top five will get internships with us.”

“And an internship is valuable, is it?” I frown.

“Learning from Josh is like winning the frigging lottery. The man is a genius.” My mind goes into overdrive and I ask the question I have been dying to.

“Adrian, why is Josh so heavily guarded?”

He gives me a sympathetic smile. “Josh has a lot of jealous people around him, Tash. It’s not so much him that they are after, as his mind.”

I frown as I try to comprehend what it must be like to be that smart. I shrug my shoulders and smile. Guess I’ll never find out. I sit on his desk. A smile plays on my lips as I imagine him in this office when we first started hooking up.

Now that I know him better and am fully aware that he had feelings for me all along I know he would have been unbearable to be around during those first few weeks. Poor Adrian…and Cam. What did Cam say the other night? Hmm, that’s right, Josh follows him around stressing him out. I smile at the thought…why do I find that funny? I look back to my Adonis in front of his class and I feel a familiar pull toward him; never have I been so attracted to another human being. No other male even exists when he’s in the room. As I sit in his office hanging off his every word, his eyes drift over to where he spots me sitting on his desk. Our eyes lock across the room. I can hear what his body is saying to mine, my body instantly softening under his gaze. Preparing itself for his onslaught. He looks me up and down and immediately cracks his neck. Bingo. I smile and he calls for lunch and wraps up his class. He walks into his office, grabs me by the hand and pulls me around the corner away from the sight of his class and pushes me up against the wall. Then he is on me. His powerful kiss leaves me breathless as he grabs both sides of my face.

“Jesus, what the fuck are you wearing, Miss Marx? Are you offering me yourself on a platter? Just looking at you is driving me crazy with lust. But you already know that, don’t you?” He smiles into my neck as his lips fall down to where my shirt meets my shoulders, his mouth hungrily running over my goose bump-covered flesh. I smile and pull his mouth back to mine. It has been five days since we made love and I have to say in all honesty I am gagging for it, his words not mine. His hard erection digs into my thigh and he grabs my behind to pull me onto it. I won’t even make it to lunch at this rate.

“Josh, we are going out for lunch, remember.”

“I’ll have you for lunch,” he whispers, smiling into my neck.

Hmm, that does sound more appealing, I have to admit. “We can’t. I invited Adrian.”

He immediately pulls back and frowns at me. “Why? I wanted you to myself.”

I smile. “Because I need to get to know him seeing he is probably going to be my only friend in LA.”

“You have me, and I can be a friend with very, very…” he pumps his hips into me, “…good benefits.” He runs his lips down my neck again and my eyes close at the contact. I can’t even play hard to get, who am I kidding?

“And Cam, you will have Cam.” He raises his eyebrows as if talking to a child.

“Cam’s going to be a doctor doing shiftwork at a hospital and when he’s not there…. Let’s face it, he will be playing Dr. Dreamy in bed. Besides I have a lot in common with Adrian.” He smiles and nods as if understanding my point.

“Come on then.” He releases the tight hold he has on my body and I feel the loss of the contact. “Let me give you a tip, Miss Marx,” he growls as his eyes drop to my skirt and then back up to my breasts. “If you want to make it through lunch without being fucked on the table, you had better change clothes. This whole secretary thing you have going on—” he waves his hand up the length of my body, “—is making me so hard I might break you.”

I smile and bite my lip. “I didn’t bring any spare clothes, Mr. Stanton. I hope I don’t get into trouble, sir,” I whisper darkly. Two can play this game. If he wants to play bosses and secretaries, he had better well be good at it.

He smirks a smile and does up my top button. His eyes linger on my lips. “You’re a beautiful slut.” He turns me so my back is to his front and pulls me against his erection. “I can’t wait to fuck you with those glasses on.” He bites my neck hard from behind and smacks me hard on the behind as he pushes me forward.

We walk out through the lobby to wait for Adrian with our hands linked and I am immediately made aware, by the amount of attention we are getting, that the staff have never seen Joshua with anyone. All of his workers are doing a double take at the affection between us. The two female secretaries literally swoon at the sight of him, so much so I don’t think they even notice I am actually on the other end of his arm, silly bitches. Hmm, mental note, watch out for secretaries; he seems a little too interested in secretary getup for my liking. Adrian joins us and the three of us head to lunch together with our three bodyguards trailing behind us. Is this necessary? It all seems a bit dramatic.