After what happened, him telling me I look awful feels like a slap across the face. When I look up, he’s gone. The phone is buzzing in my ear. I hang up as I close my eyes and bury my face in my hands. What the hell is happening to me?

“Alexa,” I look up to see Natalie snapping her fingers at me. “Hey, what’s the matter with you?”

Shaking my head, I evade her searching eyes. “What’s so damn important?”

“You have to quit.”

“What?” She’s joking. She has to be, but she looks very serious and very scared.

“You have to quit, today. Like right now, you can’t keep working for Leo.”

“Are you serious? I’m not quitting. Leo has put me through hell trying to get me to quit. I’m not going to give him the satisfaction. Why the hell do I have to quit?”

Natalie looks nervous. “He’s been trying to get you to quit?”

I shrug, embarrassed to admit it. “Yeah.”

“Oh fuck. I thought there was a chance I was wrong, but I’m so not. You have got to quit. Leo wants you.”

“I just said he wants me to quit. I’m not quitting because he wants me to.”

“No, you idiot not because he wants you to. Because he wants you.” She shakes her head at my confusion. “He wants to fuck you.”

I’m so stunned I can’t even think for a minute. It’s not possible. “Why would you think that? Leo, a Greek god, does not want fat ass me.”

“Because I sat in his office for like two hours and he didn’t take his eyes off you for more than fifteen minutes. I saw it in his eyes, he wants you. If he wants you, then he’s going to get you. When he does, he’ll know you lied and that I lied. He’ll roast the both of us when he finds out. So, you have to quit, right now.”

No, it can’t be. The words are on the tip of my tongue until my body responds, reminding me of what happened not more than ten minutes ago. Leo had looked at me like he was a very hungry lion who spotted his prey and was ready to leap. That’s what that was, hunger and desire, and he was looking right at me. His large body over me, close, so close I could smell him, my every breath was full of him, and it was so intoxicating it made me weak. When his eyes finally let go of mine to move to my breasts they swelled instantly, my nipples becoming so hard so fast, pain mingled with pleasure at the feel of his eyes on me. The ringing phone had been a painful intrusion, I felt cut off from him too fast.