Friday Excerpt: Coworker Crush

I’ve excerpted from this story before, but that was when it was still in progress. It is finished and on sale now. My first blind lead!

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The next morning I go into work early. When I open the door, the room is dark. No one has come in yet to turn on the lights. But then I see the back of Adam’s head outlined as my eyes adjust. My hand is already outstretched towards the light switch, but I stop. Instead of turning it on, I put down my purse and walk in the dark towards Adam’s desk.

I reach out and touch his shoulder and he places a hand over mine.

“Careful,” he says.

“There’s no one else here,” I said, leaning into his back, resting my forehead between his shoulder blades. His hand tightens on mine.

“In that case,” he says, “Is there somewhere private we can go?”

I pick up his hand and move it to my elbow, guiding him to the back supply closet. He seems nervous, like he doesn’t quite trust me to guide him without running him into something. The door creaks open as I push it and we slide in next to shelves full of pieces of computers. Moving further in, the door shuts behind us.

“What’s the lay of the land here?” he says.

“There’s an empty wall,” I say suggestively. I take one of his hands and hold it to the wall. He grazes his long fingers across the smooth plaster, then suddenly both his hands are on my hips. I squeal as he presses me up against the wall and hikes me up, my skirt lifting and scrunching at my hips. He holds me with one strong arm and with the other he squeezes the flesh of my upper thigh. He quickly discovers that I’m not wearing anything beneath my skirt.