“Don’t leave me,” Ashlynn pleaded, and his heart thumped painfully hard in his chest.

Jase had been working for Ashlynn for just over two years. They’d become friends during that time, and he’d honestly come to cherish the easy friendship they’d established. He knew Ashlynn well enough to know that she would take advantage of him should he ever allow her to. And damn if he hadn’t wanted her to on more than one occasion.

But she was his employer, his boss, the woman who needed him to protect her. He wasn’t supposed to lust after her, yet he did.

He definitely did.

“Do you need somethin’?” he asked, not bothering to turn back around. If he did, it would only make things worse.

Expecting to hear her voice from across the room, Jase jumped when her hands came around his waist, her breasts pressing against his back.

“I need you,” she whispered.

“Ash…” Placing his hand over hers, he was gearing up to separate their bodies when she tightened her grip, then slipped lower, grazing his dick.

Fuck.

Instant fucking hard-on.

“Ashlynn,” he said more firmly. “You need to sleep it off. You’re drunk.”

“I don’t care,” she said, moving around until she was standing between him and the door. “That doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m doin’.”

Aw, fucking hell. He felt like stomping his feet and throwing a tantrum.

She was naked. So naked.

And he wasn’t supposed to see her naked, wasn’t supposed to be glancing down at the pretty pointed tips of her breasts, those sweetly puckered nipples that he desperately wanted to suck. He absolutely, positively wasn’t supposed to continue eye-fucking her as he allowed his gaze to roam, venturing lower and settling on her bare pussy.

He was going to hell.

He was going to get fired and then going to hell.

He was going to get fired, Max was going to murder him for taking advantage of his sister, and then he was going to hell.

Shit.

Before he could say anything more, Ashlynn’s arms wreathed his neck as she went up on tiptoe to meet his mouth with hers.

He growled. It was an involuntary reaction as her soft, warm lips grazed his. She smelled amazing. Like lavender, vanilla, and… Well, she also smelled like booze, but still, the scent of her was intoxicating.

Telling himself to pull away, Jase groaned again when he found himself stepping closer, pushing her up against the door, his hands planted firmly on the wood. He didn’t trust himself, but he couldn’t seem to pull away. When her tongue gently coaxed its way into his mouth, Jase knew he was a goner.

“Stay with me tonight,” Ashlynn murmured as she kissed him, her lips caressing his face, his jaw, his neck.

As though she already knew he was going to say yes, her fingers began working free the buttons on his shirt. It took no time at all before he was stripped down to nothing but his underwear, and they didn’t remain on for long, either.

By the time he was naked, they were back to the bed, Jase hovering over her while he devoured her mouth. Unable to resist the temptation now that she was begging him, Jase trailed his mouth down her body, learning all of the sweet spots that made her moan. Her breasts were overly sensitive, as was the soft skin on the inside of her thighs. But when he licked her pussy, inhaling the musky scent of her sex, Ashlynn told him in no uncertain terms exactly what she liked.

She held his head while he licked her, nibbled on the plump lips of her sex, flicked her engorged clit with the tip of his tongue. She cried out his name when he pushed one finger, then two, deep inside. And when he added a third and sucked her clit between his lips, she damn near suffocated him as her thighs clamped down on his head.

Jase had Ashlynn in every way he could have her. He made her come with his mouth, then with two fingers pounding into her ass, and after that, he slipped on a condom and fucked her pussy until she was screaming his name over and over, still begging for more. After ditching that condom, he retrieved another, found the lube she kept in the nightstand drawer, and then buried his dick in her ass after she pleaded for him to do so.

Two solid hours had passed before, finally, he allowed himself to come, and when he did, Jase knew without a doubt that Ashlynn Adorite had ruined him for anyone else. Never in his life had he met a woman who could match him thrust for thrust, desire for desire. She had been insatiable.

However, while he’d known the moment he’d plunged into her that she had wrecked him, he also knew better than to get his hopes up where she was concerned. Two years into his job and he’d seen her with more men than he could count on both hands. He wasn’t sure how that would work going forward—if at all—but he knew that seeing her with other men was going to devastate him.

“Thank you for that,” Ashlynn mumbled as she rolled over and curled up with her pillow.

Jase had no idea what to say, so he opted to say nothing at all. After tossing the used condoms into the waste basket, he grabbed his clothes, then retreated to his bedroom. While he showered, he relived those hours he’d spent with Ashlynn, the memories flooding him until the water finally ran cold.

After falling into bed, he gave in to exhaustion, still thinking about her, wondering whether or not she was thinking about him, too.

Although she was exhausted, and yes, still a little drunk, Ashlynn couldn’t go to sleep when Jase slipped out of her bedroom. As she tossed and turned, she thought about what they’d just done.

She was pretty sure that was guilt tugging at her conscience, but she didn’t know for sure.

She’d never used a man before. Not like that.

From the onset, Ashlynn had known something was different with Jase. He wasn’t simply a one-nighter that she’d regret in the morning. No, Ashlynn was pretty sure Jase had been emotionally invested in that encounter. Sure, he’d managed to blow her mind, giving her one unbelievable orgasm after another until she’d been worried she would pass out, but other than that … it was just sex.

Yet she got the impression he’d wanted more.

Why should she care? He knew her, knew how she was. Hell, he probably knew her better than anyone else.

So what if she’d lusted after him all this time, wondering just how it would feel to have his big cock buried inside her. It’d been phenomenal, just as she’d expected. The guy knew how to pleasure a woman better than any man she’d ever met.

However, Ashlynn knew she couldn’t even hope for a repeat performance. That really was a mistake, one she’d likely pay for tomorrow. She wasn’t looking forward to the awkward tension that would linger between them. Sex was sex in her book. There were no emotional strings, nothing to complicate matters. She purposely steered clear of those because she didn’t want to hurt anyone. She simply wasn’t the type of woman who would ever fall in love.

Her eyes grew heavy as she heard the water shut off in Jase’s bathroom, knew he would be going to bed soon. And as she drifted off, she hoped like hell he could forgive her for taking advantage of him. The last thing in the world she would ever want to do would be to hurt him. Although she didn’t love him, she definitely cared about him.

More than he would ever know.

Chapter Thirty