by Wood, Vivian
Sleeping With My Boss
Vivian Wood
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Copyright Vivian Wood 2020
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Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
About Vivian Wood
Thank you as always to my beta team — Patricia, Kathy, and Kym. You guys are so helpful and encouraging. If I had a heart, you would make me cry.
Also a shout out to many members of my ARC Vixens group, who helped double triple check this manuscript before it went out. Thank you thank you thank you!
Chapter One
Luna
Three months earlier
“All the ladies on the dance floor, let me see your hands!” the DJ shouts over the baseline of the music that saturates the whole club. “You’re in Vegas for one night and I want to see you shake it!”
A little scream ripples through the packed club. It’s hard to hear over the wub-dub-dub of the music though. The lights flash, different colored spotlights bouncing around, hitting each spot for only a second.
I lean against the bar, taking another birthday cake shot. I’m all dressed up and here in Vegas for the weekend with my friends…
But I’m sort of avoiding everyone I know at this point. Cate and Harper are off doing god knows what with god knows who. And my brother and his two friends are here somewhere but I just…
I don’t know. My birthday always makes me sort of morose.
So I take another one of the shots I’ve paid for, swaying to the music. This weekend was my idea so I’m doing my best to try to get into it.
Alcohol may not be the best way, but it’s the easiest. I’m more than a little buzzed right now. Not exactly drunk but I’m definitely working my way toward that state.
I stop at the edge of the dance floor, the bass beat so loud that I feel it vibrating through the thin straps of my purse. My gaze is drawn up above the raucous crowd, to a balcony that looks out over the dance floor. A solitary figure is standing there. My breath stops for a second as I wait for the lights to hit him.
A bright purple spotlight is thrown across his face briefly. I straighten. He is handsome, with dark hair and high cheekbones.
But it’s really his morose expression in this sea of people jacked up on endorphins… it calls to me.
He’s in Vegas. How can he be sad?
Before I know it, I’m weaving my way past little clusters of people dancing, heading for the stairs.
I can’t fix most things.
But this guy? I can fix whatever is wrong with him, if only temporarily. Plus, he’s so hot that he’s actually kind of hard to look at.
That’s my kind of problem.
So I climb the metal staircase with the guy in my line of vision. He’s wearing a white button up and dark, low-slung jeans. And he’s gripping a tumbler as if it was the only thing tethering him to the ground.
Tall, dark, handsome, and brooding? Check, check, check, and check.
When I reach the upper floor, I run my hand along the balcony rail as I approach him. He is so engrossed in staring down at the dance floor that he doesn’t even notice me at first.
Usually I’m the center of attention at parties back home in Seattle. I’m cute, I’m blonde, and I come from a family that’s obscenely wealthy.
So this is a change of pace for me, not being noticed by a man. I get close enough to him to be heard.
“Mind if I stand here?” I call.
He starts a little, looking surprised. Then he just nods. I stare at that beautiful face of his for a second, then cock my head and smirk.
I can’t help it. I reach up to touch his face.
“You’re handsome. You’re tall. You have the face of a model,” I tell him.
He frowns and pulls back. “Quit that.”
I grin at him. “No.”
He steps close to me, his eyes narrowing on my face. He scowls but that only makes me more determined to make him have a good time.
I reach out and snag his hand, giving him a doe-eyed look. “Dance with me, stranger.”
Tugging his hand, I pull us toward the staircase. And to my surprise, he sets down his glass and follows.
I head downstairs, elbowing my way into the midst of several hundred strangers. People are gyrating in time to the low beat of the music. I can feel the heat of their bodies pressed up together. I can smell their sweat mixed with perfume, too.
I stop and turn, stepping right up against the hard line of my chosen partner’s body. I start moving with the beat, putting my hands around his neck and tipping my head back.
His hands settle against my lower back, pushing his hips hard against my own. I lean closer to him, inhaling a lungful of his clean, manly scent.
He smells absolutely delicious.
He presses against me again, moving in time with the beat. I smile and look up at him.
His brows are drawn down, his cheekbones so high and hard they could cut me. But his lips…
It’s really his lips that draw me in, pale pink and plump, looking like they are begging to be kissed.
I rise up on my tiptoes, shouting next to his ear. “Want to kiss me?”
He pauses for a second. I look at him, look at the desire that is stamped across his face. His gaze drops down to my mouth and I wet my lips.
I need this stranger to kiss me, right now.
He surprises me by bending me back a little first and then brushing his lips against mine. His mouth is hot and his body tense against mine as he kisses me again, this time harder, more demanding.
My hands sink into his short, dark hair. I pull at him.
Needing more.
Demanding more.
Soon we are both out of breath. He lifts my knee and I wrap my leg around his hip. He runs a hand through my hair and then grabs a fistful of it, bending my head back.
He runs his lips down the smooth column. I gasp.
I need more. I need his lips on every inch of my body, and I need it now.
I tug his head up to my ear. “I have a room upstairs. You should come with me.”
He pulls back, his eyes scanning my face, his expression conflict
ed. He grips me harder for a second, indecisive.
If I want him, and I really do, I’m going to have to be forceful.
“Come with me.” I raise my brows at him and turn to start walking off the dance floor. He follows after a moment.
I feel as victorious as I am drunk. Pushing open the door leading out of the nightclub and into the hotel’s sleek lobby, I smirk at him.
“What?” he asks, looking me up and down.
I drop his hand and head to the elevators, pressing the button. When I turn back, he’s practically on top of me, caging me in with his arms against the black marble wall. I shiver.
He is so much bigger than I am, even with my heels he dwarfs me.
“Are you always such a trouble maker?” he purrs, his lips finding my neck. His lips are hot and firm, warming my tits and making my panties wet.
“Almost always,” I gasp. The elevators chime, announcing their arrival. He sucks at my pulse point, making me writhe.
“Such a bad girl,” he murmurs. “I can’t wait until you’re stripped bare and on your fucking knees before me.”
The elevator doors slide open. I can’t help but grin at his dirty mouth.
I push at his big frame. “Then let’s go upstairs.”
He doesn’t budge. He just cups one of my tits as his mouth moves down, exploring my collarbone. He tugs my strapless dress down in the front so I am almost about to spill out of it.
“Patience,” he whispers. “All things in good time…”
At the same time his hand ventures down to my hip, trailing down to my thigh. His hot fingers tease their way up my inner thigh, making me clamp my legs together.
“Not here!” I squeak, my face growing red.
He sucks on one particular spot on my collarbone, his fingers trailing up to touch the vee between my legs. I gasp and writhe, wanting to get away from his touch but also kind of liking it.
“Are you sure?” he chuckles.
His free hand moves to my face, gripping and turning my head until he kisses my ear. All the breath leaves my lungs in a whoosh as he uses the tip of his tongue just inside my ear.
My eyelids flutter closed. My hands clench his shirt. I moan, low and long.
I swear to god, he can take me right here and now as long as he doesn’t stop his tongue’s deft movements. I’m not sure if I can even come from having my ear licked and teased…
But I swear, I’m going to burst into flames if he so much as touches my tits or my pussy. When he pulls back, I stare at him openmouthed and just starting to blush.
“What did you want again?” he asks, cocking a brow.
“I…” I swallow, gathering my thoughts. “Upstairs.”
He laughs at how tense I am. Stepping back, he motions to the elevator. The doors have long since closed.
My hand shakes as I move to press the button again, calling the elevator back. The doors slide open and I step inside, feeling like a fawn trying to walk as I totter in my sky high heels.
I turn around, pressing the button for the top floor. He is right behind me, eyeing me.
“We are going to have fun.”
I can’t speak. There’s too much carnal tension in the air. I just bite my lip and nod.
As the doors close, he reaches for me again.
Chapter Two
Luna
I have everything I want.
Well… almost everything. I have money. I have a career. I have male company, if I want it.
That’s enough, right?
I stare down at a brilliant gray piece of fabric in my hands. Unsurprisingly, it holds no answers for me. Sighing, I try to shift my focus back to the little dress shop I’m in with my two best friends.
We’re in downtown Seattle, browsing through the racks in a tiny one-room shop. Brunette, willowy, and beautiful Cate is trying on a few garments behind a dressing room made mostly of a blue velvet curtain.
Red-haired Harper is taller than the two of us and a little more substantially built but she’s absolutely gorgeous; she just has the perfect proportions and absolutely slays everything she wears. At the moment, she’s perusing the jewelry on a table with gentle hands
Meanwhile I keep pulling out dresses, touching them, making a dissatisfied expression, and then putting them back.
Pulling a dress off the rack, I take it to the mirror and flatten it against myself. I’m blonde and thin, kept that way by an hour and a half of running every day. The pink velour dress could flatter my pale complexion… and the dress’s high collar does make my heart-shaped face and high cheekbones seem more pronounced.
Taking another moment to glance at the dusty pink against my deep-set ocean blue eyes, I sigh.
The dress is good. Great, even. But I own a thousand dresses that are great; I’m looking for something spectacular.
“I can’t believe Luca is making me go on this trip!” Cate declares from behind the fitting room curtain. “Who knew he cared about going to see the mezcal being made in Oaxaca?”
“That’s my brother,” I say with a shrug. “He’s always been like that. If you didn’t want to go on weird booze-related adventures, you shouldn’t have accidentally married a rich bar owner. There are remedies for it, the first being divorce.”
Cate sticks her head out, turning a delicate pink. She shoots me a look. “If it’s all the same to you, I think I’ll keep him. Why on earth are you so cranky, anyway?”
Harper scrunches her face up, turning away from the jewelry table. “Yeah Luna, you’ve been snippy all morning. What have we missed? Is it medical school-related?”
I clear my throat, blushing a little. “Sorry. I’m trying really hard to keep things under wraps. But I’m doing a bad job, obviously.”
Cate frowns and pushes back the curtain. She’s wearing a dress that I really like, a strappy little plum-colored dress. Only because she’s Cate, she put on a white dress shirt under the velvet dress. It looks stylish, but also sort of chaste.
I smile because I like to think that I’m the reason that Cate abandoned her old wardrobe of full length, drab gray dresses. Of course, marrying my brother Luca also likely played a big role…
“What things are you talking about?” Cate asks.
Letting the dress I’m holding drop back into place on the rack, I shift my stance with a sigh. “You know how I missed a bunch of classes lately because my uterus hates me?”
Harper comes over to where I’m standing, a dress catching her eye. She examines it as she talks. “Yeah. Endometriosis, right? It makes you have ultra-bad periods. Lots of bleeding and pain. It’s like your uterus is Rambo on steroids and it has a vendetta against you every month.”
My lips lift at the corners. “I haven’t quite heard it put to me that way before, but sure.”
“Harper is great with summarizing things in the most elegant way possible,” Cate giggles.
Harper winks in a very exaggerated way and we all chuckle. I shake my head.
“Okay, well… during one of the classes I missed, they announced summer internships. These are a big deal. Having a successful one on our CV basically means that when we’re interns, we are placed with the best residents.”
I pause to make sure that Cate and Harper are still with me. Cate nods and Harper cocks her head. I push onward.
“Since I missed that day of class, I missed the last three months of signups for internships. The only one left is with a place called Aurora Borealis Charters.” I make a face. “It’s a place where you can rent a boat and a crew to take you sailing up the coast to Alaska.”
Both Cate and Harper look surprised. Harper leans in with a sly look.
“Are you telling me that you, a fairytale princess who is going to be a doctor, will have to live on a boat for a few days?” She grins. “But how will your wardrobe fit on the boat? Oooh, I know. You could hire another boat to follow you around and keep your closet on board.”
Cate laughs at that. I shoot Harper a glare.
“Very funn
y,” I mutter. “I admit, it’s not the most ideal position for me. But it’s literally the only one left.”
Cate jumps in. “I’m sure that it won’t be that bad. I mean, other people have done it before, right?”
“Yeah.” I nod. I step away from the racks of clothing with a sigh. “It’s just… this is sort of a last chance for me. I struggled this year with my classes and my endometriosis diagnosis. I went on hormonal birth control and it’s all much calmer now, but…” I pause, taking a deep breath. “I have to prove myself this summer. And to do that, I have to get hired first.”
Harper moves a little closer, touching my arm. “You will get hired. I know it.”
“Any place would be lucky to have you,” Cate chimes in. “Honestly. There is a reason that Harper teases you about how you’re a fairytale princess, and it’s not just because you are well-dressed. It seems like everything you touch just…” She makes a gesture with both hands. “Flourishes.”
I smile at her. “Thank you. That’s very kind.” I look her up and down. “You’re planning on getting that exact outfit, right? Cause it’s cute.”
Cate flushes, brushing her hands down her front. “I think so, yes.”
“Good.” I spin on my heel. “Harper, you’re looking for a necklace, right?”
She nods. “Yeah, but I don’t see anything here that’s quite right.”
“Did you look at the pendants hanging on the mannequin in the front window?” I ask, pointing toward it. “I thought they were both precious.”
