system that would let her manipulate the money and the data that way. I've already talked to all the other people with that kind of access, and I grilled Zander when his name came up originally.”
So it was possible, as much as Jamie didn't want to imagine it. She'd been jealous of the other woman when she'd first come to Reid Enterprises, but over the months that they'd been collaborating together she had learned to like Emelie much more than she would have expected that she would at first, and now she found her an almost invaluable helper. Work was so much easier when she wasn’t the only PA at Reid Enterprises, especially when she was acting as one of Alex’s advisors on top of her other duties.
“I think you should talk to her,” Jamie said when she’d pulled herself from her thoughts. “Be straightforward about it.”
“That’s probably the best approach,” Alex agreed. “I’m not really looking forward to it, though.”
Jamie wasn’t looking forward to it any more than he was. She wanted the whole thing to be over and dealt with. But she could tell that Alex just didn’t want to have to tell another employee that he suspected them of embezzling and changing records.
“So wait a bit,” she said. “You don’t have to go in there right away, guns blazing.” She leaned down closer over him, letting him feel the press of her breasts against his back, and breathed the next words into his ear. “Stay here with me and I’ll see if I can’t find a way to make you feel a little less stressed.”
Alex actually smiled. She could tell by the wicked edge to the expression that he was thinking about their first time having sex in here, her riding him in his chair, and she could almost feel it. The way that he’d felt, so big inside her. She wanted him so much that it suddenly ached, and her body flushed with heat and desire.
“You sure that you want to extend that invitation, baby?”
Hell, yes, she was sure. Jamie nodded, hands sliding down Alex’s chest and the flat, hard plane of his abs so that she could slip her fingertips under the waistband of his jeans. “I want you, Alex.”
He was moving almost before she’d finished speaking, already standing, turning so that he could wrap his arms around her and pull her close with his hands on her hips. His mouth caught hers, and she opened under it, letting him in to taste her. To turn her knees to water with the slide of his tongue against hers.
Alex let go of her with one hand so that he could push the things on his desk to the side, then he lifted her up to sit on the edge of it and they were breathing each other's air. He let his hands slide upward, taking her shirt with them, and then they were on bare skin and Jamie was arching into the touch with a sigh and a whisper of his name.
It didn't stay gentle.
He made rapid work of the buttons that held her shirt closed, didn't bother pulling it any farther off. Just undid the clasp of her bra so that he could get her breasts in her hands. She let her spine curve toward him, and Alex caught one nipple between his teeth. Jamie stifled a gasp. The office wasn't soundproof.
“It's been too long since we did this,” Alex said as he drew back, and Jamie nodded in agreement, not trusting her voice.
Teeth caught her other nipple between them, and then Alex's hands were moving up her thighs, yanking her panties down and sliding her skirt up. Jamie spread her legs to let him between them, her hands clutching at the edge of the desk. It was hot to be doing it here, in his office. As hot as it had been the first time. And she needed him just as much.
He dropped to his knees suddenly, and Jamie only barely managed not to moan out loud as his hands pressed her open wider, bared her to his gaze. She was still wearing her heels, and he obviously approved, because his eyes were moving up her legs, lingering between them, and he groaned in the back of his throat, just loud enough for her to hear.
“You're so