Chapter 323 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“So you’re going to get an assistant? Is it going to be a male or female?” Celsie asked, not sure she liked the idea of a female assistant who would be going everywhere with Benne.

Benne chuckled when he saw the slight crease on her brow, “I take it you want a male assistant for me. A male it is then.”

Oh! He wanted a female assistant? “Don’t mind me and just do what you want. You can get a female if that’s what you want.” Celsie said, and Benne chuckled as he shook his head.

“I don’t want a female assistant, Celsie. Both for your sake and mine,” he assured her, and Celsie looked away, embarrassed that he had seen through her.

“Would you like to sit in during the interview process just to make sure that the male candidates are straight and there are no females amongst them disguising to be male?” Benne asked in a teasing tone, and Celsie giggled.

“Should I just do that then? I could even pat them down before the interview just to be sure,” Celsie joked, and Benne chuckled as he watched her.

“I’m going to miss having you next to me in my office,” Benne said, and Celsie smiled.

“I still can’t believe you pulled that stunt, and I fell for it. What was I thinking? A CEO choosing to punish a director because she doesn’t like her driver?” Celsie asked, facepalming herself, and Benne laughed, making her glare at him.

“I’m sorry. You were just desperate to keep your job. Else, you probably would have caught on.”

“Thinking about it now, you did do a lot of ridiculous stuff. Having the company shut down at closing hours because I worked overtime and kept you waiting, restricting employees from leaving the company’s premises with extra work just so that I wouldn’t take work home and be bored, making me wear my hair down and take off my glasses, and then that hideous costume. I can’t believe that Harry actually let you do all of that around the office just to woo a lady,” Celsie said with a shake of her head.

“To woo you, you mean? Nothing stops you from saying, ‘I can’t believe Harry let you do all of that just to woo me.’ I did all of that to get close to you, to know you, and to win your heart. I’m sorry for all the silly things I did and said back then,” Benne said apologetically, and Celsie smiled.

“Yeah, even though you were trying so hard to be a bad boy, I saw through you. You’re one lucky man, you know?” Celsie asked as she moved closer to him.

“Yeah. I’m very lucky to still have you in my life despite my screw-up. If you take a step closer, I’ll take it that you agree to take back what you said earlier, and I’m not going to keep my hands to myself anymore,” Benne warned when she stopped just an arm’s length away from him.

“Okay, how about you only keep your hands to yourself when we are in public? When we are alone, we don’t have to keep our hands to ourselves. I want to hug you now, please?” Celsie asked, making a cute face, and Benne shook his head.

“I don’t think I can ever say no to you,” Benne said, making Celsie grin as she went to where he was seated and placed both arms around his neck.

“You shouldn’t ever say no,” she said as she embraced him, and Benne rested his head on her chest as his hands automatically moved to her waist and ran up her back, making her sigh.

“Jewel?” Benne called softly as he broke the hug and pulled away to look into her face.

“Hm?”

“I still feel really guilty about how I deceived you. I’m very sorry I did that to you,” Benne said apologetically, and Celsie smiled.

“Then you should make it up to me by never lying to me again,” she said as she lowered her lips to his.

Although she still felt very embarrassed by how she had fallen for it all, she tried to see things from his perspective. She knew that even though he was sorry, he didn’t regret it. And somehow, even though she did not like what he had done, she also did not regret it because she knew that there was no way she would have ever let him get that close to her if he had walked up to her directly.

Benne held himself back as she kissed him softly, and he groaned when she deepened the kiss by pushing her tongue into his mouth. Benne pushed her away from him gently, “We have to join the others for dinner. We won’t be able to do that if I let you keep that up,” Benne said in a husky voice as he stood up.

Laughter gleamed in Celsie’s eyes when she saw the bulge in his sweatpants, and she stuck her tongue in her cheek as she put some distance between them. Good thing that his arousal was more visible than hers. That was what he got for making her uncomfortable earlier.

“By the way, what was it you wanted me to wear?”

“Yeah, about that. Come over here,” Benne said as he walked into the closet, and Celsie followed him into the closet.

She watched as he brought out a box from the top of his shoe shelf, and when he opened it, her eyes rounded in surprise when she saw different sex toys inside.

“Here, these are some of the receipts. Should put your mind at ease,” Benne said, wanting her to confirm the day of purchase.

“I don’t think I need to see that to know you were telling me the truth. What did you get all these for?” Celsie asked as she looked at the box’s content, most of which she had never seen nor had any idea what they were used for.

“To pleasure you, of course,” Benne said as he picked out an egg-shaped vibrator from the box, “This is it. I want you to insert this inside,” Benne said, making Celsie’s eyes round in surprise.

“Inside? Insert this inside where?” She asked as she looked from the egg-shaped vibrator to Benne.

“Inside you.”

“Tell me, do you?” Jade asked, leaning closer to Harry, who drew back as he set down his glass before meeting her gaze.

“Do I what?”

“Do you like me?” Jade asked after a moment as though she was trying to recall what the question was.

“Am I supposed to not like you?” Harry asked in return, and she giggled.

“That’s not what I’m asking, and you know it. Don’t shy away from the question,” Jade said as she placed a hand on his chest, and Harry’s eyes fell on her perfectly manicured nails.

“The only thing I know is that you are drunk, and it’s time to go home before you embarrass either of us,” Harry said as he tried to get away from her, but Jade pushed herself forward and settled on his body, with her head resting on his chest.

“Hold on, I need to finish up my drink first,” she said as she patted his chest, and once again, Harry found himself holding his breath. This time he wasn’t just holding his breath. He sat as still as possible, as though he was scared to move or do anything.

Harry mentally counted to ten, scared that if she didn’t move anytime soon, he might collapse from lack of oxygen to his brain, and just when he counted up to eight, she sat up with a sigh, much to his relief.

“You are already tipsy. Drinking that might knock you out, and I…”

Oblivious to what she was doing to Harry, Jade reached for the remaining three shot glasses and gulped down their content before turning to look into Harry’s honey brown eyes.

“It won’t, don’t worry. And even if it did, I already gave you the permission to carry me home. I won’t sue for harassment come morning,” she assured him, but Harry noticed her speech was starting to slur.

“Did you know that the first time I met you, I thought you had the most beautiful pair of brown eyes I’d ever seen?” Jade asked, making Harry’s lips twitch in amusement.

“You did say you liked my eyes,” he said, recalling how he had thought that she was just being nice that night.

“I did? But I guess you didn’t believe me, did you?” Jade asked with a giggle.

“Yeah, I didn’t.”

“Too bad you didn’t. That was actually one of the reasons I stayed up that late talking to you. I just wanted to keep staring into your eyes under the night sky,” Jade said with a wide smile as she struggled to keep her eyes on his.

“And here I was thinking that it was because you actually enjoyed our conversation,” Harry said dryly, making her giggle.

“I did enjoy our conversation that night. I doubt that there has ever been a time when I didn’t enjoy a conversation with you,” Jade confessed as she leaned on Harry once again.

Harry feared that if they remained there and she continued resting on his body this way at intervals, he might suffer brain damage due to lack of oxygen to his brain, so he cleared his throat.

“We should leave now,” Harry said when she remained silent for some time and he assumed that she had dozed off, but Jade grabbed the front of his shirt as she shook her head and raised her face to look up at him such that her forehead was on the same level as his chin.

“Why are you in so much of a rush to get back to your apartment? It’s not like the place is on fire, or it’s running,” she complained with a pout, and Harry turned his face away from her.

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