Episode 4: Get off that phone now

She was hiding behind the door, Rowan.' 'Look, it may have looked like I was hiding behind the door,' Stella argued in growing desperation.

 

 

'But why would I be hiding? Does that make sense? I'm just a cleaner. I can see I made a mistake coming in here, and I'm sorry.

 

 

I'll get out right now—' Without warning, a large brown hand stretched out to close round her narrow wrist and halt her backward drift towards the door.

 

 

'You're not going anywhere. What's your name?' 'Stella...I mean, Eleanor Caroline ...what are you doing?' she gasped. But it was too late.

 

 

Dior Harlequin had already tugged lose the scarf she had tied around her head. Her silvery pale hair fell around her shoulders in tumbled disarray. He towered over her, easily six foot three.

 

 

Feeling threatened by his sheer size, Stella gazed up at him, green eyes locking into fathomless black. Her tummy clenched as if she had dropped from a height, the oddest sensation of dizziness making her head swim and her knees shiver.

 

 

His frowning appraisal had become an outright smoldering stare of sexual assessment.

 

 

'You don't look like any cleaner I've ever met,' he finally breathed in a roughened, accented undertone. 'You meet a lot?' Stella heard herself ask foolishly, but then she had been thrown way off balance by what she had seen in his eyes.

 

 

That age-old oversexed male to the female reaction she despised. 'Stella...there is an Eleanor Caroline on the maintenance roster,' the older man he had referred to as Rowan cut in flatly. 'But she's supposed to be working on level eight, and Security hasn't cleared her for this floor.

 

 

I'll have her supervisor sent up to identify her.' As the other man relayed that data, the Greek tycoon's hard, dark features tautened.

 

 

'No. Get off that phone now. The fewer people who know about this intrusion the better.' Releasing her wrist, he stepped back to swing out a swivel chair. 'Take a seat, Stella.' 'But I—' 'Sit!' he emphasized as if he was dealing with a puppy in dire need of basic training.

 

 

Her teeth locking together at that style of address, Stella dropped down, her slim back rigid but her heartbeat still racing. So she had walked in where she shouldn't have. She had apologized.

 

 

she had all but groveled, she reflected resentfully. So why the continuing fuss? 'Perhaps you'd care to explain what you're doing on this floor?

 

 

Why you came into this particular office and why you chose to stay and eavesdrop behind a door?' Dior Harlequin spelled out with harsh exactitude.

 

 

The silence simmered. Momentarily, Stella wondered if bursting into tears would get her off the hook. She met those hard green eyes and her heart skipped a startled beat.

 

 

With Dior Harlequin already behaving as if she had committed a criminal offense, honesty now seemed the wisest and safest course. 'I've been having a bit of a problem with this bloke who works late on level eight,' Stella admitted with fierce reluctance. 'What sort of problem?' Rowan prompted.

 

 

Dior Harlequin let his intense dark gaze roam with bold intimacy over Stella's small tense figure, lingering at length on the tilted ** of her breasts defined by the overall and the slender perfection of her legs.

Episodes
1 Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2 Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3 Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4 Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5 Episode 6: Free will
6 Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7 Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8 Episode 9: Put them on
9 Episode 10: An adventure
10 Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11 Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12 Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13 Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14 Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15 Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16 Episode 17: He's got a taste
17 Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18 Episode 19: I hate this
19 Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20 Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21 Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22 Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23 Episode 24: My turn
24 Episode 25: So sweet
25 Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26 Episode 27: Can't talk now
27 Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28 Episode 29: What's wrong
29 Episode 30:
30 Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31 Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32 Episode 33: It's not Okay
33 Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34 Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35 Episode 36: You belong with me
36 Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37 Episode 38: Stop running away
38 Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39 Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40 Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41 Episode 42: Trust me
42 Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43 Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44 Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45 Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46 Episode 47: I don't want your money
47 Episode 48: You do deserve her
48 Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49 Episode 50: A little amusement
50 Episode 51: One month's notice
51 Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52 Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53 Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54 Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55 Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56 Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57 Episode 58: What's wrong?
58 Episode 59: I promise you
59 Episode 60: To make you welcome
60 Episode 61: You are so perfect
61 Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62 Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63 Episode 64: Then what?
64 Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65 Episode 66: What do you expect?
66 Episode 67: Don't be slow
67 Episode 68: Would I do that?
68 Episode 69: Rational
69 Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
70 Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71 Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72 Episode 73: She's a nice person
73 Episode 74: I adore you
74 Episode 75: That's what I'm here for
Episodes

Updated 74 Episodes

1
Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2
Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3
Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4
Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5
Episode 6: Free will
6
Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7
Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8
Episode 9: Put them on
9
Episode 10: An adventure
10
Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11
Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12
Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13
Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14
Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15
Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16
Episode 17: He's got a taste
17
Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18
Episode 19: I hate this
19
Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20
Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21
Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22
Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23
Episode 24: My turn
24
Episode 25: So sweet
25
Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26
Episode 27: Can't talk now
27
Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28
Episode 29: What's wrong
29
Episode 30:
30
Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31
Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32
Episode 33: It's not Okay
33
Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34
Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35
Episode 36: You belong with me
36
Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37
Episode 38: Stop running away
38
Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39
Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40
Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41
Episode 42: Trust me
42
Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43
Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44
Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45
Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46
Episode 47: I don't want your money
47
Episode 48: You do deserve her
48
Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49
Episode 50: A little amusement
50
Episode 51: One month's notice
51
Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52
Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53
Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54
Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55
Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56
Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57
Episode 58: What's wrong?
58
Episode 59: I promise you
59
Episode 60: To make you welcome
60
Episode 61: You are so perfect
61
Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62
Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63
Episode 64: Then what?
64
Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65
Episode 66: What do you expect?
66
Episode 67: Don't be slow
67
Episode 68: Would I do that?
68
Episode 69: Rational
69
Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
70
Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71
Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72
Episode 73: She's a nice person
73
Episode 74: I adore you
74
Episode 75: That's what I'm here for

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