Chapter 5 Emily Harris

• The restaurant manager greets us with an exaggerated courtesy, probably because he is serving CEO Noah Walker, the owner of most of the companies in Chicago. It seems strange to see him being cold to people who try to talk to him, especially after seeing him smiling just a moment ago with me.
• He tries to get rid of the waitress who shamelessly flirts with him, almost inviting him to take her somewhere and have sex with her. I try to distance myself from him and go look for my friend, but I feel a pressure on my waist that keeps me by his side. The waitress looks at me with pure disgust.
• She is really beautiful, but I'm sure I have my own attributes too. If it weren't for Noah keeping me by his side, I would have already gone to the table and let him take that flirtatious woman to some cubicle.
• "I would be very happy to serve you tonight, Mr. Walker," she had already said several times. I roll my eyes and manage to find my friend, who is talking to Mike with a huge smile on her face. That makes me happy.
• I try to approach them, but I am stopped by a strong hand that holds me in place, and I feel him getting closer to my neck.
• "How about letting my friend get along with your friend?" I look at her, who seems happy, and only I know how much she suffered with the idiot she was dating, which caused her so many problems. But I don't miss the chance to cause a little excitement for Mr. Walker.
• "And what guarantees that she doesn't want to take him to bed tonight?" I am so close to his neck that I see him shiver from my proximity. "What's the matter, Noah? Are you sensitive to my presence?" He tightens his grip on my waist.
• "I assure you I'm not that emotional." He speaks with his eyes fixed on mine. We were in the middle of the restaurant and I noticed the murmurs at some tables, so I decided to go to the table where our friends were waiting for us.
• We reach the table and my friend is laughing in my direction. I put my bag on the floor and turn off my phone so we can talk. I sit next to her and Walker sits next to me.
• "Noah ordered a red wine, they should be bringing it any moment now," Mike says and shows us the wine list. I don't really like to drink, I have terrible memories. He comes closer and shows me a specific wine.
• "I believe this is the one you will enjoy the most among all here." I give him a restrained smile and Emma notices that I'm not comfortable.
• "Don't get my friend drunk, Mr. Walker. I know how to hide a body." I look at her, warning her. Even outside the building, he is still my boss, and worse, he is hers too. But I'm surprised by his response, as he starts laughing.
• "What if I tell you that's exactly the plan?" I look at him, and he continues to stare at me intently as if searching for something in me, maybe a decision.
• I feel that connection again, the same one I felt yesterday when we met in his office. It's something that makes my heart race and my desire practically wants to advance on him right here in the restaurant, since it's been a while since I've had any involvement.
• " So don't hold on to me... " I hear only his laughter, we are still locked in each other's gaze, he probing me and I am doing the same.
• We spend some time talking before our meal arrives and I realize that I have no idea how to use each of the utensils in front of me, but my friend is my hero and she realizes that I am lost with all those excessive utensils in front of me and she gives me a little kick on my leg and shows me how to use each one of them.
• After a lot of conversation and some laughter, Emma embarrasses me by saying that I am the prodigy student and the pride of our teachers, that she doesn't even come close to me, which makes me feel awkward.
• " I have no doubt that she is truly the best, otherwise we wouldn't have hired her. " There was a hint of irony in the air, but I was starting to feel happy after a few glasses of wine.
• " Noah, I'll take Emma, I think it's better for her to take a cheerful taxi like she is, if you want, I can take Emily too. " I look at my friend who seems to be seeing butterflies flying around her.
• " I don't need anyone to take me home, I'm going shopping, I need clothes for work. " I don't think I managed to convey any certainty to the two of them who look at each other and Noah shakes his head.
• " Mike will take Emma, I'll take Emily, at least that way you'll be able to control the situation. " I see them laughing and I don't understand what they're saying.
• I get closer to my friend who has a smile that only I know, she's pretending to be happy.
• " Don't come back home now, make out with the handsome guy there. " I feel like I need to go to the bathroom, I take the napkin off my lap and excuse myself, and my friend comes with me.
• " He proposed to me, sex, just sex... " I enter the cubicle while she holds the door for me and listens to my insecurity.
• " Emily, it's been almost two years since that idiot left you, it's time to move on, if the handsome guy wants it, go for it too, be a smart girl, just don't fall in love, it can get messy. " She starts laughing and I leave the bathroom and look at her without understanding.
• "Are you sure you don't need me? " I look into her eyes before we leave the bathroom.
• "You can be sure, now go have fun with our boss, and don't come back home too early, get rid of the cobwebs between your legs." I can't resist and we laugh together.
• We leave the bathroom and I realize that they are already waiting for us in the restaurant's hall, I look at my friend who is acting as drunk as possible, trying to laugh, but not succeeding.
• With a little insistence, I decide to go home with my boss, we all go together to the parking lot, Noah helps me get into the car again while I see my friend getting into the car with Mike and I hope he doesn't make her have expectations that he can't fulfill.
• I keep looking at their car in front of us and when we reach a traffic light, we turn into another street and I look at Noah.
• "Where do you think you're taking me, Mr. Walker?" He smiles and pulls over the car once again.
• "When we are alone, I would like you to call me just Noah, do you think you can do that?" " The tone of his voice is sensual and I feel a pulsation in my intimacy, not to mention that my nipples became rigid with this proximity of his. "And in response to you, I am taking you to my apartment."
• He starts driving again and I try to control my breathing, but without success. I squeeze my thighs to control the desire I am feeling for this man.
• "And who told you that I want to go to your apartment?" He bursts out laughing.
• "Your body is screaming for me, your mind too." How conceited, maybe he's not even all that, but my only comparison is with my idiot ex-fiancé, who could barely maintain an erection."
• I don't know how I can remain faithful and even worse, blind and in love with that damn bastard.
• He takes me straight to his apartment and as a poor girl born and raised in a small town, the luxury surprises me. Sometimes I can't understand why some have so much and others so little.
• The living room of his apartment is almost the size of Emma's apartment, but the decoration is so gloomy, it seems like no one lives there and a flash in my mind arises.
• This is where he brings women to satisfy himself.
• Bastard.