Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back? ― A.A. BELL

Suddenly they weren't talking about the project. Alex knew that he was telling her more than he wanted to. He couldn't pull her into this clusterfuck of a mess. Burying his thoughts and feelings inside, he mocked her, "What's the matter? Don't think you know me better than anyone anymore? Are you so willing to defend an evil corporation that you're ready to compromise on your job, your principles?"

"This isn't about me, but I didn't know you were into self-flagellation," She sassed back.

"Damn you."

"No, damn you, Alex. Who the hell do you think I am? Don't try your mocking, indifferent act with me. I won't be belittled, by your arrogant jerk façade or be hypnotized by your charm. You don't fool me. I know I'm right about this, now why-"

"I don't care what you think you know. Don't interfere in matters you know nothing about. It's my bloody company and my fucking contract," he railed at her finally having had enough of this dangerous conversation.

"To do with, as you see fit? Now you're just being childish," she replied in a condescending haughty tone.

His control just... snapped at her words. He couldn't believe that she was taking all of this so lightly. Unaware of the danger and the impossible choices that he had had to make, he felt his throat closing up as his stomach churned and his brain melted with rage. Not being able to trust her and wanting her with every breath in his body added to the already complicated situation. Not bothering to think about it anymore, he roughly jerked her to him by grabbing her arms lowering his head to hers.

"Don't ever call me childish again."

Swept away by the torrent of emotion he was experiencing, it was a wonder to him that he didn't just fly out of his body. But as soon as he started kissing her, Alex knew on some level that Cat hadn't even hesitated. She'd opened her mouth and kissed him back just as angry and hungry as he was for her. Maneuvering her, Alex walked Cat backward to push her up against the window.

She felt like heat flooding his arms. Intending to punish her with a brutal kiss, he plunged his tongue inside her mouth ready to conquer her at least in this. She was so wild, so reckless and un...malleable that it made him want to bend her to his wishes and make her see reason just this once. High on the guilt and pain, Alex was suffering from having made a deal with the devil to save his goddamned legacy, he directed all his frustration to her.

But as soon as he tasted the unbearable sweetness of her mouth and felt her soft warmth shaping against his rock-hard muscles, he forgot everything about what he thought he wanted from her. Feelings of vengeance, hurt and past mistakes were swept aside in a conflagration of reckless desire and burning intensity.

Unable to control his need, he roughly shoved up her dress to her thighs with one hand and massaged her breasts with the other. Feeling her aroused nipples, Alex bent to suck them over the fabric. His searching fingers soon found the hot wetness of her unmistakable arousal. He looked up to see her melting gold eyes watching him feed on her and it fueled his frenzy. She gasped in shock as he tore at her black, lacy underwear.

Trying to exercise some kind of control on his ravaging senses, he paused to caress the velvet inside of her thighs encouraging her to open wider for him. Stroking a finger inside her drenched readiness, he began to tease her inner walls.

"You're so fucking wet for me," He breathed out in her ear.

Feeling like a conqueror, he pulled her forward to unzip her dress so he could see her breasts. Pushing the sleeves down, he was lost in hearing Cat's breathy moans and shuddered gasps. It was the most erotic thing he had ever heard in his life. As he shifted a hand, to unhook her laced black bra, Alex gazed upon her closed eyes and arched neck to place a string of biting kisses at the place where her neck met her shoulders and that he knew drove her crazy. She mewled like her namesake and writhed against him.

"Alex...please," She moaned.

"What do you want?"

He pulled back a bit to take in the sight of her luscious, creamy breasts with their coral-pink nipples swollen with desire. It had been eight years since he had held her like that. Her body was a little fuller and her muscles more defined, but he was still mesmerized as if he was seeing her for the first time.

"You're unbelievably perfect," Alex breathed out reverently tracing her taut stomach and hips.

"Alex, you...I don't-"

She slid her fingers in his hair and pulled him down.

"Tell me what do you need?"

"Take me in your mouth."

Not needing to be told twice, he suckled the tip of one breast. The double caress of his mouth against her breasts and his middle finger stroking inside her made Cat moan and quiver violently against him. Feeling his finger sucked deep inside her, Alex set up a punishing rhythm. She ground her hips against his palm as he added in a forefinger. Alex let out a growl at her pleasure-induced groans.