“What are you doing?”“Relax, Jim. You watch Sarah take care of Rafe. I’ll take care of you.” Laura rose from the sofa and stood in front ...f Jim. Bending slightly at the waist, she placed her hands on his knees and using the slightest pressure pushed his legs apart. She quickly knelt in the newly created space, moved her hands slowly up to his waist, and hooking her fingers in the waistband of his slacks, began to tug them down toward his knees. As she pulled his pants down lower over his. I sat there on my bed, not sure what I should do. I had this whole evening planned out and now it wouldn’t happen. I sighed as I called the restaurant and canceled the reservation, telling them that I was sorry for wasting their time and taking up a spot to only cancel at the last minute. I changed into a pair of shorts and a T-shirt before ordering a pizza and sacking out on the couch to watch some TV. As the night wore on, I guess I fell asleep at some point because I was woken up by the. ’ The impeccably enunciated thank-you issued politely from Shimada’s lips as he adjusted his coat sleeves and gracefully spun back around to face the executive secretary. His voice, refined with consciously reserved masculinity and controlled with intellectual precision, subtly overflowed with the rarest vintage of concealed confidence and profound humanity. He smiled shyly yet slyly all at once, as if he were both oblivious and telepathic to the all-consuming attraction which had been swelling. Nicole’s eyes locked onto her father’s lips several times, especially as he began moving closer. He set her phone down on the cushion next to him and moved his left hand to cup her right cheek. Both were beginning to realise that there was no escaping from their feelings. They could fight, ignore, or try to forget as much as they liked - but a connection like theirs was not easily broken. Nicole’s heart slammed back and forth in her chest as she moved up to catch her father’s lips with her own,.