Insatiable

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second to feel her eyes on me.
    “That’s good!” I said. And it was. The colors were eye catching, the tag line grin-inducing. Funny and witty. Just the sort of thing I wanted.
    From the corner of my eye, I saw Quinn’s shoulders sag with relief. Then she launched in the other material, telling me where she got her ideas from. What made her think of certain things.
    I could see the passion she had for her work, and how much of herself she put into it. And I have to say, that was a turn-on for me. I liked people who knew what they wanted and how to make it happen.
    She loved the challenge of it, and took joy in creating.
    After perhaps a couple minutes I couldn’t keep my sight on the screen anymore. I just couldn’t stop myself from watching how animated she became. The way she smiled and the way that smile made a dimple in one cheek but not the other.
    Definitely the girl next door, I thought. The kind of girl who was so damn hot without even knowing it, without even trying it. Hell, it looked to me like Quinn actively tried to dull her looks down.
    “So, what do you think?” she said, finishing a PowerPoint slideshow about the proposed rollout schedule and distribution of the various ads. “I know it’s all a little rough, but, well, I wasn’t exactly expecting to be the one doing all this...”
    “It’s great,” I said, “I love it all.”
    My heart lurched in my chest when she smiled at me. It was an unreserved moment of joy. She knew she’d done a good job and she’d been afraid I wouldn’t like it.
    When she realized what she was doing, she dropped the smile and turned back to the monitor. “Like I said, it’s preliminary. Rough. But it will be finished by the window you specified.”
    I patted the top of the chair and turned away. I perused the spines of all the old books on the shelves, running my finger along them. I stopped at one and tapped it. Then I pulled it off and leafed idly through the pages.
    It was Pride and Prejudice . A first edition, I knew. They were all firsts in here. “You know, you’re not my usual type,” I said, closing it up. I pushed it back into its spot.
    “I hope I’m not your unusual type, either,” she said. She pushed the chair back and stood, pulling the jump drive from the computer as she went. The final PowerPoint slide disappeared from the screen.
    “And I’m going to take this as approval to continue with what I’ve showed you. In the future, I think we should correspond through email. I can show you everything just as easily.”
    In two steps I stood in front of her. She swallowed, but didn’t back down. “You know what? I think that you like me. I think that you want me and it scares you.”
    “I could never...” she said, dropping her eyes, lowering her chin towards her chest.
    I placed my hand against her cheek, my pinky finger pressed lightly against the bottom of her jaw, and lifted her face so that she looked at me again. “Just give in. I promise you’ll like it.”
    Then I tried to kiss her. Her eyes started closing, her lips started parting. They trembled a little and I knew that somewhere she did want me. My heart sang in my chest, my blood suddenly boiling in my veins.
    It felt right. It felt more intense than anything I’d felt for a woman in a long time. Since I first met Stacey , I thought, and all the ones before her that were like her.
    It gave me pause. A pause long enough for Quinn to snap herself from her own spell. She grabbed my wrist and tore my hand from her cheek.
    “I hate men like you. You think that because you’re so hot and so successful that no woman could possibly resist you. Don’t you remember what I said when we came in here? It’s not going to happen. Never.”
    She turned to go, to storm out. I knew I couldn’t let her, not now. She got to the door.
    “Quinn, wait. Please,” I said.
    And by some miracle she stopped in the doorway. It was the professional in her, I knew. The part of her that insisted she

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