A Very Personal Assistant

“It’s a secret. Why spoil the fun?” he said mildly, putting his foot down as the lights changed. They were taking a road out of town, and already greenery and sunlight were all around them. “You asked me to take you away from it all, and that’s what I’m doing…. I’m taking you away from being in charge.”

Oh, God…oh, God…

Miranda trembled. The phrase “a whole new ball game” had never really meant a lot to her, but now, she understood it completely. The door into the new world slammed shut behind her, the thud of it rushing through her body like a hot tsunami that crested deliciously in the pit of her belly and her sex.

As if he’d observed the phenomenon with X-ray vision, Patrick flashed her a quick glance. He barely took his eyes off the road for a second, and yet Miranda knew he’d seen everything, both hidden and unhidden.

“Let’s play a game.” He waggled his expressive blond eyebrows.

“What kind of a game?”

“Oh, just a little something to loosen you up. To relax you.”

Strangely, despite the pounding of sexual excitement, Miranda realized she did feel relaxed. And safe, in an odd way. Which didn’t make sense because she also knew, finally and with certainty, that Patrick was dangerous. Very dangerous.

She shook her head and tried to order the mismatched thoughts.

“Okay?” he said immediately.

“Yes…fine. I think.”

“Well, in that case, take off your knickers and give them to me.”

Miranda’s jaw dropped, the breath knocked out of her. It wasn’t as if she wasn’t partly expecting something like this, but to hear it, in Patrick’s soft, mellifluous tones, was like being tackled from the side by a twenty-stone wrestler.

“I beg your pardon?”

Again, that sly, mischievous look from the corner of his eye. “Oh, go on…it’s just a bit of fun. Something different to take you out of yourself.” His wicked pink tongue peeped out again. “Just for the hell of it.”

She was about to protest, but the crazy friskiness of the idea was so seductive. What would they think at the firm, eh? If they knew… No-nonsense, corporate high-flyer Miranda Austin playing silly sex games with her discreetly urbane personal assistant. Her very personal assistant, right at this moment.

“All right then! Just for the hell of it!” She snorted with laughter, and beside her, Patrick’s smile broadened, and became creamy and smug in a sweet, boyish way. He didn’t take his eyes off the road, but she could feel his elation and triumph.

And strangely, it didn’t annoy her one bit.

Hitching herself about in the seat, she managed to get a hand up her skirt and snag her knickers without flashing him. He’d asked her to take her panties off, but she was still in charge, in a little way. She wasn’t giving him extras, at least not yet. With a lot of wriggling and tugging and wrangling with her skirt, her underwear and even the seat belt, she eventually achieved her goal and hauled her cream lace trimmed knickers down to her ankles.

Blood rushed into her face. She was blushing a little already, but when she caught sight of her panties, she felt a huge rush of heat. The crotch of them was drenched and sticky. She’d known she was aroused, turned on by this new, risqué Patrick, but as swimmingly as this? Good God! And she was odorous, too. A rich waft of woman-smell rose from the pale fabric, the perfume of her desire, haunting yet pungent.

“Now what?” she demanded, wadding them into a ball, trying to hide the incriminating evidence, but knowing that even as she did, he was probably fully aware of her state. After all, it was exactly what he’d been hoping to induce, she supposed.

“Throw them out of the window.”

“What? Are you mad?” Her heart thudded. She almost wanted to do it, but they were still on a fairly busy road. “There are other cars…and also, they’re part of a fairly expensive set that I happen to be rather fond of.”

Patrick chuckled and, feeling goaded, Miranda reached for the window button.

“No! Don’t do that. On second thought, it’d be a shame to lose them. They’re very pretty—” he paused, as if for effect “—and they smell amazing!”

Miranda gasped. She couldn’t help herself. The heat in her face blossomed, and much the same thing happened between her legs, in her pussy. Which felt all the more breathtaking for her precarious lack of underwear.

“So, why don’t you slip them into my pocket, for safe keeping?” he asked, his voice light, deceptively casual.

Why not indeed? Men and their quirks. Somehow she’d not thought of Patrick in those terms…well, not consciously. But he was a man, all the same. Very, very much so. As she reached across, and rather clumsily stuffed the panties into the pocket of his suit jacket, the cloth slipped to one side, giving her a clearer view of his hips and thighs and crotch.

It didn’t surprise her that he had a very pronounced and respectably sized erection. He winked again when she glanced back up again. The devil. He’d observed her checking him out, the smug bastard!

“Look, what’s all this about?” she demanded, feeling off balance.

“Like I said, it’s therapy…symbolic. I wanted you to throw your knickers away as a representation of you discarding your worries and the stress of work.”

“And there’s nothing in it for you, then, knowing I’ve got no panties on.” She glanced very pointedly at his groin, and her heart thudded. Was he even bigger?

“Of course there’s something in it for me,” he said softly, his voice more intense and not quite as serene and controlled as before. “The thought of your naked sex is giving me an enormous horn. Do you think I don’t think about you that way?” He snuck her another fleeting glance, then concentrated on a right turn, down a smaller road. “Hell, I think about your pussy all the time, Miranda. And your breasts and your bottom and your thighs and every other bit of you. I’m a man, and you’re a beautiful woman. I can’t help myself. Why wouldn’t I think about your body?”

“So, no real interest in my mind at this time, then? I’m just a sex object to you?” she snapped out, covering her shock.

The mock-chastened expression he assumed was utterly adorable. Both sweet and wolfishly sexy at the same time. Miranda’s heart pounded harder, and if she hadn’t been securely buckled in, and he hadn’t been at the wheel of a swiftly moving vehicle, she would have launched herself at him to kiss him, and a lot more.

“Oh, I’m in awe of your mind, boss. Really I am. Why else would I so enjoy working for a woman? With anyone less smart than you, it’d be irritating…and against my nature.”

Frowning, Miranda tried to absorb what he was saying.

“You’re a dominant?”

His smile was slow now, and narrow. Not threatening, but certainly possessed of power.

“Of course.”

He worked for her. He took her orders. Yet all the time, his natural inclination was to give her orders. What an irony. What a performance. He never showed it, nor any sign of irritation. What a tour de force.

Miranda fell silent for a while, as Patrick negotiated what was becoming an increasingly twisty lane. They were out in the country now, in the wilds, and he controlled the car with only the lightest touch, effortlessly and economically.

Just the way he was completely controlling her.

“So what do you want me to do now?”

He changed gear before he answered, rounding a bend.

“How about showing me your pussy?” He didn’t look at her, but he smiled, how he smiled.

There weren’t many vehicles about around here, but occasionally they passed the odd one. Miranda realized her alarm must have shown on her face, because Patrick spoke again, almost immediately.

“Okay, that’s a bit too extreme, for now…. So how about just the tops of those delicious stockings you wear. Mmm, lace…I love it.”

“How do you know I wear lace-topped hold-ups?”

He laughed again, a free, happy sound. A little like the way Miranda was starting to feel.