Lost and Found (Growing Pains #1)(99)

As Monica straddled him, ripping down her top so her br**sts tumbled into his face, he lost track of thought altogether.

Chapter Twenty-One

Two Mondays after the fundraiser, the team was summoned to Sean’s office, which was now just down the hall from Krista’s. Since Krista was done with everything on his list and then some, and had time to help her department with a few other reports, she was busily working on something for Mr. Montgomery when Sean popped his head in her office.

He had started dressing more casually after moving up to no-man’s land, and that day’s result was a pair of jeans that made his butt look like a Godsend. He had on a polo shirt that showed off his defined pecs and perfectly sculpted biceps. She now knew how good those pecs and biceps felt. As a result, her mouth started salivating.

“Hey Geegee, we are in my office in ten if you have a minute?”

The team had taken to calling her Geek Girl, or G.G. for short. It was a unanimous agreement that was not made so much as Marcus’s example was followed. Even Ray had jumped on the bandwagon. Minding would have taken too much effort, so Krista just went with it.

“No worries, Cap’n.” The team had also followed her example, and taken to calling Sean ”Captain.” Again, even Ray had joined in. Ray was starting to be one of the crew, rowing with everyone else, and they loved him all the more for it.

Sean nodded and walked off, his graceful stride taking him away too fast to get much of a stare at his butt. Pity.

Krista had seen Sean with Monica twice since she’d left them in the limo. Once in the break room when she obviously interrupted something, and another time in the street when they were coming back from lunch. They were shagging. It was obvious. Or at least, they had shagged. No telling how often.

Marcus, Judy and Krista gossiped about it a few times, and then got bored since they expected it of them both. They had moved on to other gossip after that. Krista was learning a lot about the company from those two. None of it essential, or even all that appealing, but it broke up the work time nicely.

Even though Sean was off-limits, Krista still got a twinge of jealousy every time she thought of Monica. She didn’t deserve him. Yes, okay, he was a jackass with women, but beyond the womanizer crap, Krista was starting to see him as an honest, trustworthy guy with impeccable manners and a soft heart. She was definitely getting to know Sean and his double.

The problem was, he was an upstanding guy when it came to everything but that one aspect. Which meant he was perfect except for that one, huge, glaring flaw that continued to make him untouchable for any self-respecting girl.

Still, that stupid Monica didn’t even deserve any crappy part of him! Dumb tart.

Krista finished what she was doing, locked her computer, and headed to Sean’s office. She was the first one on the scene because she was so close.

“Hey Cap’n, whaaaaaaaat’s happening?” she said in an imitation of Office Space.

“Hi Krista. How are you?” Sean asked, his full attention tuned in. “You look well.”

“Oh thanks. Yeah, I’m eating my Wheaties.”

“You still run by the beach?”

“I do, indeed, sir. Why?”

He shrugged, “So you are John’s new favorite.”

“Yeah, about that. What was the deal with telling him about the Sue comment? You realized that was not for his ears, right?”

“I told him about calling me a womanizer,” Sean’s comment was laced with a twinge of aggression.

“Yes, but that’s a known fact and you were peppering me for information, so you deserved it. Talking crap about a Junior VP is a different matter altogether.”

“The distinction is hard to grasp. But I told him because that’s his favorite song. He finds it hilarious. More so because of his last name, of course.”

“Oh. So he wasn’t mad?”

“Actually, he finds it a good sign that you know the song at all.”

“Who doesn’t?”

“Among your age group? A great many.”

Krista fell silent, not knowing where to go from that dead end. Sean continued to look at her like he expected something. She continued to look back, waiting for comment.

When he didn’t relent his expecting stare, she finally asked, “What?”

He smiled a secret smile, probably mocking her somehow, and looked up as Ray sauntered in.

“Hi lady and gent,” Ray said as he took a seat at the round table in the corner of the office.

Sean got up and followed suit. Krista stalled, wanting to stare at Sean’s butt for as long as possible. When she finally followed she noticed that Ray caught her. She gave a “Can you blame me?” type of shrug to his knowing smile before she giggled and sat down.

“What’d I miss?” Sean asked, looking first to Krista, and then to Ray.

“The inner workings of a woman’s mind, I’m afraid,” Ray said, examining his notes.

Sean smiled another secret smile. “Good. Too complicated for the likes of me.”

“What is?” Marcus asked as he walked in.

“Women,” Sean answered as he nodded hello and beckoned for a following Judy to close the door.

“We aren’t so hard to understand. Just shut up, look pretty and do as we tell you. After that everything will go swimmingly,” Judy said on her way to sit down.