“Leave it, Callie. I can restage the wall without you hovering.”
“You keep putting the product shot first,” I said, and I stayed planted at the review table. “The client asked for the claim line to lead. If you walk out now, that board goes up wrong.”
Dex had his jacket half on. The tenth-floor office had already thinned to carpet hum and a far copier. Only the corridor lights and the review room overheads were still bright.
“The walkthrough is in ninety minutes,” he said. “Helen will be here with Grier. I am not fighting you in front of them.”
“Then stay and fight me now.”
He looked at the door, then at the unfinished sequence on the wall. I could have let him go. I did not. I set my tote under the table and picked up the claim card myself.
The jacket landed on a chair. He came back to the wall without another speech, which was how Dex conceded when the work still mattered more than his pride.
Staying for the Wrong Board
We stood too close because the foam boards were hung in a tight grid. His sleeve brushed my wrist each time he shifted a panel. The disagreement was not loud anymore. It had narrowed to order, weight, and who got the first glance.
“Claim, then proof, then the pack shot,” I said. “If Grier reads the picture first, he will argue price.”
“If he reads your line first, he will argue tone.” Dex’s mouth was almost at my temple. “You wrote it sharp on purpose.”
“I wrote it true.”
His fingers paused on the same corner I was holding. Neither of us let go. The office around us stayed ordinary: a blinking router, a plant gone dusty, the glass that faced the empty hall. Ordinary did not stop the heat that had been sitting under our meetings for months.
I turned my face. He did not step back. The kiss started as a mistake and then it was not. His mouth was warm and impatient, and I answered it because I had already chosen the room over the elevator.
When we broke, he kept his hands on my waist. “Tell me if this is a bad idea.”
“It is a bad idea,” I said. “I still want it. Do you?”
“Yes.” One word, no bargain attached to the job. That was enough.
I pulled his shirt from his belt while he kissed my throat. The cream blouse came open under his hands, two buttons, then three. Cool air hit my bra. He made a low sound and put his mouth on the top of my breast through the fabric, then tugged the cup down and sucked my nipple until my knee bumped the table leg.
“Dex.”
He lifted his head. I pushed him back just far enough to get his belt open. His cock was already hard when I reached into his trousers. I stroked him once, slow, and watched his jaw go tight. He hiked my skirt to my hips and found me wet through my underwear. His fingers slid under the cotton and into me without ceremony, two of them, curling until I had to hold the table.
We were still standing in the review room, still arguing with our bodies instead of the boards. I shoved my underwear down and stepped out of one side. He lifted me onto the edge of the table. A marker rolled and hit the floor. I did not care.
He got a condom from his wallet, tore it, and rolled it on while I watched. I hooked my heels around him and pulled him in. The first push stretched me, thick and sudden. I breathed out against his collar and took the rest.
He fucked me in a hard, even rhythm that made the table tap the wall. My blouse hung open. His shirt was still on, bunched, the light blue cloth darkening with sweat at the spine. I held the back of his neck and met him, not quiet, not careful about the glass.
“Harder,” I said, and he gave it, gripping my hip so the next thrust landed deep. Pleasure stacked fast. I was close enough that my voice broke on his name.
That was when the corridor changed.
A Guard Passed the Glass
A flashlight swept the far carpet. Keys chimed. A man’s voice, bored and carrying, told someone on a radio that ten was clear except the review lights.
Dex froze inside me. I bit his shoulder to keep from making a sound. The guard’s beam crossed the glass, snagged on the hanging boards, and moved on. Footsteps continued toward the east stair.
We stayed locked like that for three breaths. My pulse was in my throat and between my legs. He was still hard, still sheathed, still in me.
“We should stop,” he whispered.
I looked at the open hall, then at the dark proofing room across it, the windowless one we used for color checks. Stopping would have been the clean choice. I did not want clean. I wanted him finished, and I wanted a wall that could not be seen from the corridor.
“Not stop,” I said. “Move.”
He withdrew carefully. I dragged my underwear up enough to walk. We crossed the hall fast, shoes muted on the carpet, my blouse still unbuttoned under my palm. He shut the proofing door. No glass. One overhead. The color-correct screen slept black.
The interruption had changed the shape of it. In the review room we had been reckless. In here we were close and quiet on purpose. He turned me to the counter, lifted my skirt again, and slid back into me from behind with a sound he swallowed against my hair.
I braced on the laminate. Each thrust rubbed me against the edge. His hand found my clit and stayed there, circling in time, not fancy, not slow. The condom kept the slide slick and contained. I pushed back on him because the near miss had not killed the want. It had concentrated it.

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“Then don’t.”
He drove in and stayed, grinding, and the pressure on my clit broke me. I came with my mouth open against my wrist, shaking, inner muscles pulling at him. He followed with three uneven thrusts and a groan he buried in my shoulder, hips tight, holding the condom in place as he finished.
For a minute the only sound was our breathing and the HVAC. He pulled out, tied the condom, and dropped it in the small bin under the counter. I stayed bent a second longer, then stood and fixed my bra.
My hands were not steady on the blouse buttons. His were not steady on his belt. We dressed in the ugly light like people who still had a client, which we did.
“Your collar,” I said.
He turned it down. I still missed a button on my own shirt and only caught it when I saw myself in the black screen. I redid it. The skirt sat right. The underwear sat damp. None of that would show if I kept my jacket off the chair in the other room and my face ordinary.
We went back for the boards because the work had not finished itself. The claim card was still in the wrong slot from when I had grabbed it. Dex hung the pack shot third without comment. I set the line first. The argument had burned out of us. What remained was the sequence Grier needed to see.
He looked at me over the last panel. Not tender. Not sorry. Just awake in a way that would be a problem if I stared too long.
The review phone on the credenza rang once, a short internal chirp, then the speaker clicked.
Reception said, “Helen is in the lobby with Mr. Grier. They came early. I am sending them up.”
Downstairs Too Early
Dex swore under his breath and grabbed his jacket. I snatched the marker off the floor and capped it. We were decent. We were not composed. The elevator dinged at the far end before we had even reached the hall.
Helen stepped out with Grier in a gray suit, already talking about traffic. She saw both of us still on the floor and her smile went professional and thin.
“You two stayed,” she said. “Good. We can start in the review room.”
Grier shook Dex’s hand, then mine. My palm was too warm. I kept my voice on the claim line because that was the job I had refused to abandon. Dex stood half a step behind my shoulder, collar straight, the smell of the proofing room still faintly on him if anyone had leaned in.
Nobody leaned in. The boards were in the order I wanted. Helen gestured us through the glass like nothing in the office had happened except overtime.
I walked in first, sat, and opened the walkthrough. Dex took the seat beside me and did not look at the table edge. The client started reading from the claim, which meant the wall had won. The rest of the hour belonged to the work, and to the fact that we now had to sit through it knowing exactly why we had been late to the lobby.
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