“You can keep the station if you want to explain a trip hazard to facilities,” Mateo said, already shrugging into his jacket beside the demo kiosk on our office floor. “I’m not staying to redraw tape lines after a walkthrough that already failed.”
I didn’t move from the taped square. “The client is coming here, Mateo. Not into a conference room. If we pull this station, the whole activation looks like we hid.”
He laughed once, not kindly. “The whole activation looks like we ignored a yellow flag. I’m going downstairs. You can email me your stubbornness.”
The rest of the experiential team had already left for the satellite site. Around the show floor, the open office had gone slack in that late-afternoon way, monitors sleeping, the glass toward the lobby still bright with Sacramento sun. He took two steps toward the elevator bank.
I stayed where I was.
“If you walk, the station stays exactly like this,” I said. “I’ll tell Lenora we reviewed it and you left.”
I Stayed on the Office Floor
Mateo turned. The jacket hung off one shoulder. For a second he looked like he might actually go. Then he came back across the office carpet, stopping close enough that I could smell the coffee he had burned through the walkthrough.
“You don’t get to use my name as a threat on a floor I own the safety call for,” he said. “We’re colleagues. You don’t file me.”
“Then don’t leave in the middle of a fight you started.”
His mouth tightened. “You want this station because you designed the flow, not because it’s safe. Own that.”
“I want it because the client walks this office, not a borrowed conference room with bad light. Own that.”
We had been snapping since the walkthrough ended, ever since Lenora’s note about the corner radius and the cable run. He wanted the kiosk dragged into a side room. I wanted the live demo where visitors would actually see it.
He dropped the jacket over a task chair that wasn’t his. “Show me the clearance again. If I still hate it, I’m calling facilities myself.”
I stepped into the taped square and put my palm on the kiosk’s side panel. He came in after me, which was the mistake. The square was built for a guest and a host, not two stubborn adults who had spent a year arguing over vinyl and sightlines.
His chest brushed my shoulder as he crouched to look at the cable cover. I should have moved. I didn’t.
“See?” I said. “The run is under the ramp. Nobody clips it unless they try.”
He stood. Too close. “People try. That’s the point.” His voice had gone lower, the walkthrough bark gone out of it.
Looking up was unavoidable, and his eyes were on my mouth again. The office hummed with the air system and nothing else. Months of standing too near at mockups sat between us like another piece of tape.
“You’re staying to win,” he said.
“I’m staying because you don’t get the last word in here either.”
His hand went to the banner stand to shift it an inch, the same correction he always made, and my hip met his thigh. Neither of us stepped back. The kiosk’s metal edge pressed the small of my back.
Mateo exhaled through his nose. “Sienna.”
That was all. My name, not a safety lecture. I put my fingers in the open collar of his charcoal shirt and pulled. His mouth landed on mine hard enough to click teeth, then softer, tasting coffee and the argument we hadn’t finished.
He broke the kiss first, forehead against mine. “If this is a bad idea, say it.”
“Don’t stop,” I said, and kissed him again so he wouldn’t turn it into another meeting.
Behind the Client Banners
We moved without grace. The printed client banners made a cheap wall between the kiosk and the empty desks, enough cover for anyone glancing from the elevator bank and not enough for anyone who meant to look. His jacket stayed on the chair. My heels scraped the taped line.
Mateo’s hands found the buttons of my cream blouse and worked them wrong, skipping one, cursing under his breath when the fabric caught. I laughed against his throat, then bit, and the sound he made went straight down my spine. The office air felt cooler on my skin as the blouse opened.
“You’ve been watching my hands all morning,” I said.
“You’ve been watching me lose,” he said, and palmed my breast through the bra like he was still measuring clearance.
The bra unhooked with less fight than the walkthrough. He bent and took a nipple into his mouth, wet and insistent, and my head tipped back against the kiosk. Fingers slid up my skirt, found the heat already there, and pressed through cotton until I made a noise I would have hated in a stand-up.
“Off,” I said, tugging at his belt.
Slacks opened. His cock was thick against my palm, already wet at the head. I stroked him once, slow, and his hips jerked like I’d yanked a cable. He caught my wrist.
“Wait.” He dug a condom from his wallet, tore it, rolled it on with a concentration that looked almost like the safety call. Then his mouth was on mine again.
He hooked my underwear aside rather than fighting the skirt. One of my legs hooked his hip. The first push stretched me in a bright, specific ache, and I grabbed the banner stand to keep from sliding. He held still, breathing against my cheek, giving me the second I needed.
“Move,” I told him.
He did. Short, deep strokes because the kiosk didn’t allow a longer rhythm, the kind of pace you use when you still expect a door. My other heel came off. The remaining one hung from my toes until it dropped onto the carpet with a small, stupid sound.

Office Slave Kneeling After We Pushed the Walkthrough
Grant asked me to keep or push the client hour, and my answer emptied our office bay. What followed was our private slave game against frosted glass, cut short when the directory still showed me as host.Read related storyMateo lifted me enough that my ass sat on the kiosk’s side shelf, the one meant for tablets. The new angle made him go deeper, and I wrapped both legs around him, skirt bunched at my waist. His shirt was still on, charcoal fabric damp at the chest. I raked it up so I could put my mouth on his collarbone.
“This floor,” he muttered, almost laughing, almost groaning. “You and this damn floor.”
“You came back,” I said.
He thrust harder for that, and the kiosk bumped the banner stand. Printed fabric shivered. My nails found his back through the shirt. Heat gathered low and mean, the kind that made my thighs shake against his hips.
When I came, I bit his shoulder to keep the sound in the banners. He followed with a broken breath, grinding through it, one hand braced beside my hip so we wouldn’t take the whole station down. For a few seconds the office was only the air system and our breathing.
He pulled out carefully, tied the condom, and dropped it in the under-kiosk bin we used for cable scraps. Not romantic. Practical. My legs felt unreliable when they found the carpet again.
The blouse went on crooked. He noticed and still didn’t fix the skipped button, which felt like another unfinished argument. I stepped back into one heel and had to hunt the other under the ramp.
The Inspector Hit the Lobby
Lobby glass flared brighter than late sun. The automatic lights had kicked on early, the way they did when the front doors opened after hours for a badge that wasn’t ours.
Mateo went still with his belt only half done. “Lenora.”
“She’s early.”
We heard her voice before we saw her, talking to someone in the vestibule about corner radius and the evening pass. I shoved my heel on, smoothed the skirt, and failed to do anything useful with my hair. His shirt tail hung out on one side.
We stepped out from the banners as if we had been checking sightlines. Lenora Briggs came through the inner office doors with a tablet and a man in a facilities polo. She took us in the way inspectors take in cable covers: fast, complete, unkind.
“I thought the team cleared out,” she said. “You two still fighting the station?”
“Still reviewing clearance,” Mateo said, and his voice almost held.
Lenora’s gaze snagged on my misbuttoned blouse, then on the dropped heel mark in the tape. She didn’t smile. “The live station is a trip hazard as built. I flagged it this morning. If it’s still here when the client walks, I’m writing it up against the floor, not against a conference room.”
The satellite team wasn’t here to argue. I was rumpled and obvious, and Mateo had come back only because I had refused to leave. There was no second speech that would make the kiosk look clean.
“We’ll pull it,” I said.
Mateo’s head turned. For a flicker he looked like he might fight me in front of her. Then he nodded once, jaw tight, and started peeling the tape off the carpet with his bare hands.
Lenora made a note. The polo waited. Down the office, the elevator chimed again, ordinary and loud. I picked up Mateo’s jacket from the chair because leaving it would have been another story, and I followed him along the taped line we were about to destroy.
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