Idolatry

During the day Win tried to ignore the electricity leaping between them but Cole didn’t. Whenever she was within reach he would draw her to him. Win wished she could just reach out and touch him in the same way but she couldn’t do it. 

At one point she was standing next to him showing him a report.  He was sitting in his chair pulled up to his desk. She could feel his eyes on her as she showed him the final draft. Straightening when she had finished her explanation, Cole’s eyes moved to the report. Win looked down at the back of his neck. His dark hair just skimmed his collar and she longed to push her fingers into the silky strands. 

Cole must have sensed her regard as he turned his head and searched her eyes. “What?” he said.

“Nothing” she said shaking her head and looking away.

“No, it’s not nothing” he said as if reading her mind and when her eyes came back to meet his, his gaze locked on hers.

“I want to touch you” she admitted in a voice that was not much above a whisper.

“So do it” he said “I want that too.”

“It feels wrong” she said.

“It doesn’t feel wrong to me” he coaxed. “Please?” he added after a pause.

Win lifted her hand and slowly moved it forward placing it on the back of his neck before lifting his hair and scrapping her nails across his scalp.

Cole turned his head back around so he was facing away from her and she felt a shiver pass through him. “I want you to touch me whenever you feel like it Win” he said.

“I’ll try” she said. 

Over the next couple of days Win got better at touching him voluntarily. She was still a little unsure of what was happening between them but she didn’t have the will to stop it now, not even to save herself. Each evening they would have dinner together after work and on Saturday night they went back to her place after they’d eaten. It was the first time they had been alone together except for in the office. After she had let them in they sat down on her couch together. Before long they were kissing and for the first time it went beyond that as hands began to wander.