Betrayed Chapter 10

"What?" I questioned firmly.

She struggled to free herself, avoiding my gaze.

"Let go of me!" she shrieked. "Go find some other bimbo to toy with."

"You are not going anywhere until you tell me what this is all about," I intoned evenly.

"I can't believe," she wept, "that is all I mean to you after everything we've been through and done together. 'Cheap, meaningless sex?' So, I was just the little office slut all this time. I am such an idiot. Well, you are right about one thing; I feel really cheap."

I uttered the only intelligent thing that came to mind at that moment.

"Huh?"

"If you have no objections," she hissed, "I'll just move back to STG Monday morning. I'll send Debbie up here to replace me. You'll like her; she bends over in a light breeze."

"TIME OUT!" I roared – well, with as much authority as my voice had anymore.

I yanked down, hard, on her arms. She dropped into her chair like a sack of potatoes. I perched on the front edge of her desk, glaring down at her. She glared right back, defiantly.

"What I was trying to say was," I pronounced carefully, marshalling my thoughts as I went, "haven't you ever wanted to find someone who really meant something to you? You made it clear to me, right from the beginning; you could have any man you want. I'm sorry if this sounds shallow of me, but I'm tired of being just another of your casual conquests. I know it's only been three months since I separated from Susan, but I want – need – something more than that now."

Angie stared at me, mouth agape, then shook her head as though trying to clear it.

"Let me get this straight," she growled with equal slow precision. "You thought you were just another casual fuck to me?"

I nodded. The slap came out of nowhere, stunning me.

"How could you?" she wailed. "As good as you look, as sexy a slut as you have become, you can be such a man sometimes!"