Hot, sweet office romance with D/S elements between boss H and his assistant h. This book had some of my pet peeves so I'm rating it lower than I could have.
Story: h starts working for H, a brilliant, self-made businessman/ stand-up guy;and is attracted. H is already in a loving relationship which seems headed towards marriage, so though h pines, she tries to distract herself by dating.
My peeve here is the author made h out to be one of those women with sh!tty taste in men - she finds cheaters, men who live with their mom, men who expect her to pay, abusers etc. I think this a technique authors use so the H looks like a God by contrast! Its insulting to women and their judgement and even to men as a whole - I wish author had written the h choosing decent men, maybe that they parted bcos they simply weren't right for each other.
In the H's case that does happen, the H breaks up with the ex (who he was in love with) as he is highly attracted to the h. But then when he is single he doesn't make a move on h. He is a Dom and so his need for kink is more important than being with h, so though H and the h become friends, he continues dating women in the scene for years, even bringing the women to his office - when all he had to do was have a single conversation with the h!
If he had he'd have found that the h had been extremely curious about D/S since she was a teenager and had tried to talk ber boyfriends into experimenting, but so far none of them were interested.
So now h is flirting online with a new guy and the H finds out about it. As usual h is interested in learning about being a submissive. The H knows that this guy actually is a bad Dom and offers the h one night to introduce her to kink, its more a friendly offer than anything - he even gives her the alternative option of introducing her to another Dom, a safer , saner one.
The h of course is all in and they have a hot few hours in H's office. When H does aftercare, h realises that he has the aftercare stuff in his office and when asked H admits indirectly that he has played with many others in his office - some just like her that he introduced to BDSM. That made me cringe:/ So when the h was sitting in his sofa or his desk every workday( as his assistant) the H had probably boinked or spanked or eaten out other women just a few hours ago in there??! I was so glad right then that the h had dated and not waited around frozen for this guy!
h is obviously upset and runs away and H goes after her and h admits she wants more than one day and H is all in and they get together.
I wasn't so sure about the H. It seemed to me he wanted the h only on his own terms. She did all the work and admitted her feelings. If the h had never outed herself as kinky or had chosen a good Dom or even gone with the H's other option, it seemed to me the H would have continued with the status quo. h just didn't seem like a huge priority to him and he didn't act like a man in love, who'd move mountains to get his woman. I couldn't buy it.
3 stars.