Shifting Michelle's Boundaries (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) by Kelsey Blue Read Free Book Online Page A

enough. Anyway, enough about this. Tell me about Michelle.” Jack winked. “Spare no detail, no matter how obscene.”

Chapter Six
     
    The next day had arrived too soon, and Michelle’s job seemed to be draining what was left of her dwindling energy through her fingertips. She finished writing her third essay of an e-mail of the morning and sat back in her chair, grasping her coffee cup like it was a life preserver. So much for being a graphic artist. These days she spent more time typing than drawing.
    “Only six more hours,” she muttered into her mug.
    Not for the first time, she considered just walking out the front door and never coming back. Maybe stopping at the manager’s office on the way to let her know what she really thought about her. No doubt she’d get a cheer for that, albeit a quiet one. But she wouldn’t. She couldn’t. Bills didn’t pay themselves.
    It wasn’t the worst job in the world, anyway. It certainly wasn’t the best either, but her hours were flexible, the lunch break was long, and she didn’t have to work weekends. Add to that the fact that she could wear pretty much whatever she wanted and it made for a good few reasons to hang around.
    Michelle finished the dregs of her coffee and dumped the cup back onto the desk. Technically she was now on a fifteen-minute break, so the manager couldn’t complain if she checked her e-mails, right? Even so, she peered over the top of her cubicle’s divider before risking it.
    Nothing but e-mails for penis pills and mail-order brides. Was Michelle a gender-neutral name and nobody had told her? She signed out again and went back to her work. She hadn’t really been expecting anything, but she had hoped that maybe a certain man would e-mail again. It was a slim chance, given that the whole point of the website they’d met through was to avoid repeat encounters, but it could happen. Couldn’t it?
    Yeah, right.
    Someone tapped her on the shoulder, and she jumped out of her chair. She spun to find Alison leaning against the corner of her cubicle. She was wearing a very formal-looking pantsuit and had her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail. Not quite how Michelle usually saw her.
    “Hey, cutie.”
    “What are you doing here?” Michelle asked.
    “I’ve got a job interview!” Alison bounced up and down. “How cool would that be?”
    “But you’re not an artist.”
    She rolled her eyes. “Secretaries don’t need to be.”
    “Oh, right.” Michelle grinned. “Sorry, bit frazzled today.”
    “Wonder why.” Alison winked and headed off toward the manager’s office. “Lunch?”
    “Sure. See you then.”
    Michelle watched her enter the office and close the door behind her. Now that would make for a more entertaining work day, certainly. Better lunch breaks, too.
    She turned back to her computer, but Alison’s sarcastic comment about Craig had got her mind whirring again, and she couldn’t focus on what she doing. Maybe she should make the first move. A quick e-mail to the guy, asking if he wanted to get a drink sometime. It couldn’t hurt to ask.
    Unless he said no. After all, he hadn’t seemed interested in anything else last night, had he? Once the fun was over, there had been no real attempt at conversation from either of them. She’d washed up, dressed, and left. He hadn’t tried to stop her.
    Gah. Why is this stuff so hard?
    Her lunch break came far too slowly, but once it did a friendly face was waiting for her beside her cubicle. Alison was all smiles, but refused to divulge any information until they were sitting at one of the tables outside a local coffee shop.
    “Well?” Michelle asked. “The suspense is killing me.”
    “I got the job!”
    “That’s great, Ally!” She leant over the table to hug her. “When do you start?”
    “Tomorrow morning. They were in dire need, apparently. It’s only temporary at the moment, but I’ll take what I can get.”
    The waiter appeared, and they both ordered sandwiches and