His bodyguard

~Desires~

Sophia pulled her wrist out of Harry's grasp and ran towards the entrance of the door. She was about to open it when Leonard showed up. She quickly endeavored to fix her appearance by pulling up her jacket and putting on an act like everything was fine, but unknown to her, Leonard had overheard the conversation between her and Harry.

“Is everything alright with you?”, Leonard queried.

“Yes, everything is fine. Why do you ask?”, Sophia responded with an awkward smile and turned to glance at Harry.

“Why are you here, Leo? Aren't you supposed to be with Avner, protecting him from harm?”, Harry cut into their conversation to stop Leonard from snooping further.

“He forgot this”, Leonard said as he walked up to Avner's desk and picked up a flash drive lying on the side of the MacBook.

He picked up the flash drive and bid them goodbye before leaving their presence. After he left, Harry had a frown on his face as he turned around to face Sophia. It was not hard to guess from his appearance that he was pissed at her. He moved closer to her and began trailing his fingers through her hair while he conversed with her.

“Sophie, Sophie, Sophie”, Harry called softly and cackled evilly.

Sophia whimpered as she looked at him, afraid of what he was about to do to her.

“I am trying my best to be a good guy. Don't push me to the threshold of my limits. Remember revenge has no expiry date”.

Harry stopped trailing his fingers through her hair. He smiled warmly like he had not just frightened her and placed a kiss on her cheeks that were already wet with tears, he told her that she could leave as he was done conversing with her.

She sprinted out of the office instantly, heading to the elevator door as she wiped her tears off.

She kept on pressing various buttons on the elevator vehemently, as she preferred not to stay a second longer within the same proximity as Harry.

While Sophia was battling with the buttons on the elevator, Leonard stood in a corner watching her. He kept on replaying the conversation between her and Harry as he watched, wondering why Sophia looked scared of her cousin and what both of them may be concealing about Harry's personality.

“I will have to get to the root of this”, Leonard swore out loud before going back to where the meeting was held.

“You certainly took your time to get this flash drive”, Avner criticized Leonard the second he stepped into the boardroom. Leonard ignored him and gave him the flash drive and went to stand beside him.

Avner glared at Leonard, his eyes were instructing Leonard to move away from his side. Although Leonard understood why his boss was staring at him, he feigned cluelessness and still stood in the same position not moving an inch, which led to Avner's inflammation with his attitude, but he ignored and began the meeting with the regional managers after he fixed the flash on his iPad.

Leonard stood like a statue as he stared at Avner fully focused on the meeting and bringing solutions to each crisis his company was facing in various branches. He had a glamorous smile on his face as he subconsciously adored his boss in front of him.

Avner turned his attention towards Leonard and took an observation of how he was smiling. He became suspicious of him at the same time, worried that he might have made some blunders while addressing the managers, which was the reason behind Leonard's dubious smile.

“Is there a show going on that I'm not aware of?”, Avner inquired with the urge to understand the reason behind Leonard's smile.

“Not at all sir, I was just admiring how you provide solutions to whatever crisis that's been thrown at you by your managers”, Leonard replied, without caring for the presence of his father and the managers.

“I would kill to have a partner like you. Has anyone told you how attractive you look when you turn into your work mode?”, Leonard indicated flirtatiously.

Avner's cheek suddenly became red after hearing those words from Leonard. He didn't know when he smiled a flirtatious smile, subconsciously licking his lips as he glanced at Leonard.

Stephen Sullivan glanced back and forth between his son and his young boss, attempting to discern what was going on, and then it dawned on him.

“s**t!”, he muttered as he discovered that whatever was going on between the two of them was more than just mere friendship, and now he understood why both of them had been acting the way they had been acting towards one another. He cleared his throat to break the little moment they had going on.

“Where were we?”, Avner asked as he came back to his senses. Scanning through his iPad like his soul was locked in it.

Stephen chuckled and shook his head before he continued with what he was saying.

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They were finally done with the meeting. Avner bid farewell to the managers and asked Jules to hand them the gifts he had asked her to prepare for them earlier before he took his leave with his newly hired bodyguard following behind. As they both walked to his office, Avner took notice of Leonard humming the song that was playing in the background. He was amazed that Leonard still remembered that song as it was him who had introduced it to him.

“How do you still remember this song?”, Avner asked.

Those weren't the words he had wanted to say, but he couldn't help it, as he didn't want it to look like he was being soft or was opening up to Leonard.

“Why would you ask such a question?”, Leonard replied.

“Do you still have the song on your phone? If yes, then, you need to delete it because I see no reason why you should have it in the first place. We are no longer friends nor do we have anything to talk about, so why keep the song on your phone? It's not like it's significant to you”, Avner expressed scathingly.

Avner was the portrayal of pettiness. He was bent on making sure he and Leonard had nothing connecting them, he didn't care if it was a song or a football game.

He stopped walking and turned over to Leonard, and then he began searching all over his body looking for his phone. He was bent on deleting that song from Leonard's phone.

“What are you doing? You are invading my privacy, Avner”, Leonard pointed out, but Avner gave him deaf ears and continued with his search for the phone.

Leonard was in disbelief at his sentiment. He couldn't believe it. He began laughing as everything seemed funny to him, and he found Avner insanely cute at the same time.

Leonard seized this opportunity Avner had provided for him. He took off, running around the floor and making Avner chase after him. The whole place was suddenly filled with laughter from both sides as they ran around the office corridor.

“Avner, stop!”, Leonard let out, attempting to catch his breath, even though he said those words he didn't mean them as he wanted Avner to continue chasing after him. Ever since he arrived, this was the first time Avner had laughed with him, and it felt good.

Leonard continued to run to get away from Avner, he ran into his office. He was about to close the door when Avner obstructed it with his foot and pushed his way into the office. Leonard strode backward slowly until he reached the wall.

“You have nowhere to run to”, Avner locked the door behind him and walked towards him, asking him to hand over his phone.

Avner walked slowly until he was eventually standing before Leonard while Leonard's back pressed sharply into the edge of the wall.

“Hand over your phone”, he whispered, breathing in short pants from the exercise they had just had.

“Or what ?”, Leonard asked, also breathing fast.

Avner smiled and moved his hands to Leonard's pants as he began to feel for his phone. As his hands traveled the length of Leonard's pants, the only thing he could feel was Leonard's muscled thighs.

Avner caressed the first one and moved on to the second one. His gaze was cast down because he could not bear to look at Leonard when he was touching him like that, while Leonard was grateful that Avner was not looking up to see how aroused he was getting just because Avner's fingers were traipsing about his body.

The second pocket proved futile, which left the back pockets and, for some reason, Avner's heart was racing faster than when they were chasing each other.

His hands moved from Leonard's thighs to his butt, and Avner found himself unable to regulate his breathing.

Leonard used his fingers to lift Avner's face by the chin, and they finally looked at each other, each of them noticing how turned on the other was as they stared at their eyes that they were struggling to keep open.

Leonard pulled Avner forward and locked their lips. Avner pushed himself off immediately and Leonard pulled him right back. This time, it was Avner that grabbed Leonard and took the lead in the kiss.

A banging on the door interrupted them before they could get into it.

“Babe? Leonard? What are you guys doing there? Open the f.cking the door, or I will pull it down,” Harry's voice yelled from outside the room.