From Boardroom to Bedroom

“This isn’t a date.”

“Of course not. You know I don’t date employees.” Nigel quirked a brow. “Did I imply it was?”

“Actually, yes.”

He laughed and shrugged. “I like your company, both professionally and personally. You’re not immune to all of this, either.”

There went those nerves again. And when he’d toyed with the ends of her hair? Revved up all of her sexual urges with the simplest of ways. Still, he didn’t get involved with his staff, or so he kept saying, and she couldn’t throw away her virginity on a man she was lying to and essentially using.

Except, she wanted to. Mercy how she wanted to.

She was so out of her league here. The flirting, the charm... She was a complete innocent in every sense of the word.

“Dating would certainly complicate things,” she finally stated. “I mean, I’m only working for you temporarily and for all you know I have a boyfriend back in Texas.”

her knuckles, and stared directly into

employees, but he hadn’t said anything about making said employees ache with

man in Texas, then he’s

that low British accent had her toes curling in her Ferragamo pumps. There

on all

woman I worked

Until now.

and red flags waving in her mind. If this were another time, another place, if she could show him her true

could they build anything real between them now? She couldn’t keep up the facade forever, and

and I know this is last minute but...” That thumb

“Nigel, I—”

send my personal stylist to your office tomorrow morning,” he went on. “Choose anything you want and I’ll make sure hair

getting a makeover to go out and be draped on the arm of the

on her, or the way he kept looking at her and touching her, they’d have had her on the jet back to Texas