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.”

his thumb along the top of her knuckles, and stared

but he hadn’t said anything about making said

a man in Texas, then he’s

toes curling in her Ferragamo pumps.

all of

never made a pass at any woman I worked with,” he explained. “I’ve

Until now.

and red flags waving in her mind. If this were another time,

to drastic measures to do so and she couldn’t get sidetracked now—not when she’d promised her brothers. And besides, how could they build anything real between them now? She couldn’t

not a big deal and I know this is last minute but...” That

“Nigel, I—”

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

she living in some warped version of Pretty Woman? Turning into someone she wasn’t and getting a makeover to go out and be

at her and touching her,