“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 directly into her eyes so

he didn’t date employees, but he hadn’t

have a man in Texas, then he’s a fool for letting you

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

you hit on all of your

any woman I worked with,” he

Until now.

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

reality was she was only here to take down her ex-step-monster. She’d gone 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

and I know this is last minute but...” That thumb continued to stroke her hand and he eased just a touch closer.

“Nigel, I—”

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

she living in some warped version of Pretty Woman? Turning into someone she wasn’t and getting a makeover to go out and be draped on the arm of the hottest man she’d

hitting on her, or the way he kept looking at her and touching

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