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“How is short and slinky different to those?”
“It’s sexy but stealthy about it. There’s a difference.”
“I’ll take your word for it. But sexy of any kind isn’t my highest priority right now.”
“So why’d you buy the shoes? Shoes like that need slutty to pull them off.”
“They were sparkly,” Maggie said. “I was celebrating. Slutty didn’t come into it.”
“Well, it does now. So. You go and dazzle Alex and then we’ll go shopping.”
“I’m supposed to be working.”
“Have you signed a contract yet? No. So he’ll hardly be expecting you to work all day. He asked you in for a meeting, right? Not to come in to work.”
“I guess.”
“See. I’m right. You do meeting, I’ll deliver the precious glove, and then we’ll hit the shops. I can call Shelly and see if she can meet us at Bergdorf.”
“Shelly is working.”
“Ha! Buying dresses is part of her job. She needs to look the part.”
“She hates paying retail though.”
“All the more reason to call her. She can share her latest bargain-hunting secrets.”
Maggie sighed, giving in. It would be easier in the long run. “Fine. Shopping it is. I’ll buy a dress. But don’t go getting any crazy ideas about me and Alex.”
“I don’t need crazy ideas, it’s reality.”
“Hana. Listen. Never. Gonna. Happen.”
“Famous last words,” Hana said as the elevator opened again at the second floor, where the team doctor, Stan Jones—Indy as the guys had dubbed him much to his chagrin—had his suite of treatment rooms, to reveal Alex standing near the fire exit door talking to Lucas and Mal. Just as she spotted him, he threw back his head and laughed, and Maggie felt a traitorous hitch in her pulse.
“Yeah, he’s hideous,” Hana whispered beside her. And as Alex turned and caught sight of them and a smile widened on his face, she added, “And not happy to see you at all.”
“Oh, go give your husband his glove,” Maggie growled. Hana just smirked and gave Alex a little wave as she walked past him and headed off to find Brett.
Maggie stayed where she was, telling herself that Hana was crazy and that Alex was her boss and that was that.
“Right on time,” Alex said as he stepped in to join her. “I thought you might have got stuck in traffic. Mal said there was a pileup on the Verrazano.”
No such luck. “I took the ferry. Are Lucas and Malachi going to join us? I haven’t really met them properly.”
“They’ll come up later. I thought it would be best if it was just the two of us first. Easier to strike a deal that way.”
He should know. “Well, I don’t come cheap,” Maggie said with a crooked smile.
“I didn’t think you would,” Alex said as the doors closed, making the elevator feel suddenly way too small. His dimples flashed. “Nothing worth the trouble ever does.”
“So you think I’m trouble?” The words came out of her mouth before she could stop them. She was half horrified at the vaguely flirty tone to her voice.
Alex cocked his head. “Maybe,” he said. “But then again, I like trouble.”
“Is that why you became a corporate raider?”
“Corporate raider? Wow. You make me sound like I swoop in to buy up companies and strip them for parts.”
