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She puts her hands on her hips. “No, I won’t.”
“Right. Then you won’t care that this stays here.”
Mallory squints at me as she drops her hands. “I don’t like you when you’re pushy, Boss Lady.”
“Boss Lady?” Kai steps into the room and flashes Mallory a smile that could land him a starring role in a toothpaste commercial.
Mallory lets out a low whistle as she scans the werewolf with her gaze. “Day-um. We don’t need to fix this guy’s profile. I’ll just take him home and call him mine.”
Kai glares at her. “I belong to Abby.”
“Whoa.” Mallory throws up her hands and grins at me. “My mistake.”
I shake my head in reply with a stern expression while stopping myself from snapping back. I let out a heavy sigh. “What do you need, Kai?”
“Can I talk to you when you have a minute?”
Mallory says, “I was just leaving.” She slides a hand down Kai’s arm as she moves past him. “Too bad, outlaw, we’d have had some fun.” My heart stops a second, and the urge to punch Mallory overwhelms me. She has no right to touch him! “If you change your mind, the name’s Mallory.”
Kai doesn’t take his gaze off of me as he barks out an order to her. “Shut the door on your way out.” Once Mallory is gone, he steps closer to me with a predatory look in his eyes. “I heard you have a coding problem.”
I step behind my desk to put it between us, and the laptop Mallory was using thumps when I set it down. I’m not sure how Kai knows or why it would concern him. “We do, but I’m sure it’ll get sorted out.”
When Kai reaches toward me, I step back. But he was lunging for the laptop and lifts it up with one large hand. “Let me take a look.”
“What? No.” I reach for the computer, but he lifts it above my head as if I’m a child.
“Why not?”
“Because for one, you don’t work for me. And two, if Mallory couldn’t figure it out, then it’s too—” I realize I’m about to insult his intelligence, and since he’s holding the laptop, I switch gears. “I’m sure it’s time consuming, and I couldn’t let you spend your night doing something I’m not authorized to pay you to do.”
Kai’s sexy grin disappears. “You don’t think I can do it.”
“It’s not that. I swear.”
“No?” He plops down in the chair Mallory just vacated, and it groans under his massive body. “Then you won’t mind if I take a look.”
I bristle at the tactic I just used with Mallory. “Kai. I don’t know.”
He ignores me as his fingers move smoothly over the keys, and I’m reminded of his graceful table manners. I never would have guessed he was a programmer too. This man might be more than a hot body after all. And I decide since he’s working on his own profile, I might as well let him take a shot at fixing it.
As Kai scowls over what he’s seeing, I walk around my desk to peer over his shoulder. I see the usual lines of code. He says, “If you’re going to breathe down my neck, I’m going to lose my focus.”
“Oh.” I step back. “Sorry.” I wander back to my desk and know I should find something to do, but I can’t seem to stop staring at him.
He chuckles.
“What’s so funny?”
“You listed my profession as a personal trainer.”
I recall the conversation I had with Abby about what to put down as a placeholder for his profession. I thought manual labor, but she convinced me that a body like Kai’s doesn’t just happen from a physical job and insisted it must be gym-created. “And that’s funny because?”
“Because I’m the biggest nerd you’ll ever meet.”
Now I chuckle because brilliant men do not look like Kai. “You can’t be serious.”
“Found it.” He types something and then turns to me with the computer held out so I can see the screen. “Want to try me now?”
