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“But I have my laptop.”
“Yes, and you’ve been rubbing your neck for the last two days. Your posture using it is awful, and I can’t let it continue, so here.” He patted the top of the box. “I don’t have any meetings until later, so let’s get it set up. I have a cable to connect it to your laptop.”
“For two screens?”
“For two screens.”
I pressed my hand to my chest. “It’s like a dream come true.”
“You’re a simple woman to please, aren’t you?”
“Well, as you said, I’ve been rubbing my neck for the last two days. This screen is so small.”
“That’s a seventeen-inch laptop, Chloe.”
“And my monitor in the office is thirty-four. That makes my laptop small,” I countered, pushing my chair back.
“Good thing I bought the right size, then.” He loosened his tie and pulled it over his head, then tossed it on his desk and undid the first three buttons of his shirt. He looked down to undo the buttons on his sleeves and roll them up to his elbows, and I blinked at him.
Buttons undone far enough that I could glimpse his dark chest hair? Shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows? Messy hair after he ran his fingers through it?
What kind of fresh horny hell was this?
“Chloe. I need some scissors.” He rapped his knuckles against my desk. “What are you staring at?”
I jerked myself out of my momentary, misplaced thirst for my boss and opened my drawer. I grabbed the scissors and handed them over. “I was wondering why you appear to be undressing in the middle of the workday, sir.”
“Did that warrant such an intense gaze, Miss St. James?”
“Forgive me. I was momentarily horrified at the prospect of seeing you naked.”
Theodore put the scissors back on the desk and looked up at me. “It appears that our cohabitation is little more than repeated humbling for me.”
“I’m glad to be of service.”
“Who’s the boss here? You or me?”
I paused, tilting my head to the side. “That’s you, of course, sir.”
“Don’t think I didn’t notice you pausing then.” He stood up, pulling the screen out of the box. “Move this box for me.”
I walked around to him and pulled the box away. As he laid the screen down on the empty part of my desk, I dug around in the box for the instructions and screws before handing them over.
It didn’t take long for Theodore to attach the stand to the monitor, and it only took a few minutes after that to get it in place on my desk and connected to my laptop.
Just like that, I had a human workspace again.
The screens we had in the office weren’t even this nice—they were hardly ancient, but this one was curved, and the blue-light filter meant the screen was easy on the eyes.
“Hmm.” Theodore grabbed the back of my chair and leant forwards, looming over me from behind. “That’s a better screen than I thought it was.”
My heart thumped in my chest. “You’re rather close, sir.”
“Am I?” There was an almost teasing note to his voice, and I curled my toes inside my slippers.
Yes.
He was close.
