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“What else do you need for your office? Filing cabinets? More chairs? A plant?”
Rena chuckled and shook her head. “I’m all right for now. If I need something, I’ll let you know.”
“You do that.”
We sat together in silence for a while. It was a warm silence, not awkward or strained at all.
“As soon as you’re settled, I’m going to send interviewees to you. I want you to choose my new secretary for me,” I said.
Rena blinked. “You don’t want to go through them yourself?”
“Send me only those you think are suited for the job. But you know the work, how much needs to be done, and what they should be capable of. I trust your judgment.”
Rena beamed at the compliment.
“We’ll make it work,” she said. I liked that she had said “we.” I liked being included in her conversation, being referred to in conjunction with her. It made me feel like we were a team. We were a team now more than we had been for the year she’d worked for me as my secretary.
“I have to get back to my office,” Rena said. “I’m still trying to find my feet.”
I nodded, and she stood. When she walked to the door, I watched her ass swing from side to side. She was so hot. Hot and smart and interesting and funny.
When she closed the door behind her, I cursed. It wasn’t only that I was sexually charged and wanted a release. Again. It was more than that. How had I gotten this involved with her? This wasn’t my style. I cared about her far too much. I wasn’t comfortable with how emotionally invested I was becoming.
She was so young, after all. She could be my daughter. I had to keep control of the situation. She was nothing more than a hot body that I was using to fuck now and then. She was a conquest in a long line of conquests. I was fucking her the way I had fucked all the other women, and when I was done with her, I would move on to the next.
Maybe it was because I’d brought her to Boston with me. Being in a hotel with her had given me an idea of what it would be like to be with her, and it had gotten into my head. But it was bullshit. I was Brent Hooper. I didn’t date. I didn’t keep women around for very long if I kept them around at all, and I sure as shit didn’t get attached.
This was exactly the same as every other time. Rena was adorable and sexy at the same time. She was a minx in the bedroom but shy and reserved in public, which made her feel like a mystery that I got to solve every time I had her alone. But there was no more than that. There couldn’t be.
Rena was exactly the same as every other woman I’d had in my life.
Even as I thought it, I knew I was only lying to myself. Rena was different in every way possible. She was interesting, and I liked spending time with her even if we weren’t fucking. How many women had I been able to say that about before? So many of them had been airheads, and I hadn’t been able to relate to them at all. With Rena, it felt like we could be friends, not just fuck buddies. I felt like if I told her about my life, shared things I was struggling with, she would listen. She would care. She would try to give me advice.
She’d already opened up to me about her sister trying to find her, allowing me on a journey into her private life when it had nothing to do with me.
And she didn’t want my money. That was possibly the one thing that really made an impression on me. Because I had so much money and so many people knew about it, when they looked at me, all they saw were dollar signs. I never knew if people were with me because of me or because of my money.
It was usually the latter. It was why I played my cards so close to my chest. If I didn’t get attached to them, it wouldn’t hurt so fucking much when it turned out I was only good for signing checks.
But not with Rena. She made me feel like she enjoyed my company. She liked me as a person. It irritated me that she wouldn’t let me pay for anything, but at the same time, I respected her for it.
It wasn’t often that someone managed to make me feel special. But there it was.
I tried to focus on my work, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Rena. At first, it was about how amazing she was, but my mind jumped to sex. Rena was incredibly good in bed. She was better than anyone I’d been with before.
