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Right. This will be easy. I’ll just forget all about how hot my new boss is.
I made up my mind to be professional. Then he smiled and all the butterflies took flight in my stomach while my girly parts danced naked around a fire in some kind of weird mating ritual.
Well, that failed spectacularly.
“Let me know if you need anything, Ms. Williams,” Mrs. Bergen said, startling me because I’d absolutely forgotten she was there.
“And if I need anything, Lily?” Mr. Carter asked with a smile playing at his ridiculously sexy lips.
Mrs. Bergen shocked me when she slowly turned to him and narrowed her eyes. “Behave yourself, Gabriel Carter. I’ll be watching.”
Gabe—um, Mr. Carter laughed, and I was mesmerized for a moment. Then my gaze bounced between the two of them, amused by their dynamic. I’d had the impression that Mrs. Bergen was extremely professional, but she’d just threatened her boss, and he’d clearly found it hilarious.
“I’ll be on my best behavior,” Gabe promised. “Scout’s honor.”
Mrs. Bergen harrumphed. “Were you even a Scout?”
“Yes, ma’am. Earned my Eagle in high school.”
I imagined Mrs. Bergen’s expression mirrored mine. I hadn’t thought him serious either, but there was no indication that he was joking. Mrs. Bergen quickly recovered from her shock and smoothed her hair, even though there wasn’t a strand out of place. “Alright then. I’ll be in my office.”
And then there were two.
I was alone with Gabriel Carter, my new boss and the sexiest man I’d ever seen in my entire freaking life. To make matters worse…he was thefirstman I’d ever been attracted to enough to even consider sex. That’s right. I was a twenty-six-year-old virgin. I’d considered that perhaps something was wrong with me but eventually brushed it off as unimportant. Now, it wasveryclear that I had a healthy libido. Of course, it came out of hibernation at the worst possible time, lusting after a man who was the last person I should have a fling with.
Gabe turned his smoldering brown eyes on me, and a shiver skittered down my spine.
I could see this going one of two ways. Either I’d successfully repress my attraction, and this would work very well, or I’d spontaneously combust.
Literally, crash and burn.
