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But she wasn’t the type to pretend. She faced issues head-on. “I’m not sorry for talking to you last night. That was the best conversation of my life. I’m sorry for forgetting who you are.”
“Who I am?”
“You’re a rock star. The biggest in the world. And I talked to you like we were friends. I forgot how much is at stake for you to open up to me the way you did, and I promise I won’t make the same mistake again, boss.” She gave him a saucy smile.
But instead of an eye roll over calling him boss, his features softened into…yearning. He wantedmore, too.
It took every ounce of restraint she had to keep her mouth shut and her feet from moving her down the hall and into his arms.
I want you, Bex. So much it’s killing me to pretend.
But he wasn’t giving into his heart, and so she wouldn’t, either.
“I’m nosy and pushy,” she said. “And I clearly don’t have boundaries. But I’ll be better.”
He held her gaze for an excruciatingly long moment. So long, she had time to consider all the possible scenarios.
He’s firing me.
He’s going to take me right here in the hallway of this bus.
He’ll ask me to get my assignments from Martin from now on.
Instead, with utter sincerity, he said, “You’re perfect just as you are.”
And then he turned and got swallowed up in the darkness at the end of the hall.
