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“I’m calling it—four and five,” Dustin said.
The laughter faded and we slid into work, but I couldn’t erase my smile from the ludicrous game.
I wasn’t quite absorbed in my work when Phillip rolled his chair up next to mine. “You ready to implement what you learned this weekend?”
There was my embarrassment.
“Don’t do that.” Phillip’s voice was kind. He leaned in to rest his forearms on his knees. “It was a learning experience. It was also a lot of fun, and just sex.” He said it so plainly. So simply.
“So... we pretend it didn’t happen?” I wasn’t sure what he was getting at specifically.
He shook his head. “We don’t pretend anything. Except to be fucking in front of a camera. Just don’t be embarrassed by it. Unless you have regrets.”
“Most-definitely-not.” The words tumbled out before I could consider if that level of enthusiasm was appropriate.
The way his soft smile twitched into place, I’d done fine.
Dustin’s phone chimed. “I need to take this. Be right back.”
“Now that we have that out of the way, take the scene you were working on last week, and redo the core positions based on what you’ve learned,” Phillip said.
He made it sound simple, but every time I thought about this weekend, heat flooded me and desire thrummed between my legs. I needed to get that under control or my career here would be a series of heated daydreams punctuated with wrecked panties and nothing getting done. “I don’t know where to start.”
“Pick—do you want to start with the easiest to fix and work your way up, or start with the hardest and get it out of the way?”
“Can I alternate between the two?”
“A little soft and a little rough? Of course.” Phillip sat close enough his leg pressed into mine. He reached past me to grab my mouse, and navigated to the files on the network.
Dustin’s loud sigh interrupted the moment, and I looked up to see him lean against a nearby table. “I’m watching my nieces while Daria is out of town, and Alana’s school just called. I need to take off for a few hours.”
How sweet was it that he had stepped into that role so easily? At least, I assumed based on how casually he talked about it.
“Is everything all right?” I asked at the same time Phillip did.
“Yeah, she’s just— I guess she got her first period.” Dustin finished the sentence quietly.
“First? At her age?” Phillip sounded surprised.
I rolled my eyes. At least they weren’t completely shying away from the topic. “Okay, first of all, don’t you dare say anything like that around her. If she needs supplies—”
“Addie.” Dustin focused on me with a grin. “You should come with me.”
Nope. “Not even for a friend.”
His smile vanished. “We’re not friends?”
“I didn’t mean— That’s not— Of course we are. She already hates that she couldn’t call her mom, I almost guarantee it. If you bring some random stranger—to her—from work because you’re embarrassed to help her yourself…” I’d let him finish the thought.
Dustin scrubbed his face, distorting his sigh. “You’re right. Because you’re brilliant. If she needs supplies?”
“She probably already knows what she wants. Take her to the store, let her decide if she wants you there or waiting in the car. If she needs help, don’t get the store brand. Regardless of how that goes, make sure she gets a milkshake after.”
He raised an eyebrow. “Does that help?”
“For most of the rest of most women’s lives,” Phillip chimed in with a kind laugh.
God, I liked him.
“All right.” Dustin stood straighter, his voice firm. “I’ve got this. I’m calling you if I don’t.” He looked at me again.
I conceded, and he was on his way. I turned back to Phillip’s instruction, repeating the mantra stop thinking about trying this with them.
It didn’t work.
