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“Yeah, I heard. You’re my executive assistant.”
“Don’t joke.”
“I’m not joking.” He was content to throw caution into the windstorm given their borderline combustible attraction. “Remember what I said. I’m not your boss this weekend. Just a guy who’d like to have a few more close encounters with you.” He remembered her words to him at the restaurant last night. “And for the record, I don’t think of you and Tammie as interchangeable.”
“Of course. I knew that.” She closed her eyes as if embarrassed by her behavior last night. He didn’t like that look of shame when he saw it earlier with her parents and he sure as hell wouldn’t stand for it now.
“I only asked Tammie out to take my mind off you,” he admitted.
“Off me?”
“Yes. You’ve been taking up a lot of space up here lately. Too much.” He tapped the side of his head. He could see she didn’t know what to make of that. “Everything I’ve said and done lately is to make you feel more comfortable around me. In the process I began to see you differently than before. The easiest way to distract myself was...”
“With Tammie?” Addison finished for him.
“Guy math. One and one equals I’m an idiot.”
At least she smiled.
“I’m so sorry to interrupt.” Elsa Hart approached the table hand in hand with her husband. “I just spoke with your parents. Evidently this gentleman is Brannon Knox of ThomKnox. Which he did not disclose when we met earlier...”
The band of tension between Bran and Addi snapped. Unfortunately, she threw him to the wolves, probably relieved not to have to address his offer head-on.
“One and the same,” Addi answered. “I’m Brannon’s executive assistant. I’ve worked at ThomKnox for a year.”
With no polite way to extract himself from the conversation, Bran indulged Addi and Joe’s parents. He came here for Addi, anyway, so had no other choice but give her what she needed.
And, if she decided to explore what could be between them physically, he’d give her that and more.
