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“Right,” she scoffs.
Plastering a smile on my face, I try not to make eye contact with any of the staff as I lead her out to my SUV.
I pull open the passenger door for her and wait for her to climb inside. She quickly fastens her seat belt as if she’s worried I might crash us before we get there. If she only knew that I consider her to be precious cargo, so I’ll be extra careful with her sitting next to me.
“Do you know where we’re going?” she asks once I take my seat behind the wheel.
“Yeah. I know the other locations. Which one do you want to go to first?”
“Calloway. It’s the furthest away. We can work our way back to Bridgewater and then back to the main office in Charleston.”
She crosses her arms over her chest and immediately turns to look out the window instead of at me. Her body language tells me that she wants to be anywhere but here, but there is a sparkle in her eyes that tells another story.
I need to see that sparkle.
“Charlie?” I wait for her to turn to look at me, but she doesn’t. This calls for drastic measures. Reaching over, I place my hand on her thigh. Her skirt is tight over her thighs where she sits, and my hand rests perfectly. “Look at me.” I wait. Her eyes move to my hand on her thigh before slowly rising to mine. “There she is.” I smile at her.
“You shouldn’t be touching me. That’s sexual harassment.” Her words tell me to stop, but her sparkling eyes tell me she likes it.
“Do you want me to move my hand, Charlie?”
“I— Yes, you should.”
“I didn’t ask you if you thought that I should.” I turn in my seat to get a better look at her. My body is angled toward hers as much as the seat will allow. “I asked you if you wanted me to move my hand.”
“I am your employee.”
“Not yet,” I counter. “Tell me, Charlie.”
She nods, not able to give me the words, so I lift my hand from her thigh, already missing the contact even through her skirt. The need to feel her skin against mine is so strong that I take the same hand and mold it to her cheek. “You should let me kiss you.” My voice is husky even to my own ears.
“W-What?” she stammers.
I keep my eyes locked on hers. “I want to kiss you.”
“You want to kiss me?” She repeats my words as if she doesn’t understand the meaning of them.
“More than anything,” I say, knowing I’m giving her too much. I don’t know why, but after last weekend, the me that used to be an asshole to her just doesn’t seem to fit us. Not anymore. I’ve tasted her, and spent time with her, where she started to let her guard down and it’s led me to wonder if I wasn’t wrong all those years ago. I thought she shot me down because she felt like she was better than me, but that doesn’t seem to be who she is.
My head is a mess over this woman, and I can’t stop thinking about kissing her. A fucking four, really? I can do better, and I’m damn well going to prove that to her.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” she replies with a hushed whisper.
That’s not a no. “Maybe we should try it and see?”
“Spencer.” She sighs.
“Just one, Charlie.”
“We’re in the parking lot of my work. The office your hospital is trying to buy. This isn’t a good plan.”
I nod and sit back in my seat, adjusting my seat belt around my chest and locking it in place before starting my SUV and pulling out of the lot. I drive one block, turn right into the pharmacy parking lot, and put the SUV in Park. Unclasping my seat belt, I turn to face her. My hand goes back to her cheek, and she tilts her head just slightly. If I wasn’t watching her as closely as I am, I would have missed it.
“What are you doing?” she asks softly.
“Fixing the problem. Now we’re just in a random parking lot.”
“In the middle of the day.”
