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I’ve been keeping a journal since I was a kid. It helps me when I’m feeling overwhelmed like I am right now. It helps me to sort my thoughts, and I need that now. I start writing, chewing on my bottom lip as I scrawl my thoughts across the page.
Dear Diary,
Today was…I don’t know. It was stressful but also wonderful and exciting. I hate lying to Levi or anyone at the company, but man, I really need this job. I’m making almost double what I was at the diner, even on the best of tip days, and it’s fewer hours.
I thinkthat I’m really going to like working for Levi. He’s so sweet and thoughtful. Okay, yeah, and he’s also totally hot and sexy.
He makes me feel special.He makes me feel beautiful and like I belong there. Oh, Diary, I stood out like a sore thumb when I first got there. Everyone was in such nice clothes, and they all seemed so confident. All of the women were also at least four sizes smaller than me, which didn’t help, but when I was around Levi, I didn’t notice any of that.
It’s toobad that I can’t date him. He doesn’t even know the real me. I mean, I feel bad enough for lying about my name and taking this job. Now that I have it, though, I can’t lose it. Lila needs that surgery, and soon. She’s counting on me, and I won’t let her down. Ican’tlet her down.
I’ve got to go run errands, but I’ll be back later. I have a feeling that I’m going to need to continuously need the reminder that Levi is off limits and you’re the only one to be able to do that for me.
XO,
Pia
I feel betterafter getting out some of my feelings, but it hasn’t fixed the main problem. My body still goes all tingly and hot whenever I so much as think about Levi.
I need to get my libido under control.
And fast.
FOUR
Levi
I’ve always been excitedto go to work before, but it’s hit a whole new level now that Pia is working for me. I practically leaped out of bed as soon as my alarm went off this morning, and I smiled through my whole morning routine and drive in today.
I paced like a lovesick fool, waiting for her to arrive. I thought that having her close by and in my eyesight would calm me down a bit and then I could focus on work, but that hasn’t happened.
She’s been here for three hours already. I spent the first hour and a half going over her duties and helping her get set up on her computer. The last hour and a half, I’ve spent trying to work, but my eyes keep straying to her every few minutes. It should be maddening, but every time my eyes land on her, my heart kicks in my chest, and all I feel is hopeful.
I need to figure her out so I can try to come up with the best way to ask her out. Step one of that plan is to have lunch with her again and try to get to know her more. I ordered us some food from a nearby burger joint that should be here any minute.
As if on cue, the delivery guy comes around the corner, and I smile as I walk out to tip him.
“Thanks,” I say, taking the bags from him.
“No problem. Have a great day.”
He turns to leave, and I glance at Pia. She’s staring at the takeout bags in longing, and I smile.
“I got us lunch. Why don’t we eat in my office?” I suggest.
She blinks, those beautiful purple eyes widening.
“Oh, you didn’t have to do that,” she objects, but I just smile and pull her chair out for her.
“I wanted to. Come on, you must be hungry by now.”
Her stomach growls as we head into my office, and I make a note to have more snacks on hand here for her. I don’t want my girl to be going hungry.
She takes a seat at my desk, and I decide to sit in the chair next to her instead of across. She’s wearing a white button-up shirt that can barely contain all of her mouthwatering curves and a black skirt that ends a few inches above her knees. She tugs down on the skirt self-consciously as I start to take out the food, and my mouth waters. I’d much rather take a bite out of her right now than anything that’s in these bags.
“You look lovely,” I tell her, and she blushes.
“The clothes are kind of…old. I think I need to get a new wardrobe if I want to stay working here,” she laughs, and I tense.
