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It was his turn to offer a tight smile. “Sorry. This way please.”
She didn’t move, and he turned back to face her.
“Did you hear me?”
Her lips tightened with determination. “What about you?”
5
Montez blinked. “Excuse me?”
Desiree couldn’t believe she had made the suggestion either, but desperation made her willing to do anything—including pay the man who had given her the best sex of her life, though he obviously despised her because she slipped away without saying goodbye.
“You work here, you know the routine. Let me hire you, and you can pretend to be my boyfriend.”
“Why would I do that?” he scoffed.
“Because you’re a decent guy?” she said hopefully.
“I’m the vice president of marketing. I don’t take clients on dates.”
“I’m desperate,” she blurted.
He didn’t respond right away, but instead eyed her with suspicion. “What’s really going on here?”
Desiree hated to share more information than she intended to when she walked in, but partial openness might make him change his mind.
“Look, I’m up for a promotion at Carolina’s Closet—Senior VP of Marketing. In a couple of months, the owner will make a final decision about who he wants to give the position to. Until then, we have to jump through some hoops, and one of those hoops is attending a dinner at the owner’s house so he can get to know us better. A lazy liar who steals ideas and doesn’t deserve to even be in the running will be there.”
“Ass-Face?”
“Yes,” she answered, pleasantly surprised that he remembered. “Our company is very family-oriented, and he has a wife and baby on the way, and of course, his wife will be there to support him. Everyone else in attendance will be married, and then there’s me—single. I don’t want to show up alone. It’ll look bad. So, what do you think?”
“That’s quite an impassioned speech.”
His tone sounded dry, and she couldn’t tell if she had made any headway in convincing him to help her. “It’s the truth.”
Montez stuffed his hands into his pants pockets. “Why don’t we address the elephant in the room?”
“Okay. Let’s do that.” She took a breath and braced for impact.
“Do you have a habit of screwing men and leaving them in hotel rooms like their feelings don’t matter?”
She flinched. “Wow, you’re not one to mince words, are you?”
“No, I’m not.”
“I’m not in the habit of doing that, no. I had a good time that night.”
An incredible time. Thebesttime. She still thought about their limbs tangled in the sheets of the queen bed. His deep kisses, his deep strokes. And his body—good heavens. It was a thing of beauty. Tight but not too muscular, with a nice bottom she enjoyed gripping.
She didn’t know where she got the stamina from. After the third time, they were both exhausted and lay splayed across the bed, panting and laughing.
She’d had one-night stands before, but never like that. The first time having sex with someone—particularly a stranger—could be awkward because you didn’t know their likes and dislikes. There was no such awkwardness between her and Montez. They were so in sync they could have been lovers transported from a different era.
“You never intended for me to take you to breakfast, did you? That wasn’t part of the game,” Montez said.
“I don’t play games.”
