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Yes.Evolet stomped down her initial reply.
“Um...can I let you know? I’m not sure what all I have to do for work, and I’ve got an audition coming up for the East Coast Chamber Orchestra. I really need to practice.”
“Whoa. I heard them perform at Bryant Park last summer. You must be excited!”
Guilt spurted through her. She knew the material for her audition backward and forward. As much as the extra practice boosted her confidence, one night out wouldn’t doom her audition. But she couldn’t get used to this camaraderie, didn’t want to want the connections she was reluctantly but steadily forming with others.
“Don’t congratulate me too soon. I haven’t had a successful audition since I made it on to the Apprentice Symphony.”
“Hey,” Audrey said as she came forward and enveloped Evolet in a hug, “don’t sell yourself short. How many people apply and don’t even get an audition?”
Evolet stood frozen for a moment before she indulged in hugging Audrey back. Constanza had hugged her all the time. But other than that, physical touch had been in short supply during her life.
“Thank you, Audrey,” she whispered.
“You’re welcome. And I get it. Maybe next weekend.”
“Everything okay?”
Evolet stiffened as Damon’s voice washed over her. He stood framed in her doorway, devastatingly handsome in a three-piece charcoal suit and black tie. She’d never thought about waistcoats, much less how sexy they would look molded perfectly to a muscular chest and tapered waist, but she certainly did now.
She wrenched her gaze away before Audrey picked up on the sudden tension humming in the air.
“Yes. Audrey was just congratulating me on securing an audition.”
“That is cause for congratulations.”
“Thank you.”
Damon glanced down at his watch. “Evolet, if you could report to my office in fifteen minutes, we’ve had some updates from our public relations department.”
“Yes, sir.”
He leveled an enigmatic gaze at her before disappearing down the hall.
“Sir?” Audrey said with a laugh. “I don’t think anyone has called him ‘sir’ in years.”
Evolet tried to shrug off the sensual energy clinging to her like a second skin. “He’s my boss.”
“Technically your agency is your boss. But regardless, it is okay to call him Damon. It takes a little getting used to, but once you do, he seems more accessible, less scary.”
But she couldn’t. The last time she had called Damon by his name, it had been moaning it, begging him not to stop seducing her with kisses in the middle of a spring storm.
“I don’t know if anything could make him less scary.”
Audrey frowned. “Has he done something to make you uncomfortable?”
Her guilt doubled. Damon had been nothing but a gentleman since she’d started working. That was probably part of what set her on edge. He tempted her with his very presence, whereas he continued to type away at his computer, field numerous phone calls or host meetings without a single glance in her direction.
“No. He’s been great.” She shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant. “It’s me. He just seems...larger-than-life, I guess. The bachelor billionaire in the fancy office.”
Audrey’s laugh echoed down the hall as she headed out. “I would pay to see you say that to his face directly.”
Evolet managed to answer a few emails, grab cups of coffee for both her and Damon, and make it into his office one minute before the deadline.
He didn’t look up as she walked in, but he did spare a glance at the coffee cup she set on his desk.
“Colombian, black,” she said as she sat in the chair across from him.
