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I briefly consider behaving and then say to hell with it. "Why the fuck not?"
"We work together."
"We'd work even better together if you were mine."
"Zayne," she groans, making me smile. "Can you please stop talking?"
"Can you please agree to go out with me?"
"No."
"Then it looks like neither of us is gettin' what we want today, lamb."
"Oh my gosh." A thump comes down the line, and then, "Ouch. That hurt."
"Did you just bang your head on your desk?"
"Maybe."
"Don't do that. You'll hurt yourself. I'll behave."For the moment, I add silently.
"You will?" she asks hopefully.
"Yes. What can I help you with today, Emma?"
"We still haven't received the invoice for security for Adrian Kane's book signing." As it turns out, Zion was talking about Adrian the day Emma stopped by. He's Camila's adopted brother and one of her biggest clients.
"It's already been taken care of."
"What? How? We didn't pay it, Zayne. We don't have an invoice to pay it."
"Camila may want to talk to her brother," I suggest. "He sent a check."
"Of course he did," Emma mumbles. "Camila isn't going to be happy."
"She isn't going to be happy that he paid the bill?"
"He's messing up her system again."
"Ah." I chuckle.
"Can you send me a copy of the invoice, please?"
"On one condition."
"I'm not going out with you, Zayne."
"That wasn't my condition, Emma."
"Really?" She sounds surprised. "Oh. Then what is it?"
"You answer one question for me."
Surprise turns to suspicion in the blink of an eye. "What question?"
"Would you go out with me if we didn't work together?"
Her silence is all the answer I need. Even if our company didn't handle security for Camila's clients, she'd still be telling me no. Which is all the proof I need that whatever is holding her back has nothing to do with the fact that we work together.
