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“Very,” he agreed, smiling faintly.
“Do you have a last name?”
“McGinty.”
She shivered, remembering his earlier words.My uncle.She’d just had a random hookup with her boss’s nephew. Hell, at least she’d done her part for inter-office relations.
God, she was so screwed.
Five
Elena bither lip and stared at the glass walls, the floor, even the wastebasket where he’d tossed the condom. Anywhere but at him.
Enzo wrapped his arm around her and tucked her close, his heat enveloping her until she could’ve been trapped in a snow globe and never would've noticed. “Cold?”
No, just stupid.
“I'm fine.” Better than fine. Incredible. So incredible she wouldn't have been surprised if she glowed.
But that was merely the physical. Mentally, she didn’t feel nearly so Zen.
He turned his face into her hair and breathed deep. “I love how you smell. Your shampoo, what scent is it?”
“Vanilla. Just plain vanilla.”
“It isn't plain.You'renot plain. You're a beautiful woman who denies herself far too much.”
“And what are you? The savior of all sexually repressed women everywhere?” She tried to make her tone light, but something in his smile resonated.
Could that be true? Had he figured she was an easy mark and gone for it?
He drew his fingertip down her ribcage, smiling when she trembled. “You're not repressed anymore.”
She drew his face away and gazed into his eyes. “Was sleeping with me your good deed for the week?”
“We did not sleep, Bella.”
“You know what I mean.” She tried to pull back, but he held firm. “We’ve never spoken before today. What would make you think I would be interested in—” She gestured between them. “This?”
That same vaguely irritating smile played around his mouth. But before he spoke, she knew.
She wrote about sex. She had to be desperate, so of course she would do it with any guy that made the offer, right? Wasn’t that how it worked?
With effort, Elena clamped her fingers around the edge of the desk. “You read my private work, then came swinging that monster penis when I was weak and defenseless?—”
“Monster penis?” His smile grew. “Why, thank you.”
“It wasn’t a compliment. I’m not an easy lay.”
“No.” The softness in his expression vanished. “Right now, you’re being a rude one.”
Her hackles rose as he stepped back and disposed of the condom wrapper that he'd dropped on the floor in his haste. She couldn’t leave the evidence in her trash. The guy who emptied out the garbage cans was a known gossip and he’d be spreading lies about her before lunchtime tomorrow.
What lies? Look what you just did. Hard up much, or what?
She rubbed her arms to try to stave off a chill. She wasn’t cold because he’d taken his warmth away. The room was just drafty. “Do you do this a lot?” she questioned in an admittedly snappish tone as he bent to retrieve his clothes.
The angle gave her an up-close view of his perfect ass, and the jagged white scar along one gorgeous cheek. Against his tanned skin, the scar stood in sharp relief, and she had to bite her tongue to keep from asking how he’d gotten it.
