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“The others don’t feel mating fever like shifters do, you know. You get a couple of extra points in their books, but you still have to win them over. The mates have to fall in love, whatever that is, and they have to choose to accept the mating. They have tosurrenderto it. Do you know how much trouble we could get in if you harass this woman and she doesn’t like it? Those laws are in place for a reason.”
Math didn’t like the way this guy was talking about shifters. “You’re a shifter, too. Do you have something against shifters?”
The HR guy leered at Math, and the irises of his eyes lengthened into horizontal bars. “Let me guess: you can’t get her off your mind. You’re finding all sorts of reasons to hang around her while she’s trying to work.”
Math probably shouldn’t mention that his dick had been making a tent of his pants when he’d been asking Bethany to lie on the bed with him, or that he’d handed her a master key that would open any door in the entire casino, directly after he’d made sure she knew exactly which room and bed he would be sleeping in that night.
Not that she had used the keycard.
Because he hadn’t meant it that way.
Except that he had.
It had been two nights since he’d given her the keycard.
Two agonizing, sleepless, lonely nights.
He’d handed her the card, and her fingertips had brushed his. Ever since, he’d been picturing her lithe shadow slipping into his darkened room as he lay in bed, her black hair bleeding into the night as she stole toward him.
He shook his head, trying to clear the competing thoughts running through it. “I don’t have mating fever. I’m far too young.”
The squid shifter squinted at Math, examining his face and neck. “Flushed skin. Changes to eye color, more vibrant, more electric. Preoccupied. Easily irritated when away from the fated mate. You’ve got all the symptoms, Mr. Draco.”
“No, I don’t,” he argued.
“Stubborn, poisoned by testosterone, and in denial.”
“Are those symptoms of mating fever, too?”
“No, just the observation of an HR professional with twenty years of experience,” Smedley snarled.
“I am working with this woman in a professional capacity. We are trying to get this casino ready to show to the angel investors in three weeks. It’s an extremely important phase of development.”
“Then you need to find someone else who can oversee her. She’s an independent contractor. Her contract will be up in less than a month. Keep your dragon hands and your dragon tail and your dragon claws off of that witch until she’s no longer an employee of your dragon clan, or all of this could get very litigious, very quickly.”
“Three weeks seems so long,” Math sighed.
“It would only seem long if the mating fever has truly come upon you. To anyone else, anyone who isn’t about to go insane with the mating frenzy, three weeks would be fine.”
“Wait a minute, matingfrenzy?No one told me anything about a matingfrenzy.They didn’t cover that in sophomore shifter health class or Magical Biology.”
Smedley growled at Math, “Stay away from Bethany Aura.”
Math narrowed his eyes at the HR guy. “I can’t. I have to make sure that the most important parts of the casino are ready for the angel investor tour. And I’ve got to get her started on that damned fountain out front.”
The squid shifter scowled so hard that Math thought he was going to spit inkagain.“I am documenting, right now, that you have come to me to seek advice about sexual harassment in the workplace, and I advised you to find another manager to oversee her work. At the very least, that should reduce the casino’s liability in the inevitable sexual harassment lawsuit when she goes after you.”
Math stomped out of the HR office with the squid’s warnings ringing in his head.
