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Treena2000 wants to send you a message.
My brows quirk with interest as my thumb hovers over the screen. I hesitate as I read the notification again.
“Fuck.”
I throw my phone into the center console, the message unopened.
I want a hot shower and my own bed.
It can wait.
Chapter 2
Maddy
“YouareeverythingI’vebeen searching for all this time. I love you, and I’m an idiot for not seeing it sooner. Don’t marry him, marry me.”
A swoony sigh leaves my lips at the deep rumble of his voice.Sexual healing straight to my ears.
I prop my chin in one hand and scroll up the screen with my mouse. I squint as I spot a typo.
“Hey!”
Cold air hits my ear as my friend and colleague, Chloe, whips my earbud out and holds it up to her ear.
“Again?” She rolls her eyes and clicks her tongue. “You’ll turn into one of those voice recognition AIs. Able to identify him from one syllable.”
I pull my other earbud out and hit pause on my audiobook. Nate Black’s voice disappears, and my stomach sinks at the loss.
“I bet he’s old and bald. Probably wears crocs too…withthose clip decoration things on them.” Chloe shudders, making me laugh as I retrieve the earbud from her outstretched palm.
“He’s not, and he wouldn’t.”
“You don’t know that,” she sings, raising her brows as she leans against my desk.
I glance around the open plan office of In Sync, the online magazine I’ve worked at since graduating from university with a degree in English Literature two years ago. Everyone else is working with earbuds in or chatting in small groups around their desks.
“I do. A voice like that…” I drift off, a goofy smile spreading across my face before Chloe snaps her fingers, bringing me out of my head. “A voice like that,” I continue, “most definitely has a body to match.”
“You hope?”
I bite my lower lip. “Plus, I might have, you know… seen his new narrator headshot that Eve got through.”
“You didn’t?” Chloe’s eyes widen. “Was he—?”
“Completely gorgeous with eyes that penetrate your soul? Yes.” I sigh, conjuring up the mental image I’ve safely stored away. Short, dark hair, warm brown eyes, an open smile… and the deepest, smoothest voice in the history of all human voices…
Nate Black is perfection.
“Fuck.” She blows out a breath before eyeing up my earbuds. “Maybe I should listen to these books. It’d drown out the ogre.”
I scoop them off the desk and drop them into my purse on the floor. “Frankie’s back on the scene, then?”
She drops her head back to groan at the ceiling at the mention of her housemate’s on-and-off boyfriend, whose snores are loud enough to make the walls vibrate. “Yeah, and he’s sleeping over again. Until the next time he fucks up, anyway.”
I click back into the document in front of me. “You staying at mine again tonight, then?”
She presses her hands into a prayer sign. “Yes! God, you’re a lifesaver… well, a sleep-saver. I hate not getting eight hours. I need my sleep.”
