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“He’s a well-known womanizer who’s only after one thing.”
“It takes one to know one?”
Sig rolled his eyes. “Alistair is far worse than I ever was, even at his age.”
“And that’s saying a lot?”
“Well…” He paused. “Yes.”
I crossed my arms and looked out at the London fog. “I can take care of myself, you know. I don’t need you to decide who should stay away from me.”
“I run the business. I have every right to decide what happens.”
“Youdon’thave a right to tell me who I can and cannot interact with.”
“If it’s at the business I run, I do have that right, actually.”
I decided to mess with him—see where it would go. I liked him a little riled up.
“Okay, well, if I want to interact with him, I’ll have to do it outside of work.”
He adjusted his grip on the steering wheel, and he was grinding his teeth.
“You didn’t think I’d have no social life here, did you?”
“You can have a social life without getting involved with a notorious philanderer.”
“If you keep your distance from your staffers, as you seem to, how do you know so much about his reputation?”
He whipped his head toward me. “Who says I keep my distance?”
Shit.Alistair did. But I wasn’t going to admit that. “Just a guess.”
“Even if I don’t join them for their little after-work outings, that doesn’t mean I have my head in the sand. I listen to what they’re talking about. I hear the whispers. He’s bagged more than one woman from Covington.”
“Good for him,” I taunted.
Sig’s eyes darted toward me.
Then I burst out laughing. “I love making you mad.”
He sighed. “You’re very good at it. One of your few talents.”
I snorted. “In all seriousness, though, while I appreciate your opinion, Idon’taccept you telling me who I can and cannot associate with, at work or otherwise. I’m here in the UK for one reason, but that doesn’t include you dictating who I date.”
“Date?” His voice cracked. “You’re going on adatewith him now?”
“No. I didn’t necessarily mean Alistair. But that’s what this is about, isn’t it? You’re worried he’s going to ask me out and I’m going to become the latest of his conquests? What would that matter to you?”
“Given the circumstances that brought you here, it should be clear why I have an interest in who you’re associating with.”
“Really… Well, that could be a problem, then. It’s going to be a long nine months or more. I can’t be expected to not date that whole time. You mean to tell me if I meet someone, I have to approve it through you? That’s not what I signed up for.” This had started as teasing, but nowIwas feeling a little riled up by his egotistical stance.
“You said you were ready for this, Abby. It doesn’t sound like it, if your priority is dating.”
“I didn’tsaydating was my priority. But this could take more than a year. That’s a long time. I can’t be expected to just be alone, not have a social life—at least during the time I’m not showing a lot. Doyouplan to be celibate for nine months?”
Sig gnawed at his bottom lip and said nothing.
