Back in the Bedroom

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Authors: Jill Shalvis
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“Over-share!”
    “I knew the chance I was taking,” she said calmly. “We’ve long ago established how naive I was, but if you think I have regrets you’re the naive one.”
    “Mom.” She was certifiable. “He has a hundred other women he could use for today.”
    “Yes, but he wants me. And let’s face it, I’m the best.”
    “What about whoever he took to Cabo?”
    “Well, I doubt whoever she was knew accounting.”
    True.
    “Stop acting like an old man, Reilly. I’ll be back in a few days. Live a little while I’m gone, okay?”
    “You sound just like him when you say that,” he said, broodingly.
    “Have a good day, honey.”
    He stared down at his cell after she hung up on him, then tossed it onto the passenger seat. Live a little. He’d lived plenty. He’d lived long and hard, and frankly, was happy with how things were going. Nice and quiet and even-keeled. No surprises. No being konked over the head by idiotic burglars. No being kissed stupid by a little hottie who had somehow—and he was still dizzy over this one—ended up working for him.
    By the time he got into his office, he was ready to bury himself in numbers. Lots of numbers.
    Tessa sat behind the front desk on the phone, her brown hair swinging as she turned to watch him walk in. Her big, bright-green eyes gave away her every thought, as usual.
    She was thinking she would have been happier if he hadn’t shown up.
    Join the club, baby.
    She recovered nicely, even gave him a little wave accompanied by what seemed like a very genuine smile. So genuine he nearly waved right back.
    “I’ll be sure to note the changes to the payables,” she said sweetly into the phone. “Oh, why, yes, I’ll tell Mr. Ledger that you think I’m the very best temp he’s ever had,” she said, laughing. “Just so happens that I thinkso, too. Bye, now.” She hung up and sent him a saucy look that dared him to say otherwise.
    “Maybe you should tell Eddie you need a raise,” he suggested.
    “Then he’ll charge you more.”
    “I can handle Eddie.”
    She smiled. “So can I.”
    “I don’t imagine there isn’t much you can’t handle,” he heard himself say.
    “Nope. That comes from being the baby of the family,” she said proudly. “My sister and brother like to worry about me, but it’s their own fault I’m this way. They created me.”
    “So you’re close to them.”
    “Very.”
    “They probably don’t try to run your life,” he muttered, thinking of his mother.
    She laughed at that. “Are you kidding? They live to run my life. That’s what love’s all about, Reilly.”
    Yeah. Love. He forced his eyes off her and the sunshine-yellow suit dress she wore and looked around the counter that just yesterday had held a bag of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
    “Oh, I’m sorry,” she said, reading his mind. “I’m fresh out of cash until payday.”
    Ah, hell. He came back toward her. “Don’t buy me doughnuts with your own money. There’s no need. There’s petty cash in Cheri’s desk.”
    “But then it’d be you buying you doughnuts.”
    “Yes, and then no one owes anyone anything.”
    She just looked at him.
    Resisting the urge to squirm, he walked past her and headed down the hall toward his office.
    “Good thing Cheri told me you weren’t a morning person,” she muttered.
    Which stopped him in his tracks.
    “She also said you’re not an afternoon or evening person,” she said. “In case you were wondering.”
    He had to ask, even knowing he shouldn’t. “What else did she say about me?”
    Her smile widened just a little bit wickedly.
    He did squirm now.
    “She said you’re egotistical, grumpy, stubborn and innately suspicious.”
    Okay, that he could handle, as it was true.
    But then she put a finger to her chin as she thought. “Oh, and that she felt none of those things were your fault.”
    “Really? Why not?”
    “Because she and your father screwed you up and what they didn’t screw up, working for the CIA

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