Hot Date With The Boss (BBW Contemporary Billionaire Romance) by Ava May Page B

wonder if she was just another secretary that he was but to fire.
    “I really need this job. I really, really don’t want to mess this up,” she thought as she got started on his coffee.

Chapter 2
    By the end of her first day, Taylor was convinced more than ever that she had lived through her very last day as Zachary’s secretary. Everything that could possibly go wrong actually did. The coffee she made him was not as strong as he would have liked it and the fact that it took her an extra three minutes to get the ‘right’ mug meant that the coffee was not as hot as it should have been. She had then gone on to file the wrong papers and shred the right ones … the day was basically a disaster.
    At around four-thirty, she was ready to pack up her desk and just leave. That was the only way she was assured that she could leave the building with her dignity still intact. She had just picked up her purse to leave when Zachary called her into his office. She took a long deep breath and pushed her chair back before she stood up. She walked into his office and found him typing something on his laptop.
    “Miss Sullivan, have a seat, please,” he said as he turned to look at her.
    “Okay,” Taylor said in a less than sure voice. She was looking right at him as he leaned back in his chair. She almost felt as if his deep-searching eyes were looking right into her.
    “Is this your first secretarial job, Miss Sullivan?” he suddenly asked. She looked at him and shook her head.
    “No … not really.”
    Zachary raised an eyebrow over the other.
    “Not really?” he echoed and she nodded.
    “Well, what I mean to say is that I have worked as a secretary before … twice, actually,” she said, her voice shaking.
    There was a long uncomfortable silence before he finally talked again.
    “Why did you leave your two previous posts, if you don’t mind my asking?” he asked, looking right into her brown eyes.
    “Well, the first company went out of business and the second one…” she paused and exhaled deeply. She did not know how she could politely put ‘the boss spanked me once and I quit’. “I don’t like to talk about the second one so much. All I can say is that it did not end well.”
    “I don’t want to sound like I am prying, Miss Sullivan, but I have to ask. Is there a Mr. Sullivan?” Zachary suddenly asked. Taylor knew that her surprise was written all over her face.
    “Well, there is my dad if that is what you are asking,” she said, even though she knew that she was not telling him what he wanted to hear. “Hence the Miss before my name and not Mrs.”
    Zachary smiled.
    “I don’t want to sound too direct, Miss Sullivan,” he started as he leaned forward. “All I want to know is if I need to think twice before I invite you out to a party at The Hamptons tonight.”
    Taylor forced out a cough.
    “ Tonight ?” she asked in surprise and he nodded.
    “Yes, tonight,” Zachary said as he shut down his computer. “I do detest those parties and I think the company of a lovely woman such as yourself would make it worthwhile.” She shook her head and shrugged.
    “Mr. Cohen…” she started.
    “If you think this is a little too forward … I just wanted…” Zachary was stuttering. “This is not a social call, Miss Sullivan.”
    “It’s not?” she asked, raising an eyebrow over the other.
    “No,” he said shaking his head. “I will be meeting a prospective partner at The Hamptons and I initially thought that I would have to get someone from HR to come with me but now that I have an assistant, I don’t see the need to.”
    “I’m a secretary, actually,” Taylor pointed out.
    “Well, I believe an assistant is a better title and maybe even better pay,” Zachary said, shrugging. Taylor looked at him and wondered what trick he had up his sleeve. “I can organize the overtime pay.”
    Taylor sighed and then shrugged.
    “Well, I guess that sounds great,” she said.
    “Good. We will be leaving