Billionaire Boss's One Night Stand by Ariana Cooper

Author:Ariana Cooper [Cooper, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Ididn’t let my stomach disrupt me from concentrating at work. It would pass soon enough, and some days, I felt fine. If it persisted another week, I’d have to sacrifice the work time to make an appointment and make sure I was taking care of myself the best I could. I hated to think of asking for any time off despite the more-than-fair allotment of sick leave and PTO. It was a people-pleasing habit I doubted I’d ever break.

Always be on time, and always show up no matter what.

One more week, and I’ll make an appointment.

The team was busier than normal, anyway. We had tons of input from the Gammon people. Emily, one of the reps I met at that first meeting, had asked for my email and wasn’t shy or procrastinating about inundating my inbox with further questions and ideas they might like to see implemented.

Having a project to focus on was good. It kept my mind busy. I was too preoccupied to dwell on my stomach feeling off and this hot-and-cold thing with Matt.

I had a plan for my stomach issues. One week, and I’d cave to make an appointment.

I didn’t have a plan for dealing with Matt and turning off my lingering desire for him. The best I could do was continue to stay strong and not let him get to me.

Easier said than done…

I had yet to see him smile in the office. And I was more convinced than ever that he was deliberately zeroing in on me and pushing my buttons just to get a rise out of me.

Today, though, he was too in the zone to be motivated for any such bickering or act of annoying me. I was focused too, poring over materials to get a better grasp on a layout for the more in-depth presentation for specific branches of their baby line.

We had been revising our pitch for two weeks, complete with butting heads and sometimes arguing over the simplest little things that left me walking away and wondering why we’d wasted so much time bickering about a trivial thing. Then I realized that maybe he enjoyed this back-and-forth nature of our work relationship as much as I did.

Tom, however, was preventing us from a moment of concentration. He had yet to take a hint that I wasn’t interested. Resorting to not replying at all, I treated him as though he was invisible. Not there. Not talking to me and listing the best places he could take me to get a better feel for the city. It sounded too much like a lame attempt at asking me if he could feel me up.

Matt spoke up first. He slapped his pen down and narrowed his eyes at him. “Have you read any of those reports?” He gestured at the documents splayed out in front of him, all of them untouched.

“Um. I will…”

“No. Not here.” Matt pointed at the door as he lowered his gaze to his tablet once more, sliding his paper over to take notes again.

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