Burn For Him by Kristan Belle

Author:Kristan Belle [Belle, Kristan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kristan Belle
Published: 2015-01-24T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The next few days were relatively quiet, thank goodness for that.

I finally felt like I could relax a little bit. There had been no change with Destiny’s condition, but the other aspects of my life were becoming a little less stressful. Steve hadn’t been giving me such as hard time at work. I had been sleeping better and I hadn’t seen or heard anything from Milligan. I hoped that meant that he had finally got the message and that he was now going to leave me alone.

That was until the following Wednesday morning. I was at work and Steve came into my office to sit on the edge of my desk. He look was a mixture of concern and anger. It wasn’t an easy look for him to pull off. I wondered what the hell I had done wrong this time. It was a worry to see him looking like that. The last week, things had gone back to normal and we had had our easy working relationship back. Now, it all looked like it was going to go belly up again.

“What’s wrong, Steve?” I asked him.

He was watching me so quietly that I thought I may as well get the ball rolling. He hadn’t had a bad word to say about my work. I didn’t know what I had done wrong. Everything had been completed and put on his desk way ahead of schedule. I had worked my ass off to get that last assignment right. I couldn’t see how he was going to be able to pick fault with it.

“How is everything with you, Carrie?”

That was a trick question if ever I’d heard one. I had to be careful how I answered him. Anything I could and would say would be held against me.

“Why don’t you just tell me what’s going on, Steve?”

“You know that I don’t like to get involved with my employee’s personal lives, but you have worked here for me long enough that I feel I must speak to you about this.”

Shit. This was sounding worse than I thought. I didn’t say anything. There was nothing that I could say. I had no idea what he was getting at with this line of conversation.

“I know that it is not pleasant when a relationship goes sour, but I don’t want it to affect your working life. I know that that is not always easily done, but you have to try and keep these things separate.”

What was he going on about now? I hadn’t let anything affect my work. Was he on about that thing with Milligan outside the office last week? If it was, he was a bit late in pulling me up about it.

He remained quiet, just looking at me with those intent green eyes of his. “Steve. I don’t meant to be rude, but what are you getting at? Aren’t you pleased with how the Smyth project turned out? I thought that they were more than satisfied with it.” I couldn’t think for the life of me why he wouldn’t be pleased with it.

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