Harlequin Desire May 2018--Box Set 1 of 2 by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488092534
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Normally, Sabrina left LeBlanc shortly after she and Val went over the things on his agenda for the day. She provided insight and advice, worked through sticky HR issues with him and left as soon as his day ramped up around eight o’clock.

As much as he was paying her, she’d have stayed all day, especially now that Val had started wearing the suits he’d bought. The tailor he’d selected must have made some sort of deal with the devil. There was no other explanation for how perfectly made the suits were or how exquisitely they encased Val’s long, lean body.

She might have drooled the first time she caught sight of him in the dark blue one that matched his eyes.

But he never asked her to stay. He’d been the one to set the schedule, citing the fact that he more often than not ended up in meetings for hours on end that would bore her. Leaving worked for her because she could go to her little office and hash out pitches to other prospective clients. Answer some emails. Read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In for the fifth time.

Or at least that was the theory.

Val’s high-handed invitation to dinner with the promise of Italian food and seduction had crawled across her nerves, then parked at the base of her spine until it became almost like a living thing. No matter which way she sat at her ergonomic chair, it wasn’t comfortable. And her shoes started pinching her toes after five minutes. Which was ludicrous, given that they were sandals with nothing more than a half-inch-wide strap of leather across her foot.

Val had finally driven her around the bend.

She hadn’t agreed to a date. Val had gotten confused. What had possessed her to counter his suggestion of Thai with Italian instead of a flat out no? Okay, well she knew. She’d been fantasizing for days about what that man could do with a simmering pot of spaghetti sauce and about five feet of clear countertop that he could boost her up onto.

She couldn’t go. She should call him and make it clear. No date. What in the world did she even have to wear? Nothing. Except…the short, kind of flimsy, filmy skirt she’d bought at Nordstrom with absolutely no purpose in mind other than she liked the way she looked in it—that could work. Maybe. If she was actually considering going, which she was not. But if she did, the skirt would bunch up around her waist easily and—

Her phone rang and Val’s name flashed across it. Heat climbed into her cheeks. Had he read her mind or something? He couldn’t possibly know that she’d envisioned something completely filthy happening on his kitchen counter or that she’d been cursing the lack of details since she’d never been to his house.

“Sabrina Corbin,” she croaked into the phone. “I mean Hi.”

Val laughed. “I changed my mind. I like it when you answer Sabrina Corbin. It’s sexy.”

And she liked it when he said her name, but that would be counterproductive to mention.

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