The Fix Up (First Impressions) by Fenske Tawna

Author:Fenske, Tawna [Fenske, Tawna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: category, geek, makeover, make over, CEO, romantic comedy, Tawna Fenske, romance, ugly duckling, geeky, Entangled, Lovestruck, contemporary romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The second the words left his lips, Ben wished he could take them back. Hadn’t he promised himself he wouldn’t be a skirt-chasing jerk like his dad?

And hadn’t Holly made it damn clear she wanted to keep a professional distance between them? That there was no room in their working relationship for anything of a sexual nature?

And Ben wanted to respect that. He really, really did.

But he could have sworn he’d been feeling some sort of crazy sexual tension crackling in the air between them for the last twenty minutes. It made him bold, or maybe it was just the fact that he was getting to talk about a subject he knew well.

Whatever the case, the look on Holly’s face told him she wasn’t hating it.

“Take my clothes off,” she repeated. “You want me to take my clothes off.”

“Yes.”

“You know, that’s not a bad idea.”

Ben blinked. “It’s not?”

She reached for the top button on her blouse, fiddling with it as she spoke, and Ben felt his mouth start to water.

“I don’t know if you noticed this, but you started off at the very beginning of this session with a very dry, no-nonsense tone,” she said. “Your posture was atrocious, your eye contact terrible, your enunciation lousy, the pacing of your words—”

“I think I got it,” he said. “I suck. Point taken.”

“That’s just it, though. The second you stood up and started talking about stiffness and elongation and—”

“And looking down the front of your blouse?”

“Exactly! The instant all that happened, everything changed. You stood up straighter, you began speaking more clearly—hell, even your eye contact was better.” She grinned. “When you weren’t looking at my tits, anyway.”

“That’s true, I suppose.” He slid off the edge of the table, relieved she wasn’t offended. “I also liked watching you squirm when I talked about fukalite and the size of my equipment.”

“Making me squirm makes you a better public speaker?” Holly slapped her hand on the table. “That’s what it is!”

“That’s what what is?”

“Power. Confidence. Control. That’s what revs your engine. That’s what brings out your authoritative inner-CEO.”

“Not a bad theory,” Ben said, wishing she’d move a little to the side so he could look down her shirt again. “So you’re volunteering your body for the sake of my public speaking skills?”

“I suppose I might be.”

Ben nodded and folded his hands in front of him. “I approve this plan.”

“I’m not saying that, exactly, but you did give me an idea.”

“Any idea that involves you taking off your clothes is a good one.”

Holly rolled her eyes. “You know how I mentioned that old trick about picturing your audience in their underwear?”

“Particularly awkward with that grade school chess tournament speech I mentioned.”

“I think we should give it a shot.”

“Give what a shot?” He was still hung up on the idea of seeing Holly naked so maybe he’d missed some of the specifics of the plan.

“Start your presentation. Focus on the things we’ve been talking about, from the order of your presentation to your body language while you’re delivering it.

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