Between the Covers by Louisa Masters

Author:Louisa Masters
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780648337478
Published: 2020-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

What am I doing?

Dani wondered for the millionth time if she’d been possessed by a mischievous spirit of some kind. What else would have caused her to accept a job and a place to live from the man she was desperately crushing on?

The whole situation just reeked of impending disaster.

Sighing, she sank down on the edge of her bed in Ben and Léo’s apartment. At her side, her open suitcase mocked her. She was supposed to be packing for her move to Malik’s place, was actually half done, but negative thoughts were delaying her.

Workplace relationships were possible. She knew they were, had been witness to several successful ones. They could also be disastrous. She’d been witness to several of those too. Like many things in life, it came down to a case-by-case situation. But, a live-in workplace relationship? That ramped up the pressure from the get-go. And add to that a preexisting friendship group….

There were so many ways for things to go wrong—or just be plain icky—that Dani really thought it would be best to completely let go of any notion of a romantic, sexual, or otherwise more than friends and colleagues relationship with Malik.

So. Her heart might be slightly bruised, and her girly bits might be crying out from neglect, but she was still going to take the path that promised a sensible long-term result. Besides, sleeping with the guy who literally paid your salary was a bit creepy. Especially when you also lived in his house.

What the fuck am I doing?

Shaking off the little voice that suggested she buy a ticket back to Australia, she got up and finished her packing. It was too late to change her mind now—her cousin was already ensconced in her house, several boxes of her things currently in transit to Monaco—and anyway, why would she want to? This was literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She had a cushy job working for one of her favorite authors, living in the kind of apartment she would never be able to afford, in Monaco, of all places, with her bestie just a few minutes away and tons of opportunity to explore Europe laid out before her. What was the downside? That she had to get over a crush? She’d done that before, and it wouldn’t kill her to do it again.

Big girl undies, Dan.

She’d just zipped her bag when someone knocked on the doorjamb, and she turned her head to see Malik there, smiling at her.

It would be so much easier to get over this crush if he was less… him.

Some men really did have it all. Good looks, charisma, wealth, sense of humor, a winning personality… surely the man had some flaws?

“Are you ready?” he asked, and she nodded.

“Yep!” The cheerful note sounded a little forced, so she tried to cover it by adding, “Thanks for coming to pick me up, but you didn’t have to.” She could have quite easily walked the distance between his building and Léo’s, even if her suitcase hadn’t had wheels.

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