Billionaire Boss's Fake Fiancée: A Forbidden Office Romance (Executive Arrangements) by Ariana Cooper

Author:Ariana Cooper [Cooper, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

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ELISE

Elise

Iwoke up slowly, not opening my eyes until I could gauge where Grant was in the room. I slept terribly, caught up with dreams about him. Then about pirates. And then a weird, psychedelic half-lucid nightmare about pirates in Chicago. I wasn’t sure how to interpret them. Was my present life merging with my past? Was I supposed to treat this as a combination of how I saw Grant at home and now, in a different location?

On that note, I was clueless. We were playing a dangerous game of kissing and flirting when we both knew it wasn’t supposed to last.

Maybe my dreams were a premonition of how messed up it would be when this fake engagement was over and we would need to return to how it was in the office.

If that’s even possible.

Each time I stirred enough to wake up for another episode of tossing and turning, I peeked at him sleeping soundly on the couch. His feet hung over the armrest, and I swore that angle couldn’t be comfortable for his neck against the pillow, but he was out. More than once, I tired my eyes by staring at him and wondering how he could be the same man starring in my naughty dreams—the ones sans pirates—and the guy who was my stuffy, anti-fun-loving boss back home.

Not hearing him, I opened my eyes fully. Whew. I was alone. Relieved that he wasn’t in the room, I saw the time on the clock and realized I’d slept in later than I had in the last ten years.

“Wow.” I sat up and rubbed my eyes, stunned that I'd pulled off a teenager move of staying in bed almost until one o’clock. With how lousy I slept, it made sense.

I grabbed my phone, curious what Grant had gotten up to, and I saw his text immediately.

Grant: Vince wanted to talk with me for a bit. I’m going to meet with him at the beachside café for a while.

Uh-oh. If he was chatting with him about the deal, I’d be slacking and not there as his assistant when I should be. Then again, what else could those two talk about? All day yesterday, I focused on entertaining Ginny to free up Grant and Vince to do their talking while we enjoyed the island.

Grant: P.S. You snore.

I rolled my eyes.

Elise: I do not.

I knew I did. Claudia teased me about it often and claimed it was one of the reasons she was dreading living with me again. We shared an apartment for the first month in Chicago, but when she met Keith a couple of weeks after being here, she moved out into a place with him.

I added a GIF of someone pouting.

Three dots appeared, showing that he was typing back now.

Grant: It’s cute.

I stared at his reply, dissecting it with an obsessive curiosity. Grant thought I was cute? Would being delegated to cute count as an upgrade or a demotion after the hot make-out session at the museum?

Definitely a demotion. After

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