How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Book 2) by Jenny Proctor

Author:Jenny Proctor [Proctor, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: 2022-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Lila

I pace around my living room with my heart in my throat and my overnight bag on the couch behind me. The house seems too quiet without Jack here, which isn’t helping me feel any less anxious.

Jack is fine. With his grandparents in Columbia and probably getting spoiled rotten. He’s stayed with them overnight before, so I know he’ll be okay until Trevor’s parents drive him back to Hendersonville tomorrow afternoon. I’m just not used to having so much silence to fill with my own thoughts.

And right now, my thoughts are loud.

A month ago, I was swooning over my new boss’s picture and giggling over the idea of working for someone one very close degree of separation away from famous Flint Hawthorne.

Now, I’m pacing around my living room waiting for Perry to pick me up for an overnight date to an event at which his ex-wife will also be in attendance. (Yes, date. I’m wearing shapewear so no matter what Perry thinks about the reunion not counting—IT COUNTS.) There are so many things to process. So many reasons to freak out.

Seized by sudden impulse, I move to my kitchen table and pull out a chair, sitting down to evaluate the stretchability of my shapewear. So far, I haven’t done a solid sit test. I wiggle back and forth and try to imagine how this will feel after eating an entire meal. So far, so good. I’m really only wearing it to keep the underwear lines hidden in my—ahem—very curvaceous dress, if I do say so myself, and it’s managing that quite nicely. Plus, it’s moving with me pretty well, and sitting doesn’t make me feel like I’m suffocating, so I’m calling this late-night Instagram impulse purchase a win.

I stand up and start pacing again, one hand pressed to my stomach. If nothing else, I can kill time reliving all the little moments that have consumed me over the past nine days. The picnic, of course, since that’s where everything started, but there’s been so much more since then. Long looks. Tiny, intentional touches across Perry’s desk. Random texts that have nothing to do with work. It’s all been very friendly. A little flirty, maybe, but nothing that would truly raise any eyebrows. At least not to anyone observing from the outside.

But between us? Every touch has felt like fire, every look so filled with anticipation, it’s a wonder we managed to get any work done.

A knock sounds on the door behind me, and I spin around, my heart hammering even faster than it already was, which is saying something.

I force a calming breath.

I can do this.

Everything is fine.

“You’ve got this, Lila,” I say as I move toward the door.

The sight of Perry on my doorstep does very strange things to my body. I’ve never seen him wearing anything besides work jeans and flannel. Now, he’s dressed for a party. Dark dress pants and a slim-fitting button down, the top few buttons undone. He isn’t wearing a tie, but he doesn’t need one.

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