How to Lasso a Billionaire by Katharine Sadler

Author:Katharine Sadler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Tessa glared at Jude from the other side of the desk. "Want to explain why you didn't want to introduce me to your new assistant?"

Jude considered lying, but he'd heard Brianne when she'd shouldered the blame for his distance and his bad mood. He wouldn't throw her under the bus to save himself. "I needed to remind myself that my new assistant is off-limits. I haven't quite figured out how to be around her." At least during office hours. At least until he could figure out how to control himself when she was in the same building as he was.

At least until he could get his emotions back to normalcy. A level at which he wouldn't spend the evening in a jealous snit, wondering who she was with and why she wasn't answering his messages. He'd been a bit short with her the day before, because he hadn't trusted himself not to touch her, not to drag her into his office and kiss her if he really looked at her, if he heard her voice soften when she said his name.

He'd planned to take her out after work, but she'd been gone by the time he'd gotten back to the office and he'd spent the evening imagining all kinds of steamy scenarios between her and some other man. He'd even called Mark to make sure she wasn't with him.

She wasn't Jude's. She was free to do whatever she wanted with whomever she wanted, but the idea of someone else with his hands on her, kissing her... The mere thought had made it impossible for him to focus on a damn thing.

Bri could destroy him without even trying and that was more control, more power, than he could ever feel comfortable with anyone having over him.

Then he'd gotten a message from accounting about an irregularity in the numbers and his first thought had been Max. Even if Brianne was innocent, Max could still use her, unknowingly, to get to him again. That had been his first thought, and he'd hated himself for it. He believed Brianne had known nothing about Max's theft, and he trusted her. At least, he wanted to trust her, but his subconscious wasn't quite there, yet. The irregularity appeared to be a one-time thing, possibly a mistake at the cashier level at one of his restaurants, but he'd called in Tessa anyway.

Tessa narrowed her eyes. "It's not difficult, Jude. You introduce your cyber security expert to your assistant, and we all make polite niceties. It's not like you had to tell either of us all the filthy things you want to do to her."

"It doesn't matter. It won't happen again. How is Nicholas?"

"He'll be very interested in the fact that you are human after all and so entirely befuddled by the opposite sex."

"You could have set him straight." Jude had been good friends with Tessa since college and Nicholas had never shown any jealousy. He didn't need to. Tessa was like a sister to Jude. "And I'm not going to talk about my new assistant.

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