Powerful Boss, Prim Miss Jones by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams [Williams, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780263877977
Google: sBJbK-X1q0EC
Amazon: 0263213390
Publisher: Harlequin Mills and Boon Ltd.
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘YOU’RE late.’ Andreas looked pointedly at his watch as Elizabeth pushed open the door to the office forty-five minutes after she should have been there. Under normal circumstances, this would not have been a problem for him. With ultra-efficiency, she had made sure that everything he needed for his reports—right down to miniscule logistic details that even his more experienced secretary in London would have omitted—were ready before he had switched on his computer at seven in the morning. Which meant that she had emailed him the information way after official closing time. He should not even have noticed her late entry, because in his world closing a deal was always the only thing that mattered.

Unfortunately for him, focusing had proved impossible. In fact, in the week since they had become lovers, she had managed to wreak havoc with his concentration levels, so it could be said that ‘normal circumstances’ had been put on temporary hold.

She’d point-blank refused to condone any risky behaviour while she was working with him, even though he had assured her that this was definitely one occasion when he would freely mix pleasure with business.

‘A desk,’ he had told her invitingly, ‘would be a hell of a lot more interesting with you sprawled on top of it, fully dressed except for your knickers. I needn’t even leave my chair! You would just need to open your legs and I would be at the perfect height to sample what’s on offer between them with my mouth…’ She had laughed, blushed and refused, at which point he had attempted to interest her in the sofa by the bookcase or even his large, leather swivel-chair. Both items of furniture had met with the same negative response. Andreas didn’t get it.

‘I wouldn’t dream of issuing an offer like that to anyone else who worked with me. In fact, it’s a personal rule of mine never to mix business with pleasure.’

‘And it’s a brilliant one. Inter-office relationships muddy the waters.’

‘Are you speaking from experience?’

‘Only as a spectator.’

‘I don’t think you understand. The fact that I’m willing to make you the exception to my rule should be viewed as the highest compliment.’

It had been viewed with a shake of her head, the slow purr of her computer being switched on and that prim crossing of her legs which did crazy things to his libido.

It was damned frustrating. Was it any wonder that he was constantly distracted? For the first time, his work was taking second place. He didn’t like it, but sleeping with her had unearthed a vein of stubbornness that he hadn’t noticed in her before. He had had to fall in with her ridiculous rules and regulations about keeping their work-space sacrosanct.

Was it some sort of wily game she was playing? Was she stringing him along because she thought it would be the fastest way of keeping him interested? Was she a cunning gold-digger who had now dropped his godfather off her hit list so that she could focus her attentions on him instead? He couldn’t have cared less.

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