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CHAPTER ONE

I’m elbows-deep in invoices when a shadow falls across my desk

“Just aup My pen scratches across the paper, slashing through the nu up “Leda Collins called and changed high above our headsyher head count again Now she needs twelve round tables and ten extra chairs I told her there’d be a rush charge on the additional linens, but she said she was fine with that”

I push a loose strand of hair behindat this latest batch of invoices for so long thatto cross

“Have you heard fro to my computer “They were supposed to call and confirure out e’re doing the suallery show next year I already have a bride ants to use us for her reception in—”

A hand grasps me fir into a pair of dark, intoxicating eyes, and my breath hitches in my throat

“What’s this?” says a deep, fa?”

Even noeeks after I broke onto his faha extra sexy right now, the broad line of his shoulders accentuated by his navy suit, his hair curling deliciously around his ears, the corner of his perfect lips curled up in a

“Shit!” I say, pulling out of his grip I scrabble around on the desk, looking for my cell, but I already knohat the time will say When I do find the phone, buried beneath a file of class registration forms, the screen reads 6:53PM

Shit Shit shit shit

“I swear, the last tilanced at the ti frantically for ht on the makeup—

Calder catches me as I try to sweep past him and draws ainst his chest,at the s the crook of his neck I freeze, and he loops his arms around my waist and holds me there He s scent I take a deep breath, breathing hi since he’s held me like this in his arms

Okay, it’s only been three weeks Three weeks since Calder chased e maze on his former estate Three weeks since I’ve had hih to touch Three weeks since his fingers skiht now Those three weeks ht as well have been a ">I roll my eyes But of course, screw-up that I am, I lose track of time on the day of our first real date

“I’m so sorry,” I say “I swear, I—”

He silences entle at first, hesitant, like he’s uncertain how I’ll respond after our tiht our bodies feel against each other But the minute his lips touch mine, my entire body co the waves of heat that rush just beneath the surface of my skin I let out a small moan, and whatever doubts Calder had seem to disappear

He yanksrily, desperately, against my own, and mine er to drink it all in

Damn, I missed this

He’s backing ainst my desk now, and I don’t protest when he pushesfalls to the floor beside us My files? The invoices? Honestly, I don’t care One of Calder’s hands moves around the sers twisting and pulling at the strands He leans over hs apart so he can press nearer There’s a clatter as so this time—probably that dinosaur of a three-hole punch we’ve had since this place opened