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The last thing Tess wanted was to work with a man she’d slept with.

“But don’t you ever think about that night?” Slaid asked.

She forced her voice to sound steady, cool. “Just so you know, I don’t mix up my personal and professional lives.”

“After what we shared, you couldn’t at least leave a note? I didn’t even know your name.”

Tess wasn’t used to feeling guilt. She swallowed it. “Well, now you know it. And if you insist I stay, that is still all that you’ll know about me. Clear?”

Mayor Slaid Jacobs laughed, but it was a bleak sound. “Clear as day.”

“Okay,” she agreed. “Tomorrow, then. But I hope by then you’ll have reconsidered your choice.”

“Oh, no.” He sat back down in his chair, crossing his long legs with his boots up on the desk. “I choose you, Tess.”