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Scorned by the Boss

by Maureen Child

“Seducing me is not going to work, you know.”

“Is that what I’m doing?”

She hoped so.

No, she didn’t.

Oh, hell. Yes, she did.

He took her wine glass from suddenly nerveless fingers. Setting it on the table behind him, he turned her in his arms and stared down at her for the longest moment of her life. She felt heat pour into her body.

“You know me so well, Caitlyn,” he said softly.

“Yes, I do,” she heard herself murmur, just before he lowered his mouth to hers. “Better than you know…”

The Texan’s Secret Past

by Peggy Moreland

“You listen to me, Jase Calhoun. I agreed to run your office, not your whole house.”

She marched to the kitchen. “If you think you’re going to turn me into your personal servant,” she warned as she twisted open a can, “you’ve got another think coming. I don’t need this job. In fact, I still don’t know why I agreed to come here.”

“Because you love me.”

Feeling his breath on her neck, she whirled, unaware that he’d moved. “As a friend,” she informed him, and pushed a hand against his chest to keep him from drawing any closer. “Nothing more.”

Hiding a smile, he reached to thread a tendril of hair behind her ear. “Are you sure about that?”