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Оглавление“You think I’m some kind of prank. An actress hired to—what? Pretend to have a meeting with you? Then strip out of my clothes?”
He’d started to get a funny feeling. “Well, yeah.”
She took a step toward him, and Jet would be lying if he didn’t feel as if, somehow, the joke was on him.
“Tell me something, what makes you think the engineer in question is a man?”
“All engineers in the oil industry are men.”
She took another step toward him. “There are actually quite a few women in the business. I graduated from Berkley with a degree in geology.” She took yet another step closer. “I interned for the USGS out of Menlo Park then moved back to Texas to get my master’s in engineering. My father was a wildcatter, and it was from him that I learned the business, so let me reassure you, Mr. Baron, I can tell the difference between an injection hose and a drill pipe. But if you still insist only men can be engineers, perhaps we should call your sister, Lizzie, who hired me.”
He couldn’t speak for a moment. “Oh, crap.”
Her extraordinary blue eyes scanned him, her derision clearly evident. “Still want me to strip?”
He almost said yes, but he could tell that he was in enough trouble as it was.
