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“Um, Molly?” A hand waved in front of her face “Molly?”
Blinking, she forced her gaze away fros and toward the petite form of her best friend “What?” Her skin flushed until she wondered if her fantasies were visible to everyone in the room
“Youout?” Charlotte took a last tiny sip of her poh tables scattered around the roo sure all the files are in order for the new boss”
Molly scowled, all e to take it easy on weekends?” The fringe of the black flapper-style dress she’d pulled out of her closet in a moment of whiive Charlotte her co’s up to standard Anya’s job anyway?” It was Anya as personal assistant to the CEO; Charlie officially worked in the records depart Molly’s best friend as her own assistant
“New boss has a rep,” Charlotte said “I don’t want to be fired because Anya didn’t bother to do what she should” Narrowed hazel eyes behind fine wire-rimmed spectacles made it clear Charlotte had no illusions about the other woman
Nodding, Molly considered the cherry that decorated her nonalcoholic but very pretty cocktail “Let h her veins, but really, ould’ve happened if she’d stayed longer? Zilch Zero Nothing
Okay, od across the room, but that was it Even if he, for some wildly inexplicable reason of his own, decided he wanted her, the one thing Molly would never ever do was becoht She’d barely survived her first brutal brush with faliness of it had left scars that hurt to this day
“Oh, no, don’t” Charlotte put a hand on her ar tooat Mr Kissable”
Molly almost choked on the cherry, lush and sweet, that she hadn’t been able to resist “I’d say I can’t believe that caht not to dissolve into hter—“but you have been ”
Charlotte grinned as she took out her phone and texted a cab company “You knoho he is, don’t you?”
“Of course He’s only one of Thea’s azine that came across Molly’s desk at the library, all sleek erous, bitable lips If she couldn’t resist reading the articles and sighing over the photos, that was her guilty little secret
“You two talking about ain?” Her sister’s sultry voice sounded from behind Molly, followed by her slender body—currently clad in a tight red designer sheath
“About your raking-it-in client,” Charlotte clarified
“That’s über-client to you” Raising her chalass that held Molly’s frothy concoction “Here’s to rock stars with voices like sex and bodies like heaven”
Molly felt her stoh she kneas none of her business, said, “You sound like you’re speaking frorateful her voice came out steady
“Molly, m’dear, you know I never mess around with money” Her older sister’s uptilted eyes, a burnished broere suddenly dead serious “And Zachary Fox, known to his gazillion and one fans as Fox, and to any wo sex drive as hot with a capital H, is seriousdown her elass, she said, “Come on, I’ll introduce you both to him”