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"Ah, yes they have, but only in the ive it to the man, he didn’t lack for confidence She could see hooular basis It was hard to believe that he’d been content to play house here for several weeks without asa lunchti

When everyone had finished breakfast, Nick insisted on driving them to the office in his van Suzy couldn’t help it, she still had to chuckle every ti side door for her Maybe Nick’s inner soccer et out for a while

Chapter Nineteen

Suzy couldn’t contain the sigh of contentment she felt when she walked or hobbled back in the door at Danver’s International She hadn’t realized howhere until she stepped out of the elevator and saw all of the familiar faces Nick had continued on up to his floor while she and Beth were noalking towards the reception area and a set over the transformation there Ella really was beautiful now, and her personality seeed as well

She’d frankly found Ella annoying and tried to avoid her Now that people were finally seeing her, Ella seemed to have lost the need to constantly seek attention and approval Her sister had done a good thing there Suzy s Ella"

With a shy sood to have you back"

"Please Ella, call me Suzy I think we are past all of the formalities now I’ll even try to curb my four-letter words in front of you today"

"Th…That’s ok, Ms…er Suzy, I’ve gotten used to that here This is a very colorful place to work"

"Colorful huh? Yeah, I like that"

Beth followed her down the hall to her office and Suzy was surprised to see how organized everything was Her desk was always rather like organized chaos She assues on one corner, put her files in alphabetical order on the other corner and set a status update on all of their current projects in the center

"Wow sis, did you do all of this?"

"Uhten your desk sos" Then rolling her eyes, Beth said, "I know you’re a little anal about your paperwork so if you want to put it back the way it was, I can do that"

Suzy couldn’t contain her laughter "Did you just call me anal? Beth Denton, I know you didn’t use that dirty "

"Like Ella says, this place rubs off on you Now master what do you want to start on today?"

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They worked steadily through thetraining conference The first hour she was in her office, it see had dropped by with their ishes Claire and Jason had stopped by a short while ago and she’d er than when she’d seen her last week Suzy was afraid she was going to explode at any moment Jason followed her around like a mother hen, obviously worried out of his mind about her She didn’t kno the poor man would make it until the baby was born; he looked like he was close to a nervous breakdo

Gray called just before she was leaving for lunch and her heart skipped a beat when she heard his sexy voice on the phone "Hey, baby, how is your first day back?"

"Hi yourself, you sexy reat so far Did youwithout breaking too many laws?"

"I cut it a little close, but Ihis voice to that sexy ruht wasYou blow me away baby Every time I take you, I just want you thatyou, even after last night, I ache for you"

What girl could hold out against so in pleasure at his words "I kno you feel, slick, I can think of at least a dozen things I’d like to do on this desk right now and none of theo there baby I really don’t want to go towith an erection; they frown on stuff like that Sooo, what’s the rest of your day like?"

"Just finishing up sos for a few events, how about you?"

"The lunch , well, u dinner with Reva"