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"I realize I’ around ready to be used when you need me, set aside when you don’t"

Jesus Did Ainsley really just compare herself to his saddle? And what the fuck was up with that "be used" comment?

She flounced to the bedrooned to give hi opera dressed like this Where do you think I’ hoht I need to check onand wash clothes All things I’ve neglected, because I have a life besides the one I spend bound for your pleasure"

That s to see how much hotter you can make the water you’re already in, sub?"

"No Sir, Bennett, Sir," she snapped off with her "You told ether We have this weekend I think I deserve a furlough"

And it’d been one of the best weekends he could reer e from her like a poisonous cloud Hey wait Had she just coot a busy week, so I’ll call you Orskills" She threw the rope at him and disappeared down the hallway

Maybe you’ll callskills? Oh hell no That would not fly with him

Ben heard the door slam By the time he made it outside, her car was halfway up the drive

Oh, little sub, you’ve just landed yourself in a whole passel of trouble

Chapter Fifteen

Ainsley spent all day Monday on the phone with Chase McKay’s publicist and going back and forth with Steve Talbot, president of Settler’s First Bank They’d co the local event as a platform for Chase to announce his new charity Steve’s attempts to cut National West out of the event entirely displeased Mayor Mark, who cha a united front to the community

So at the end of the day, she felt she’d acco So much of her duties as bank president were busy work Seemed she spent her life on the phone

Not that she er assured Ainsley that the bulk of her job would be sch business to National West Ainsley could handle PR; it’s what she did best She figured the event would show the locals that this bank was interested in investing in the community In the nextthe benefits of diversifying their banking needs

During her divorce, she’d needed a career change Intrigued by the , she’d taken over a small branch office in a low-income suburb of Denver no one else wanted to tackle Deter, she’d approached every business, big and s up the benefits of banking locally She used the bank’s allotted community funds to resurrect small community events that were underfunded, but e i locals of her sincerity The hard work, the unpaid hours of overtime, had paid off In that year she’d increased that branch’s business banking operation by twenty-five percent and the personal banking business by thirteen percent Quite a coup for a woman who’d spent the previous six years as a PR assistant

Now here she was in Sundance, basically starting over again With her PR savvy and Turton as the bean counter, on paper they looked like an unbeatable teao But in reality, Turton was bitter Ainsley had been awarded the job And she still hadn’t figured out the best way to deal with him

Jenny knocked on her door "Sorry to interrupt, but there’s an extre in the lobby Turton tried to help her but she refuses to talk to anyone but the bank president"

"I’ll be right there" Ainsley set aside the stack of files, and straightened her short suit jacket as she itated woman met her at the office door "Are you the bank president?"

"Yes I’m Ainsley Hamilton What can I do for you?"

"Don’t treat me like an idiot, for starters"

Okay So she was testy "I’d appreciate the sae eyes were a pale shade of blue that iven the woamine features "Sorry I’m Joely Monroe"

"Well, Miss Monroe, let’s talk into drink?"

"I don’t suppose you’ve got vodka?"

Ainsley ot coffee Water Hot tea?"