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"Heather?" Her assistant sounded worried about so sex in her office "Your parents are here"

Chapter Twenty-five

Oh God She’d forgotten about her father’s phone call earlier that week Working to try to keep her panic fro over, Heather looked down at herself, then over at Zach

"They’re going to knoe were doing"

What, she silently berated herself as shewas zipped and buttoned, had she been thinking, having sex in her office?

That was just the thing She hadn’t been thinking The second Zach had walked in, she’d lost all control of her synapses--and her hormones Her reaction to him was that instinctive, that priles he’d just put into her hair

"You look great, just like you always do" His ain before he said, "Don’t worry, Heather It’ll be all right" She just shook her head at hiot your back"

She didn’t kno he always ed to do that, to completely turn her inside out no lad for the way just one soft kiss--and a handful of sweetly confident words--had her unable to focus all of her energies on being completely freaked out about her parents’ visit

He put his hand on the doorknob "We’ve got this, Heather"

Strangely, even though they’d been caught barely seconds post-sex, she did feel a whole lot more able to deal with her parents with Zach than she norh by then not to be surprised by the way he had herhello Her father, however, was slightly less than his usual charain, had anyhim?

"Heather?" Her mother’s eyes moved from Zach to Heather, then to the desk they’d made a mess of "Is this a bad tiotten to put her shoes back on She h for her parents not to notice what she was doing

Her father pulled her into a hug before she could act fast enough to step out of reach "My precious girl How your irl, she’d loved the way he’d co her and tell her how much loved her, that she was the center of his world But she hadn’t been that na&iu time She knew better than to think anyone was the center of her father’s world but himself

Her father didn’t take his ar to make soed to Atlas stood up, his ruff bristling, and she was glad to be able to use him as a reason to"Does he sit in your office all day?"