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"Five hours ago," Jacobher suspicions

"And what did you do?" she asked casually as she added a spoonful of vanilla and cara pause before Jacob said, "It wasn’t my fault"

"What wasn’t your fault?" she asked, pouring a dab of crea

"H-he knows"

"Knohat?"

"About the plans,in her go still

"Where is he?" she asked in a bored tone as panic shot through her

She realized that he would have found out about the project sooner or later, but she was kind of hoping on it being later, after she had a signed contract with McGill so that he couldn’t interfere and take over Now she was going to have to hunt him down, kick his ass and make sure that he knew that this was her project and that it was off liure out how to convince them to let her do this Maybe she could -

"I think you and I should have a talk," Connor announced as he stepped into the office, holding a thick light brown folder

Thankful that he saved her the tirabbed her drink and headed for her office, knowing that he’d be right behind her

"Hey, what about nored him "Seriously, I have to use the bathroom If you could just make a little tear in the tape I’m pretty sure that I could-"

Connor closed the door behind him and walked past her to sit in her chair, but she was quicker She sat down and couldn’t quite bite back the s theoff on the right track, she mused seconds before he snatched the hot cocoa out of her hands, placed it on her desk, grabbed her good hand and gave it a yank

"Hey!"

He ignored her as he took her seat and yanked her back onto his lap Once he had her settled,trapped, he reached around her and picked up her cup of cocoa

"Don’t even think about it," she warned evenly as she struggled to get off his lap, but the arht where he wanted her

He ignored her and finished off her cocoa as she was forced to sit there, watching as her precious cocoa was stolen Once he was done he placed the coffee cup back on the desktop with a little more force than she felt was necessary and shifted her on his lap so that she was facing hi?" he asked as he leaned back in her chair, clearlyhimself comfortable as he studied her

"You’re an ass"

"Anything else?" he asked in a deceptively caler in his eyes

"Yeah, stop touching my cocoa," she said as she tried to climb off his lap, but he didn’t release her

"No Anything else you want to tella damp strand of hair away from her face