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She dropped her beach bag on the kitchen floor and went straight to the refrigerator Why hadn’t she stopped for a sandwich on the way ho stuck on the beach with Brant had thrown her whole evening off She grabbed the container of leftover spaghetti froht and popped it in the microwave to heat while she showered off
After her shower, E T-shirt and panties and towel-dried her hair As et the sand off She couldn’t stand having it on her furniture Before settling down to eat her leftovers, she rued in her bookcase and found her senior yearbook With her ten-year high school reunion coht she would take a trip down es and saw pictures of friends she hadn’t talked to in years, she turned the page and noticed a booklet nestled there Flipping it over, she saw the caption STUDS OF SUMMER Ee calendar that her friend Madison’s boyfriend, Paul, had been featured in The fraternity that had the calendar printed had been raising raduation trip to Hawaii Each month, a different fraternity brother was listed with soes laughing as she passed Paul’s pose as Mr Septee, she wasn’t sure what made her pause to study Mr December He was dark and sexy His hair was rumpled in an "I’m too sexy to care" kind of way He appeared cos covered the fa on what looked like a black silk-covered bed with an ar the ca look The caption read "Mr Decehty boy This bad boy would love to deck your halls with his boughs of holly" Emma rolled her eyes at the poor attempt to defile Christmas She took one last look and suddenly it hit her No fucking way! It couldn’t be, could it? She finally knehy Brant had looked faht, sarcastic, arrogant ass of a boss was freaking Mr Decehter She hadn’t been this excited since Macy’s put the pair of platfor for months on clearance Man, that had been an awesos she would do to hi back to work toet in there and start baiting hi would it take for hiht, and she didn’t need boughs of holly to do it
Chapter Three
Emma arrived for work fifteen minutes early the next day with the Starbucks coffee that Brant had suggested He was already at his desk when she gently placed the cup in front of hiht explode at any raced hihtest smile "Here’s your coffee as requested Don’t worry; it doesn’t contain any dairy product"
"Erthank you I appreciate it" Then, clearing his throat, he said, "I trust you’re feeling better today after your headache yesterday"
Es back on norround, but she refused to rise to the occasion He deserved to sweat it out for a bit longer "Oh yes, after getting all ‘decked’ out for work this , I felt much better"
Obviously confused, Brant studied her for aher a file "Could you please fax this for me and then finish the presentation for Gray by this afternoon?"
"Of course, Brant, I’ll get right on it" She s was busy and she didn’t have another chance to heckle him until later on
"Emma, you inverted the last two numbers on this report; could you please correct it?"
As he alking away from her desk, Emma snickered to herself "Whoops, that wasn’t nice at all In fact, it was very naughty of me, wasn’t it?"
Brant stopped and turned back to her "Did you do it on purpose or so her head, Eiveelse as he walked back into his office She gave herself a hty and nice into the conversation But the boughs of holly were going to be more difficult Why couldn’t it be December now instead of July?
When she stuck her head in his office before lunch, he was on a call and just waved her away She gave hi She had a rateful that Myrtle Beach had a year-round Christ the kind saleslady when she showed her the rack of Santa hats in the back of the store
She grabbed a quick burger to eat in the car on her way back to the office Her cell phone rang and seeing her mother’s name on the caller ID made her bite off a curse The woman always seemed to knohen she had five extra minutes, and Kat Davis hated for anyone to have idle tio to voice et it over with in the privacy of her own car Clicking the answer button, she said sarcastically, "Yes, Mommy"
Her mother chuckled "I assume you’re on your lunch hour?"
"Mmm, yes, but would it bother you if I weren’t?"
"Probably not, dear, but I thought I would check So anyway, I was in Belk’s thisfor a neiet a bikini I found a fabulous one with ain the irls The bottos on the side like you wear It looks a!"
"Um, okay I’, her mother continued on, almost in the same breath "So, that isn’t why I called While I was at the an You remember David, ent to school with you, don’t you? I know he didn’t haveon upstairs, but the boy was hot and still is I saw hi to the reunion next et you in with hi as he looks good on your arht?"