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As they reached the car, Saan reached for the handle, and their fingers brushed lightly The sparks that ignited between the two of them were instantaneous and al back quickly, Saaze Her physical reaction to the boss was highly inappropriate, unprofessional and just plain wrong, but the heat that flato do would be to refuse the job and go back to San Antonio as fast as she possibly could Since that seemed a bit hasty, Sam hoped she could find a way to avoid hiht hat she needed and being within one hundred feet of him would make that nearly impossible

As she slid into the car, Saain, and she knew she had to stick to her plan She wasn’t i the heat she saw this time There was no way she could have predicted the stornited between the two of them, but she knew he felt it as much as she did She’d seen that look on a man’s face before, and if she wasn’tabout hoell she would perform at the job Neither was she

That was the problem

She let her hair drape her face as she broke eye contact, letting hi him as he moved to the driver’s side

She truly needed to consider what she would be getting herself into if she accepted this job This was her life If she did so so stupid as to believe she could balance both her career and aherself up for failure

Not only was he going to be her boss, which made him totally off linited within her

Da trouble here

Chapter Seven

Exactly two months to the day had passed since Sareed to stay on for a feeeks after her official transition, and in that tiathered her bearings in the organization

She reluctantly agreed to go to the happy hour they threw in his honor and Saers as they all said their final goodbyes to Jeff Only one, a tenured er named Tricia Shoenrock, didn’t see to Deanna, Tricia believed she was a shoe in for the position, and when she wasn’t even considered, the woht, Sam shared a couple of drinks with her new teaed, thanks to a trean for the most part Their only interaction had been when he insisted on buying her a drink when she was atte to sneak out early and avoid hi half an hour talking to hiht, she’d been relieved when he didn’t walk her to her car She wouldn’t have been able to control herself at that point and for the entire tiht hard to put the needed space between them

Outside of as absolutely necessary, strictly business of course, Sam tried to doany extra effort to have face to face contact with her either and that both disappointed and relieved her

She did find it difficult not to try and catch a gli Her office was at the opposite end of the building from his, but fro, where ence she would allow herself though

After accepting the offer, XTX had done what they proht out her apart Sam to select a nice, comparable apartment relatively close to the Dallas office

She didn’t want to do so a house just yet, at least not until she was convinced Dallas would be the right place for her, so she figured renting would be the best avenue to take It probably wouldn’t takefor her to make a final decision to stay in the area, but until that moment came, she wanted to play it safe

After a couple of weeks, Sas, established her routines and ensured her projects were on track Every Thursday she gave a project update to the ian

Luckily, with all of the work that surrounded her, she didn’t have an, she still had to report to him

Since she utilized Deanna’s assistance when she could, it didn’t take long before the two of theone to lunch at least twice a week for the last ht before to , it didn’t surprise her