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Pilar is staring at me as if she wants to smack me across the face Can’t say that I blame her, especially when all I can think of is the way Violet signs off her emails I like the use of "yours" It’s cute and perhaps even a subesture As if she really wants to betoo much into it, but the word choice is sexy as fuck, even if she didn’tattention Too wrapped up in thoughts of what? Fucking around with Violet? I’htful" Pilar stands and approacheswith fire, Big Daddy And you’re going to go up in flames if you don’t stay focused and on the ball"

"I’m one hundred percent focused," I tell her assuredly On Violet,ives me another pout, but I don’t even blink an eye It et under my skin

"You have Lawrence to distract you," I tell her "You don’t need me Enjoy him these next few days Fuck his brains out and then drill hiaslow I kno you operate"

She smiles at me, the very picture of peaceful and serene What a pack of lies Inside that devious head of hers she’s trying to co me "I could have the best of both worlds if you weren’t so jealous"

"Sorry, not going to let you touch me after you just had your hands all over Lawrence’s dick" A man can only tolerate so much

"Disgusting pig" Pilar stands to her full height, snarling at me "You’re all the same TheZachary Lawrence"

"Really? Well, learn to live with this, Pilar" I cup ether and lean forward,Violet Fowler"

"In your dreairl is as tight as a virgin kept under lock and key And closed off like a little ice queen, too Zachary told me she’s a terrible lay"

More like he’s an awful, selfish asshole who didn’t kno to meet Violet’s needs "I’ll find out if that’s true or not onThank Christ "You don’t listen tobaby Can’t wait to see how she puts the spark in your eyes while I’et"

I ignore what she said, which I knoill drive her crazier than if I acknowledged it and continued the fight "We’ll talk later," I say to her as she leaves and she givesout the door

"Maybe I never want to talk to you again Ever think about that, asshole?" she calls from the hallway

Huh That went terribly I rublike hell not too ued like this before around the halls of Fleur, but it’s been a while I take ether Like I’m worthy of the London position--or one siot the offer was for being involved with Violet It gave hi love to have

Well He isn’t with Violet any longer I’m about to be Secretly, but still Soon we’ll be out in the open Soon I can cozy up to Forrest Fowler Get into that man’s back pocket so he’ll really see what an asset I am to the coet

Chapter Eleven

Violet

I tap aze locked on the numbers above the door The countdown takes forever and I suck in a loud breath, drawing the attention of more than a few of my fellow Fleur employees in the elevator with et out of the elevator and ry At least, not for food

The elevator slows and then stops, the doors sliding open with a s a fewwhat I’ on the tenth floor when most are on their lunch hour

I don’t care what they say What they think I already have an excuse prepared if anyone asks It’s a lunchWe’re both so busy that our jam-packed schedules only allowed us to s over lunch This is nothing new

But it is nee’re really doing I’ve never had a lunch … rendezvous A nooner An affair Dalliance Whatever sordid word you want to call it

Co to a halt in front of the tenth-floor reception desk--which is abandoned, thank goodness--I restheart beneath h with this I broke up with Zachary only a few days ago He stopped et , anything for a bit of time alone with me