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"I know this is terribly rude ofto the phone in his hands "But I’ve just checkedtoo urgent, but Jo’s called with some names and dates I need for a conference call with Tony Would you--" he paused, eyes apologetic "I know you’re not my assistant, or underthe inforh of relief, both that there seeht be spared the pain of another two hours of this
"With pleasure," I said, taking his cell "These tea to do with my department Give me a job, any job, before I losethe conference roo and floor-to-ceiling glass Inside the space were a pair of white leather couches, a handful of sleek iron tables, and twochairs A wall of exterior s looked out over a street lined with restaurants and newly flowering trees I deposited an opening his phone
"One "
I startled at the sound of his voice in the doorway
"The passcode is my birthday--"
"Oh-six-oh-nine, I know," I blurted, and then blinked up to see hi smile "You should probably knoant the floor to eat hed "Perhaps I’uess if you stare at a person enough you pick up all sorts of things," I said, throwing in an aard cough for effect
But Niall only laughed again, shaking his head and throwing in another "thank you" before turning to leave "Oh and Ruby?" he said, pausing just at the door
"Yeah?"
"Be sure you listen straight through So andthere’s one at the end that’s particularly important"
"Got it," I said, and didn’t even pretend I wasn’t watching his butt as he walked away
From the sofa, I could see him perfectly He’d stopped at the refresh his seat, and I wondered if it was a trick of the light that htly flushed
Given that so side, I reached for my purse, happy when I foundinto the jack and placed one of the buds in es The first, predictably, was from Jo, and I listened while she rattled off a list of na dates, and carefully wrote each one down The second and third followed along the same lines, and within three minutes an entire sheet in my notebook had been filled
I looked up and checked into thewith a person seated nearby Without the benefit of his voice, I could see the way his mouth formed the words differently than those around him, his accent visible at a distance He used his lips er I wondered what it would be like to hear that voice at ho me what he needed