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It was officially so complicated And she was so dae Stupid, stupid celebrity nickname! JulErro Of all the ridiculous…

And it was only getting worse There was a website now With unauthorizedwith hers andsleek sparkly phone babies that possessed tech superpowers So dorky And if it hadn’t been about her she would have thought it was hilarious

“Assu inwith us both” She turned and stor Ferro as she went

“Why the fish, Calvaresi?” she said when he answered

“Why not? You liked it”

“I was et it in here? How aet it out?”

“That’s rude, Julia, you ift”

The whole conversation was so strange And so fro obnoxious Ferro, of the charht of that On the one hand, it was a nice thought Like they could erase that night in Alaska just by pretending it didn’t exist That all that honesty, that being skin to skin, hadn’t happened

On the other hand, in the week since their return, she’d thought of very little else And everything about her felt different She was ly aware When she took a shower, she turned herself on just by trying to get clean Because her mind automatically went to the way Ferro’s hands had felt on her The way the wet heat of his mouth had felt at her…

Her face burned and she turned her focus back to the salmon statue “It can’t stay here I have to meet with people here”

“And what’s wrong with a little natural art?”

“Bah!” She hung up the phone and threw it onto the low, cushy chair she had in the corner Then she stalked to her desk and plopped down on the computer chair, her head rested on her hands

Her desk phone rang She answered it “Julia Anderson”

“I’ to need to see your idea from the Barrows pitch ASAP”

“Ferro, I just hung up on you”