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He thought about the other women who had been in his life His family If Dellina knew about all that, she wouldn’t be expecting a rational response But she didn’t know any of it and he preferred it that way
“You’re right,” he told her “I should have asked I reacted It was late and we’d had sex and this room scared the hell out of me”
She smiled “You run fast”
“I’ve had training”
Her s his attention to her”
“I noticed You’re in a lot of places You didn’t make it easy”
“I didn’t want to,” she admitted
“Then you must have been happy to find out about the party”
Her expression turned impish “A little”
Because getting the party together had fallen onto him Normally he would have simply hired someone But the only party planner in toas Dellina So he’d put off dealing with her as long as he could
“Now that you’ve had your fun at my expense,” he told her, “there’s still a problem to solve”
“Right Score is putting on a party for its best clients Three days of fun and frolic”
“Frolic? Did you really just say that?”
She pushed off the wall and walked across the hall “You know I did Co to have to pay ether in four weeks”
DELLINA WAS MORE relaxed having Saht Now that they’d dealt with the past and the aardness of that night, they could get down to business
He followed her into her office Unfortunately she hadn’t been prepared for visitors so there were stacks of papers everywhere She wanted to point out that usually she went to clients’ offices or the venue, but knew that one of the key rules of business was not to apologize unnecessarily There was plenty of time for that if she actually messed up
She reached for a pile of papers on a chair at the same time Sam did His hand settled on top of hers Instinctively, she looked at hiaze locked with hers Probably because of the roaring heat, not to le point of contact Unless only she was feeling the attraction, in which case he was probably wondering what on earth rong with her
She pulled back, as did he, and the pile of papers thudded to the floor
Dellina stared at thearound the desk “Leave them They can’t fall any farther”
Her office was in the smallest of the three bedroo desk in the middle There were a couple of chairs, two file cabinets, corkboard on one wall, aand a long table, which she mostly used to stack yet more piles One of these days she really had to co system
She sat down and reached for a folder She colored-coded her projects and the Score party was going to be cri that made her smile even if no one else noticed
“About the party,” she began, and picked up a pad of paper “What are you looking for?”
“Taryn ”
“She did, but I want toSo you tell et bored if it’s a repeat”
“How reassuring” He leaned back in his chair “We’re inviting twenty couples for a total of forty adults Between thees six to thirteen”
She began to write
“Our clients include sports celebrities, a company that manufactures rum and a jet time-share”
She looked up “A what?”
“A jet time-share Private jets?”
“I knohat they are”
“With a ti to ohole plane There’s an annual membership fee You can buy a hundred hours, two hundred Whatever you need”
She supposed that owning only part of a jet was better than having to pay for the entire thing If one were in the position to worry about that sort of thing She didn’t fly ain online
“Another client is an international headhunter” He paused, as if waiting for a question
“I knohat that is,” she told hie companies”
“Very good”
There was going to be a lot of ht as she tooksurprise The owners of Score were rich, successful guys Or in Taryn’s case, a rich, successful woman They would attract like clients She wondered why they’d chosen to settle in Fool’s Gold A quiet, fa to Taryn, the guys had been the ones to push for the et to so
Her gaze returned to Sam He was just over six feet, with broad shoulders and a lean, e Jack and Kenny were physically bigger While she preferred Sanore his hunky e and re to dazzle the partners and come aith both a healthier checkbook balance and a kick-ass recommendation
“The party starts Friday afternoon and goes until Sunday afternoon,” he said “We’ve got a block of rooe”
“Howrooms and other facilities?”
“I have that information back at the office I’ll email it to you”
“Great I’ll need to see copies of the contracts, as well So I can reviehat they’re expecting and what you’re expecting”
His htened “I reserved some rooms,” he told her “There’s no contract”