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Just like guys did in books
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“Is that better?”
“If I said no, will you keep going?” I raised lanced down at his crotch
He looked as if he were about to say so, but stopped hiotten sick orthat baby has addled your brain”
“Addled my brain? Settle down over there, Mr Darcy, no need for fancy words” I took the cheap laptop we used for stock taking and set it on the desk “Can you work a laptop, good sir, or should I call for your horse?”
He strolled across the room, deliberately slowly, and adjusted the belt of his jeans My eyes dropped to his hands and, by definition, his lower sto me
“I think I can figure out a laptop, ma’am”
“It was fun ‘til you called me ma’am”
He clicked his tongue “Yeah, kinda sucked all the joy out of it, didn’t it?”
“Little bit” I logged into the laptop and brought up the software “It’s pretty simple I have three boxes left frohtful business partners never got around to doing—”
“Probably because they knew you would”
“—So I’ to call out the number, you type it in the search bar just here” I tapped the screen “And then I’ll count, and you just log how ht here” Another tap “Think you can e that?”
“Can I take it to the sofa?”
I glanced at the sofa Saylor had just moved out here Mostly so she could read while she was pretending to organize stock “Sure As long as you don’t mess up my stock intake”
“That’s a lot of responsibility”
“So don’t mess it up,” I repeated
“This was a terrible decision,” Sebastianto the sofa
“I know”CHAPTER NINETEEN – HOLLEYrule nineteen: fake it even when you feel so I’ve ever done in my life”
“It’s really not that bad,” I said, locking the store behind us “And it only took that long because you messed up”
Seb huffed “I did not mess up”
“You said we had ten thousand copies of A Night to Remember We had three I don’t even kno you did that” I tucked the keys to the store in ain and it ay darker than I was happy with
Ivy and Kai had picked Tegan up alo Seb and I had been stuck in the back after he’d soed to create an entirely new for all our stock, then he’d inserted a whole new product line of takeout cups
Don’t tell him, but I really liked that idea
And I was going to take credit for it, so
It’d taken me half an hour to find and restore the software to a backed-up version which, of course, had taken us right back to the beginning