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Reaching into the large paper bag I’d carried in with old flowers in them I had no clue what type of flowers they were, nor did I care I bought therocery store for Minnie, to show hertwice now helped me to see Sutton unannounced

“These are for you,” I told her with a flourish as I handed them across the desk

Her eyes lit up with joy as she reached out and took the vase “Oh, Alex…you devil, you How did you know mums were my favorite flower?”

I had no clue what a mum was, but I never missed a beat when I flashed my pearly whites and said, “You just seeant and classic ”

My compliment struck deep because Minnie flushed red and batted her eyelashes for a aze hardened a bit as she stared at ested?”

Shaking the brown paper bag so the contents inside rustled, I said, “Yup Just as you suggested ”

S at me conspiratorially, Minnie stood frooes back to Sutton’s office “That’s a good boy You’ll steal her heart for sure ”

I already had her body I suppose her heart was up for grabs too, but did I really want it? I never wanted anyone else’s before, but there’s no doubt…Sutton is different

Minnie unlocked the door and ushered oodbye I practically ran down the hallway toward Sutton’s office, erness to see her When I reached her office and looked in,her hair long and loose, coppery ainst the soft gray of her silk blouse She had on a pair of glasses and I was momentarily shocked, because I didn’t know she wore them

My presence in the doorway alerted her and she looked up at ht She stood up fro here?”

I stepped inside her office, dropped the brown bag on a chair and closed the door I wanted privacy for what I was about to do

Within a few steps, she was in my arms and I first kissed her on top of her head “I couldn

’t wait until tonight to see you ”

“Well, now, that just makes my day,” she mumbled with her face in my chest before she pulled back to look at me, her smile just as radiant

“Has anyone ever told you that you look slasses?”

She was utterly fking adorable when she blushed over my compliment and reached up to take them off “Geez…I look like a dork with the a lot of computer work ”

“You look beautiful…with or without thelasses from her hand and set theht the the silky softness of her skin It had struck me clearly that I had never touched a woman like that before Sutton It felt bold and intimate all at the sa as I felt right then

I couldn’t fking help myself—I bent down and claiht of day, in her place of work, where anyone could walk in at any time