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Jesus, what a dream

I’d never had one that vivid before, or where I’d coht train, or come at all for that matter

I needed that

Wanted desperately to have the real thing

Blinking atblue nu back at me A little past three am It was a bizarre time to send an email to human resources, but I didn’t want to wait anothermy cell, I blasted off a reply to the letter HR had sent me, a yes, and promised that I’d be in the office to I was exhausted frohts of Brandon fro full of typos When Brandon Duncan entered the equation, I couldn’t even think straight

Maybe I didn’t want to

And that was the scariest andpart of it all

Chapter Four

Brandon

I knew she’d be back

There wasn’t a woone to hell with Melanie, erly to our first date I had women et panties the moment I entered the room Hell, sometimes I had them ready to drop them the moment I whispered in their ears I liked it that way; craved it So, when Selena ca house the next day, I was far froet to know her better Yes, it was a dick hter’s friend Yes, I’d worked hard to rebuild my relationship with Ta about Selena, about her tongue tangling with s for myself

Besides, it wouldn’t hurt Tammy if she never found out

Yes, I kneas a selfish bastard, but that had been otten et ht nohat I desired was one Selena Cole, and I was going to have her too

For the first day or so, I’d let her have space Becky, one of Swagger’s top editors, was no special today Even if she were an intern, serving a slot intended for coffee runs and other assistant work no one usually wanted, I’d pulled strings to get her a front row seat covering a Vera Wang dress show It would be a great start to her bylines as a fashion writer but, of course, she’d have to be appropriately dressed for the part

That hatI took the elevator down a few floors and snaked er’s offices until I came to the samples room We received a lot of additional merchandise and test items in the hopes we’d be written up Beside the sa rooms set aside for when one of the staff had to write an evaluation of a product and try it on for themselves first