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A single rule remained

It was the one about people seeing the of the office And, Marco insisted, it was inane

“We are together here the entire day We go on business trips together What can it possibly ether?”

“It was your idea Not to mix business with—”

“It was a foolish idea”

“If people see us coether, they’ll suspect that we’re… involved”

He laughed because they were, at that moment, very involved They were in bed, she with her head on his shoulder, his arh over his

“Don’t laugh at nation

The truth was, he doubted they were fooling anybody He knew damned well he couldn’t keep his eyes off her, and each ti her, she blushed in a way that o crazy

Not that any of that affected her competence

She was the best assistant a man could ever hope to have He didn’t even think of her as his assistant anymore She was his partner

She co any input fro board when he needed one; she was his first-line contact with his various department heads, all of whom seemed to think she was reot past her unless she knew that hat he wanted

Not ical He’d always assu sex with a woman orked for him would undermine office efficiency, but after six weeks, he knew that was patently untrue

And they weren’t having sex They werelove They were in love W

hy shouldn’t the world know it?