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“Then we’ll address all the eement If you’d like them all to know that you were named VP of Finance because you“I don’t think it’s se, but that’s your call”

Her eyes widen for ato Perez?”

“The sa that will happen to Shane and all the other VPs They’ll go quietly if they want their very lux severance packages If they resist…let’s just say we both kno to keep them quiet”

I’ainst each of the, and I’do VPs will learn quickly that I have no hesitation in using their ainst them

“You’re a bastard”

“That should be no surprise” But if she’s resorting to na, it means she has no better defense, and I’ve won “Last chance Are you going to letto flaunt for all your fellow employees and new subordinates that you’re in bed—literally—with the enemy?”

Sloan does her best to blank her expression, but there’s a mutinous line to her mouth and a fire in her eyes as she jerks the bachelorette party favor fro off the plastic chain When I hold out e of the diaes me, I refuse to wince

Shoeakness

I give her a saccharine srip “You’re mine from thisonto her finger, gratified to see it there It fits perfectly, as if it were ratulations”

“Fuck you”

I tsk at her “That’s no way to talk to your fiancé”

She scoffs “That’s the only way I’ll talk to a bastard like you”

Sloan ry now…but that fire will burn out And she’ll soon realize the torch I’ for her isn’t one she can snuff out

I lean closer “Fair warning: I’ to make you fall in love with me”

Sloan laughs at me like I’m delusional “I’ll fall in love with my vibrator way before I fall for you”