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“But inappropriate for our current situation, don’t you think?” she accused He grimaced and she further attacked, “I don’t want you here”

“I didn’t think you did”

Flustered and just wanting to escape to her office to regroup her thoughts without him there to witness, she asked, “Then why are you here?”

He took a long breath “That,story”

“I’”

Matthew raked his fingers through his inky hair, then glanced down the busy hospital corridor “Is there soo to talk?”

“Are you asking as my new boss?” Okay, her tone had been a bit snarky, but at the moment she didn’t care “Because otherwise,to say to each other Not ever”

“Natalie—”

“Don’t Natalie oodbye at the airport, I’ve been Dr Sterling to you Nothing o”

His expression taking on the dark and dangerous one he’d worn so well at the airport and on the plane, he nodded, as if her response didn’t surprise hiain, why should he be surprised? He’d knohat he was doing: stealing her dream job

“Fine As your new boss, is there somewhere we can talk in private?”

Without a word, Natalie led him down the corridor of offices When she came to the one with her name on the brass plate, she punched in a code, then twisted the handle

Opening the door, she paused, facing hi you in because you’re my boss now No other reason”

His expression just as terse as her insides felt, he nodded “Understood”

She moved aside, let hi if she could clai and upsetting her well-planned life