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“It is new, but when you know, you know” And I kneas going to rabbed his wrist and slid it back up to my waist

“We know you’ve had many wonderful presentations today, but we also kno i impression, especially for your employees That’s why our ideas were so unorthodox When Zara and I are working together, we can’t help but create so for more”

He’s certainly taken the ball and run, sprinting, streaking across the field with it

“Should we go through the rest of the presentation?” I tried to steal away from Leo’s Mr Handsy routine

“No, it’s fine We’ve seen enough There were a few unorthodox things in your presentation, so let us talk it over If you’ll wait outside?”

We gathered up our presentation materials and walked out Leo dropped his hand to the suide me out of the door

The second the door closed, I whirled on hi my face as neutral as possible Everyone else was still standing outside the conference room

“What the hell was that?” I whisper-shouted, backing him into the corner with a smile on my face

“It’s called playing along, Gingersnap You’re the one who sprung the whole ‘hey, guess what, I?

?? deal”

“I insinuated it I was trying to be subtle” I raked ed in my hair, ripped out a few strands “I freaked, okay? We were losing her, so I looked for another angle Once she saw the ring, her eyes lit up and she was into it Checking us both out”

He squints “Hunter said she used to work in weddings before s”

My head whipped up “You had information on her and what she did before this and you didn’t tell me?”

He shrugged “Hoas that going to help us?”

“We could’ve tailored the presentation to play up ro, testosterone-fueled rave” My fingers flexed at my sides If his neck weren’t so thick…