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‘Your boss is already suss on you And even if he wasn’t, if you give your fake boyfriend a fake illness, you still have to deal with your amorous client all weekend’

Miller pulled a face ‘Don’t mistake TJ’s intentions as amorous They’re more licentious in nature’

‘Maybe so, but I’m sure Dexter’s are amorous’

Ruby was convinced Miller’s boss was interested in her, but Miller didn’t see it

‘Dexter’s married’

‘Separated And you know he’s keen on you That’s one of the reasons you lied about having a boyfriend’

Miller let her head fall back on her neck and h her teeth

‘I was co off the back of a week of sixteen-hour days and I was exhausted I ’

‘Emotional? You? Heaven forbid’ Ruby shivered dramatically

It was a standing joke between them that Ruby wore her heart on her sleeve and Miller kept hers stashed in one of the many shoeboxes in her closet

‘I was after syrumped

‘But Dexter did offer to go as your “protector”, did he not?’ Ruby probed

Miller sighed ‘A little weird, I grant you, but we knew each other at uni I think he was just being nice, given TJ’s drunken pronouncements to him the week before’

Ruby did her fa a boyfriend and now you have to produce one’

‘I’ll give him pneumonia’

‘Miller, TJ Lyons is a business powerhouse with a shocking reputation and Dexter is an alpha male wannabe And you’ve worked too hard to let either one of theo away this weekend and TJ makes athe unees for the next twelve months I’ve seen it happen before Men of TJ Lyons’s ilk are never pinned for sexual harassment the way they should be’