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in the world she was doing in front of him, butt cheeks on a Harley.
    With every ounce of composure she could muster, Audrey straightened her spine. She tried not to focus too much on the cleft in his chin, or how the afternoon light ignited hints of gold in his dark red hair.
    She spoke the first three words that came to mind: “You’re an asshole .”
    The insult was out before she could take it back. Not that she wanted to, but the vehemence behind it jolted her. Maybe it’s the new clothes, she thought.
    Or maybe it was five years of anger finally getting a chance to vent.
    Kieran raised a brow at her. He opened his mouth, but she found herself leaning forward, the words coming hard and fast. “I’ve been waiting five years to tell you that. And I have no idea what you’re doing back in town, but you should leave this store. Right. Now .”
    Kieran’s wide mouth twitched. Audrey tried not to stare at the movement, tried not to think about how much she’d once loved that mouth.
    She narrowed her eyes. “Well? What do you have to say for yourself?”
    Kieran grinned—a goofy, toothy motion that had her insides fluttering.
    “Well, since you’re asking,” he said, his eyes traveling slowly along her body from head to toe, assessing her curves and attire like she was what he wanted to ride, “I suppose I should tell you that I’m your boss.”
    Audrey stared. “Excuse me?”
    “And calling me an asshole is grounds for firing.”
    Audrey’s brain buzzed, trying to process how in the world her ex-boyfriend was standing in front of her claiming to work here.
    Kieran Callaghan didn’t hold down steady jobs. He didn’t stick around anywhere for very long, in fact. That was a lesson Audrey herself had learned the hard way.
    She stared at the expensive leather jacket covering his broad shoulders, the fine cut of the jeans he was wearing, the thick silver watch on his wrist. Audrey had pictured Kieran in her mind’s eye a thousand times over the past five years. He had been both handsome and intelligent when they’d met, and she figured he’d simply become less so as time went on. In her imaginary picture of him, he’d grown thin and ragged. In her version, leaving her had been the thing that had broken him.
    In her wildest dreams he’d never improved. He was even more chiseled somehow, and his eyes held a depth—a wisdom—that unnerved her. Audrey’s breathing turned uneven, and it wasn’t just because of the corset.
    “I don’t believe you,” Audrey said, trying to keep the turbulent emotions off her face. “There is no way you work here.”
    “Now you’re accusing your boss of lying. You’re not really getting off on the right foot.”
    The rule-obeying part of Audrey’s brain raised an alarm. If there was a chance Kieran was telling the truth, she needed to shut up now. In fact, she’d needed to shut up five minutes ago when she called him an asshole.
    “It’s good to see you,” Kieran said slowly, his voice low enough so that Audrey swore she could feel the reverberations of it on her skin. “But we certainly can’t work together. I’m going to have to ask you to leave this position.”
    A roar started in Audrey’s ears. She reached out to the motorcycle to steady herself.
    Kieran Callaghan was not going to storm back into her life just so she could lose two jobs in two weeks. She was not going to just accept her pink slip and march out of here like the good girl everyone expected her to be. She was wearing eyeliner and stilettos, for crying out loud.
    Kieran might be inside this dealership looking altogether different, but, by God, so was she.
    “I’m not going anywhere,” Audrey said. She straightened on the back of the motorcycle. “I don’t care what your job is here. Do whatever you want. But this? Right here? Is my job .”
    She marveled at the words coming out of her mouth. As if she spoke this way to people in authority all the time.
    “Audrey, listen—”
    “No, you