Dazzle her: Laws of Seduction Book 3 Read Online Free Page B

deliberately ignoring me. We might as well be perfect strangers. I resort to pulling out my phone so I can send him a text message.
    Alex saw me getting out of your car. I panicked. I’m sorry!
    I am sitting at my desk worrying about his lack of response when he walks up to my desk. Glancing at Nora and Patti, I watch their eyes widen in surprise. Anxiety creeps up my spine as I wonder what he will do.
    “Come on. We have a meeting with Mills.”
    “We do?” I ask in bewilderment.
    “Yes, Lainey. We do.” His jaw his clenched tight, and I realize he is still upset about earlier.
    When I continue to sit and gape at him, he huffs in exasperation. “Do you want to do this now… here?” His eyes wander over to Nora and Patti.
    That sounds ominous. Hoping to avoid a scene, I jump up and join him. He reels around and starts walking towards Mills’s office. I hurry to keep up with him. “Slow down, James. Do you want to tell me what this is all about?””
    He stops mid-stride, and turns to face me. “What this is about? This is about the fact that your friend Alex saw us together, and if one person knows about us, it won’t be long until everyone knows.”
    “Alex wouldn’t say anything. Besides, I am not even sure if he knew who…”
    James cuts me off. “It just takes one slip of the tongue. I want to be the one to tell Mills. I don’t want him hearing it from a third party.”
    He is right, of course. We were going to tell Mills tomorrow anyway. I put my hand on James’s arm. “Okay, let’s do this.”” Courage swells up inside me as I see James’s look of warm approval. “Does he know we are coming?”
    “Yes, he said he had a few minutes.” With that, James strides off again, but this time at a slightly slower pace.
    Mills has left his door open. We walk in and James turns to close the door behind us.
    “I didn’t realize this had to do with Hart too. Is this about the Rothschild account?” Mills asks while waving us to the chairs in front of his desk. James sits down and leans back, looking perfectly relaxed. I, on the other hand, perch on the end of my chair, looking nervously from one to the other. “Well, is someone going to tell me what this is about?” Mills says impatiently.
    Words completely fail me, and I just hope that James is not left in a similar state. I am flooded with relief when I hear James clear his throat and begin. “We would like to inform you…” James stops to regroup before beginning again. ““I would like to inform you that Ms. Hart and I are in a relationship.”
    We both look at Mills expectantly. Mills stares back at us uncomprehendingly. James clarifies, “A romantic relationship.”
    A look of dawning understanding spreads across Mills’s face. After looking back and forth between us, he folds his hands together and rests them on his desk. “This is not something that I like to hear, because as you know office relationships can often be quite disruptive. There is, however, nothing that should preclude two employees from seeing each other so long as one does not hold a supervisory position over the other. How long may I ask has this relationship been going on?”
    Since Mills was looking at me as he asked the question, I know he is thinking of the warning he had given me to stay away from James. I swallow my discomfort. “It’s been an on-again off-again thing for a while. When I started here, it was during an off phase, so I didn’’t think it was an issue. Then when it was on again, I didn’t want to become a source of office gossip. James convinced me that keeping our relationship a secret at the office was causing more harm than good.” I give James a reassuring smile.
    Mills raises his eyebrows. “So you knew each other before you started working at HM?”
    I twist the bracelet on my wrist. “Yes, we met last spring, but I didn’t know that James worked here until I saw him in the corridor.”
    “Hmm. Interesting. I will have to inform Human