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guess.  We’re looking for someone to run the desk for the evening shift.  Dante, he’s my brother, he runs things in the evenings, but it’s not like he can sit out here and check people in.  Hours would be three to eleven, with a half hour break and some O.T. on the weekends if you’re up for it, but we’re not open fully on the weekends like we are during the week.  Duties are typical, checking people into the computer system, answering the phone, directing clients around and setting up sessions with the trainers.  We can offer you twelve an hour to start and there’s full use of the gym, not during work of course, and um, I think that’s it.  Do you think you might like to take the job?”  Oh please say yes.
     
    She looked surprised.  “Well, yes, of course.  I need a job and I’m good with customers, so this is right up my alley.  Except I’m not really a gym bunny or anything.”
     
    “What’s a gym bunny?”
     
    “You know, the girls who spend all their free time at the gym?  I don’t know much about this kind of place.”  She took a drink of water with a small, nervous laugh. 
     
    “Don’t worry about that, I’ll be happy to teach you.  And anyways, you look perfect.”
     
    She blushed, her pretty light skin flushing pink.  “Thanks.”
     
    He cleared his throat.  “If you’ll just give me a minute, I’m going to talk to Dante.  Sit tight.”
     
    “Okay, Mason.”
     
    With a glance back, he drank her in one more time.  No way could he let her leave the building without the job.  Dante had to approve.
     
     
     
    * * * * *
     
     
     
    Cairo’s phone wouldn’t stop beeping.  Somehow he’d set an alarm or a timer and he couldn’t figure out how to get it to stop.  Punching the buttons in frustration, he growled as he walked into the breakroom, looking for Mason to fix it.  What he found instead was a beautiful woman sitting at one of the tables.
     
    “Hi.”  He tucked the beeping phone into the side pocket of his cut-off sweats, suddenly unhappy he wasn’t wearing anything nicer.  She was a complete stunner.
     
    “Hi.”  She looked nervous.
     
    “Oh, are you here for the interview?”  Damn beeping phone.
     
    “Yes.  Are you Dante?”
     
    “Oh, hell no, I’m Cairo, the middle brother.”
     
    She smiled.  “I’m Alyssa.”
     
    “Why did Mason leave you here by yourself?”  Easing into one of the chairs across from her, he tried not to ogle her, but damn it was hard.  Pretty brown hair, warm brown eyes with thick lashes, and a totally kissable mouth.  She looked soft and natural, without layers of makeup and overly revealing clothes.  She looked...perfect.
     
    “He went to talk to Dante.”
     
    “Ah.  So, are you new to town?”
     
    She fidgeted suddenly, and he wondered what her story was.  “Is there something wrong with your phone?” she asked instead.
     
    “What?  Oh yeah, I was going to ask Mason to take a look at it.  I think I set an alarm or something.”  He pulled the phone out and she held out her hand.
     
    “I have this one,” she said as she took it from him and began clicking around on the screen.  She leaned over the table slightly and showed him how to cancel the alarm.
     
    “I could just have you fix it for me next time,” he said, after thanking her.
     
    “Sure, if I get the job.”
     
    Oh, she was going to get the job, that was for damn sure.  He couldn’t put his finger on it, but he had a gut feeling that Alyssa belonged there.  Maybe it was just because it was October, and in a few months it would be winter and they’d be in their lonely den, or maybe it was because the soft, honeyed scent of her called to him on a cellular level.  Whatever it was, there was just something about her.  She needed to stick around.
     
    Mason appeared in the doorway, giving him a strange look that might have said ‘hands off’ if they weren’t the sharing sort, and said, “Come on, Alyssa, Dante’s