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tissues and slowly began to clean himself.
    “ I believe I just did that,”
he said, quirking an eyebrow at her.
    “ The question is why did I
have an audience?”
    It wasn’t until he began to tuck his
member away and zip up his pants that her muscles finally
relinquished control back to her brain.
    She scrambled up to her feet as Rossi
stood from his chair and began to walk over to her.
    “ This isn’t what it looks
like,” she said, her voice coming out in an embarrassing squeak as
she scrambled back towards the door and away from Rossi’s stalking
gait.
    “ I…I was just going to leave
you my report and was about to leave when…” her voice trailed off
as she struggled to come up with a plausible excuse for her
presence in his office.
    “ When you had an urge to
hide behind my couch?” Rossi asked in a dry tone as he leaned
forward to place his hand against the door and effectively trapped
her against it.
    “ Yes! I mean no. That’s not
what happened,” she stammered pressing her back against the door
and fumbling for the door knob.
    “ I was going to leave, I
swear. I didn’t intend…”
    “ To take in a show instead,”
he asked as he chuckled softly.
    “ Uh no, but I didn’t see
anything,” she said. “Really,” she stated at his raised
brow.
    “ You understand how this
situation changes this relationship don’t you?” he asked, pulling
back from her and placing his hands in his pocket.
    He rocked back on his heels and
studied her. He watched as a panicked expression spread quickly
across her face
    “ No,” exclaimed Veronica.
Her eyes were wide as she ceased her struggled with the door
knob.
    “ No,” she repeated shaking
her head. “This doesn’t change anything,” she stated.
    “ I don’t see how it
doesn’t,” replied Victor.
    “ The application is almost
finished,” she went on ignoring his comment.
    “ You can’t fire me now. We
have a contract,” she said.
    “ You have to agree that the
dynamic here has changed,” he said shaking his head at
her.
    “ It doesn’t have to,” she
insisted, “We can just pretend this never happened. It doesn’t
change anything.”
    “ I don’ really
see…”
    “ I’m serious. We can just
wipe the slate clean. The first presentation to the VPs is tomorrow
and the application is half way done,” said Veronica.
    Victor tuned out the rest of
Veronica’s rambling and stared into her eyes, seeing the
desperation behind her words. She was assuming that he wanted to
end their professional relationship but that was far from the
truth.
    Veronica had saved the project and
regardless of the current situation, he was enough of a business
man to not let it interfere with completing the project. Too much
time and money had been invested and regardless of his attraction
to her, Victor had every intention of offering her a retainer
position with his company.
    She was extremely bright and focused.
He would be a fool to not recognize such obvious talent. However,
Veronica didn’t seem to see that. Thinking he could use this to his
advantage, he held up a hand to silence her and chose his words
carefully.
    “ Tomorrow’s meeting is
cancelled,” he said sternly.
    “ But…”Veronica rushed to
interrupt.
    “ I won’t end your contract
just yet,” he continued as if she hadn’t spoken.
    “ The company has waited this
long for the application we can wait and additional week. I need
some time to decide whether I still want to move forward with
having you lead the team,” he said as he turned to walk back to his
desk.
    He sat down and stared at Veronica
from across the room. She seemed rooted to the floor with a look of
pure panic on her face.
    “ I don’t appreciate being
spied on Ms. James,” he said when it looked like she would speak
again.
    He watched as she firmed her
lips into a tight line. He could see a spark of anger flare in her
eyes as she clenched her fists at her side. Fuck, but she is hot when she’s angry , he thought