―How are you Miss Shayne?‖ said Oscar, Max‘s driver as he held the door.
―Fine Oscar,‖ she paused, ―I can‘t believe you still work for this guy,― She teased.
―Get in the car Lily.‖ Came Max‘s voice from the dark interior causing her to laugh and Oscar to smile.
―You do now too, so don‘t knock it.‖ He grinned causing his cap to slide up on his brow a bit making him reach up and 20
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―Rightly said.‖ She answered ducking in the car.
Oscar closed the door behind her.
―You are definitely not winning any brownie points.‖ Max said with a mock glare, glancing up from the computer screen he had on some sort of extension out from the side of the car. He sat against the leather seat with his long legs crossed at the knees.
When her eyes first set on him, she near lost her tongue.
He was wearing a navy suit, yellow shirt and striped tie. His hair was neatly combed and she was certain not one ebony strand was out of place. The whole aura he gave off at that moment gave the impression of a powerful, wealthy man completely in control and confident in his abilities.Not to mention the overwhelming feeling of masculine appeal that seemed to just be tossed on her like a bucket of warm water.This time she faltered in her defences and found herself stuttering, ―I—I was teasing.‖Her shaky voice brought his eyes back to hers and slowly a smile formed on his handsome face as his grey eyes studied hers.In her defence, she‘d never seen him dressed for business.She‘d only known him outside of work and thankfully so, because the sight before her just destroyed all of her defences.
―I know you were button.‖ He paused watching her intently, ―Are you a little nervous about today?‖
I’m shaking, trembling, nervous about you, she thought as she got a whiff of his expensive cologne, and God do you smell good, ―A little.‖
He smiled reassuringly, ―Here,‖ he pushed a small paper bag toward her, ―I brought you a muffin.‖That caused her to laugh.
―I thought that was my job?‖ she said partially recovering enough to tease him.
―I told you that you were too good to do those things for me.‖ He said with an edge of seriousness.
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Did he say that?She was sure it wasn‘t put in that context.
―Now, I know you don‘t drink coffee, so I wasn‘t sure what you wanted to drink.‖
Vodka and tonic, ―Water‘s fine.‖How did he know she didn‘t like coffee?Well, Max didn‘t get where he was by not being observant.
―There‘s some in the cooler there.‖ He pointed to a partially concealed door next to her.
―Oh thank you.‖ She leaned over and opened it to retrieve a bottle.
Max near groaned, the woman‘s derriere in that tan skirt was flawless. Perfectly smooth and round and he had the experienced eye to know that it was firm and smooth as silk like the rest of her skin. Leave it to her to bend over in front of him and not think twice about it. How easy it would be to flip up skirt and…He quickly averted his gaze back to the laptop feeling the rising heat in his groin. Christ, Luke would kill him if he knew how he thought about Lily at that moment.Totally lost in the images flashing in his mind, he started to recite the alphabet in his head to distract him. Something he never had to do before in his life around a beautiful woman.Maybe that‘s why he could only think of the alphabet at that exact moment. This was going to prove to be the longest summer of his life.
Nancy was a woman in her mid fifties who seemed very warm yet professional. Max introduced them and Lily shook her hand.
―You‘re Mr. Shayne‘s sister.‖ She said smiling.
―Yes.‖Lily studied her expression to see if the favouritism bothered the older woman, but the smile she wore was genuine. It gave her some measure of relief.
―Nancy, set her
