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heavy. We shortened
one another’s names, as if we could be Sash and Bri for the night and thus shed
any thoughts of our professional relationship. The sexual attraction over the
prior four years had been building up to that moment. We’d gone back to the
hotel in the cab with his hand inching up my thigh and had arrived impatient to
get naked. He’d promised to meet me in my room in ten minutes and I remembered
my eagerness to have him in my bed. And then the worst thing possible had
happened. And I’d texted him that we couldn’t.
    My phone rang,
interrupting my trip down memory lane. After looking at the caller ID, I tried
not to appear anxious and let Brian’s number ring twice. “Hello.”
    “Hey, do you
mind telling me what the hell that was about?” his voice came through.
    “Excuse me?” I
could hear the sounds of the street on his end and had a sick feeling that he could
be leaving Jamie’s place now.
    “The fact that
you called me Bri for the first damn time since Miami.”
    My stomach
clenched and I fought my irritation. “It wasn’t intentional, and if we are
seriously fighting about names, how about the fact that I had to find out from
your girlfriend that you and Josh, my boss and the owner of the company, have a
nickname for me behind my back?”
    He sighed
audibly into the phone. “That was not how it was meant. It was only ever a
compliment and it wasn’t done intentionally.”
    “You’re telling
me that she meant it as a compliment and let it slip unintentionally tonight?”
Unbelievable.
    “No, not Jamie.”
    The sound of her
name on his lips made me cringe.
    “I meant that
Josh and I didn’t purposely call you that in front of her. It slipped and was
in reference to the Allied Airlines pitch four years ago where you were grilled
by that jerk. Remember? We said that with one arch of your brow you had him
regretting his tone. And for the record, she’s not my girlfriend.”
    I tried not to
analyze the relief that hit me with his last sentence. “So where are you that
you’re calling me right now?” I hoped my tone was non-accusatory.
    “Getting into a
cab.”
    “And leaving
Jamie’s place?” The words fell out of my mouth before I could stop them.
    “Would it bother
you, if I was?”
    The wine was a
hell of a truth serum. “I know I may regret saying this later, but yes.”
    He muttered a
curse. “We’ve been down this road. You turned me down. Remember Miami?”
    He was right, we
had been. “I know. Look, I’ve practically inhaled an entire bottle of wine
tonight which has me all out of sorts and I’m traveling home tomorrow for the
holidays which always makes me feel weird. I’m sure by the morning I’ll be back
to my senses, and we can return to normal.” The thought made me sad, but I was
starting to overthink the situation and become anxious. Normal. I needed the
normal routine without thinking about him with another woman.
    Silence greeted
that statement.
    “Brian, are you there?”
    “Call down and
tell your doorman that I’m coming up. I’ll be there in five minutes.”

CHAPTER
THREE
    I hung up the
phone stunned. Brian hadn’t left much room to argue. He was coming over. The
thought of this being a potentially bad idea, given our working relationship,
was replaced with overwhelming relief that he was on his way to see me instead
of spending the night with Jamie. I quickly called down to the doorman.
    Less than five
minutes later, he was knocking on my door.
    I opened it
feeling my heart rate spike with the sight of him. “Hi,” I breathed.
    “Hi, yourself.
Can I come in?”
    “Oh, yeah.
Sorry.” I moved out of the way, not realizing I’d been standing there like a
deer in the headlights.
    His eyes roamed
over me from head to toe.
    I was suddenly self-conscious
in my cashmere tank set. “I didn’t have a lot of time to change.” I turned
around and quickly fetched a silk robe from my room.
    After I walked
back out, tightening the belt, his head