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here. Don’t play stupid with me, Byron.”
    “Stupid?”
    “Yep. You got it in one. In our last conversation, you told me that you despised the woman, and that you thought she’d screwed up my life,” Blake said, hands on his hips as he glared at Byron.
    It was only Wednesday, and McKenzie had been working there for three days now. Byron’s luck at not being found out by his brothers was bound to have ended sooner or later, but he’d have been far happier if it had been a lot later.
    “She opened up an accounting company,” Byron told him. “We were in need of a head accountant.”
    He’d said that calmly. If only it were really that simple. Since she’d stepped into his office on Monday and the two of them had discussed his expectations of her, all he could imagine was stripping her down and throwing her across his desk. It was nothing too personal, he assured himself. It was only because he wanted to take ownership of her, mess with her in the same way she’d messed with his older brother. She would learn that a person didn’t get away with messing with any of the Knight brothers without suffering the consequences. Infatuation, or whatever the romance writers of the world wanted to call it, had nothing to do with it.
    Then again, the woman was good at screwing with people’s lives. Maybe she had somehow cast some sort of spell over him. She was a…witch. That would make a lot more sense than all of these fantasies springing up of their own accord in his brain and points south.
    Were the fates with him or against him? It was hard to tell. Before Blake could say, “That’s utter BS,” McKenzie stepped through the doorway, looking down at the papers in her hands, not noticing that Byron was in a deadlock with his brother.
    The outfit she was wearing was appropriate to the office — she always played it that way — but he seemed to be finding something wrong with everything she was doing. His eyes were drawn to the top two buttons of her modest blouse. They were undone, and though not even a hint of her cleavage was showing, Byron was captivated, tantalized. He was hot to undo the next couple of buttons to see what she was hiding.
    Subtle pink lipstick filled out her lips, making them appear more than kissable, and his pulse sped up as she moved closer. And her scent… He couldn’t figure out what it was doing to him, but his hormones were running amok.
    She looked up, and then a genuine smile appeared on those lush lips. “Hi, Blake. I’ve been hoping to see you, but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance yet to seek you out.”
    She walked up and gave Blake a very unprofessional hug, in Byron’s humble opinion. It had Byron grinding his teeth. Yes, he knew she wasn’t after his older brother, but it still got to him. Still, how did he know that for sure? His head was spinning because he really didn’t know this woman at all when it came down to it.
    “Did you figure out the problem?” Byron snapped, making both Blake and McKenzie turn his way.
    McKenzie’s eyes narrowed at his tone, and Blake looked as if he wanted to punch him.
    “Unfortunately, I think the problem runs deeper than a numbers issue. You have someone at the Boise office who is…shall we say, skimming a bit off the top. I’ve been over this and over this, and there’s no other explanation. If I were you, I would have an internal audit done. It’s going to take quite some time to figure out exactly who, but from what I’ve been seeing, I’ve narrowed it down to three possible people. If you know your employees well, then you might be able to narrow it down further.” Her tone was professional in the extreme, and it was putting Byron on edge.
    That made no sense. He wanted a professional, didn’t he? So why was it that no matter what she did, he still found himself irritated? Why did he still find himself wanting to punish her? Hell, he didn’t even know which direction was up anymore.
    “I’ll look this over