only volunteered because I heard Shannon was here.”
Oh, crap! Chad looked over at her just in time to see her lovely, rounded cheeks flash pink. “I think you’re embarrassing her,” he scolded, feeling extremely proud of how composed he sounded, given that Shannon blushing did strange things to his body.
She looked over at him and nodded, smiling shyly.
Chad always considered himself a decent, upstanding guy, but for some strange reason that he didn’t have time to ponder at that moment, Shannon’s sweetness and innocence—not to mention that smoking hot body—was causing his hormones to have a party that his brain had not been invited to. He felt beyond disgusted with himself and silently vowed to nip the inappropriate physical reaction in the bud immediately. He nodded back to the girl and smiled.
“Whoa, sorry,” Kyle said, holding up his hands. “But that is actually freaking adorable.”
“What is?” Shannon asked.
“The way you blush like that,” Kyle replied. “I didn’t think women did that anymore.”
“I usually don’t like being the center of attention,” she admitted sweetly.
“With the way you look, I don’t see how you could avoid it,” he pressed.
Oh, shit, she was blushing again.
“That’s enough,” Chad scolded, giving Kyle the sideways hairy-eyeball. “Shannon, should I ask Kyle to leave?” he added in a joking voice, silently praying that she wouldn’t say ‘yes’ .
“No, that’s okay,” she giggled, smiling over at Chad. “I’ll just ignore him.”
“Smart girl!” Chad responded. “Okay, if we’re all done with the small talk, I really do need the two of you to get down to business.”
“Gladly,” Kyle mumbled, smirking shrewdly.
“Enough, Kyle,” Chad scolded. He handed them both a small pile of papers to comb through.
They spent the next two hours studying each page. Kyle and Shannon stopped often to ask questions about different things that caught their eye which may have been important. They were coming up with nothing conducive.
The good news, though, was that Shannon started coming out of her shell. Apparently, there really was a personality under the beautiful body, and quite a smart and witty one. And for some reason, the more of herself that came forth, the more it seemed that Chad could keep his hormones under full control.
“I’ll be right back,” Shannon announced, jumping up as lunchtime approached. “Bathroom,” she mumbled to the two men that were looking at her questioningly. She hurried from the room and closed the door tight behind her.
Kyle’s forehead smacked down on the table. He raised his head and looked over at Chad with a pained expression. “She’s so fucking hot!” he blurted out. “Oh, man!”
Chad chuckled and rolled his eyes, the picture of maturity. “She’s a little young, don’t you think?” he replied, knowing that he was a complete hypocrite.
“She’s nineteen,” Kyle said indignantly, shaking his head. “I’m only twenty-five.”
“Yeah, but she seems much younger. She’s innocent, or something,” Chad argued.
“I know! All she needs is a pair of thick, dark-rimmed glasses and I’d be cuming in my pants,” Kyle admitted. “It’s the combination of hot face and body with the ‘I’m such a virgin ’ routine that makes her so fuckable.”
“Fuckable?” Chad repeated with a sour look on his face, shaking his head.
“Yeah, y’know, how like all guys wanna do the nerdy librarian?” Kyle added.
Chad raised his eyebrows and chuckled, trying his hardest to appear ‘boss-like’, meanwhile, he began to ponder if that was really the reason his body reacted to hers the way it did.
Didn’t really matter, though, whatever the reason. It was still highly inappropriate.
When Shannon returned, Chad announced that they should break for lunch. He threw menus from the local deli at both of them and told them to order whatever they wanted, his treat.
Something in the way Shannon ate