Every Part of You: Takes Me (#5) Read Online Free PDF Page A

companies in Philadelphia. More than that if she wanted to take the plunge and move to New York. It would make her mother and Tree happy if she lived closer and could visit more often. Aidan would have a fit, but maybe it was time she broke away from him even more than she already had. Put some distance between them to give him and Corrina a real chance to make things work without any complications from her.
    Get away from everything that reminded her of Elliott.
    “Fuck,” she muttered.
    “Every chance I get,” Jimmy said from her doorway.
    Simone spun in her chair to face him. “Ugh. What are you still doing here?”
    “Same thing you are.” Jimmy held up a pile of folders. “Making copies. Putting out fires.”
    She grinned. “How’s the new position working for you?”
    “Let’s just say that every day’s an adventure.” Jimmy grinned, too, leaning in her doorway. He jerked his chin toward the windows. “How’s your favorite office exhibitionist?”
    “He’s not an exhibitionist,” she said, trying to keep her voice light. “He’s just too dumb to pull the blinds.”
    Jimmy came into her office and set his pile of folders on the edge of her desk to look out the window. He glanced at her over his shoulder. “You moved your desk.”
    “Yes.” Simone made a show of clicking her mouse and doing something that looked busy at her computer, but Jimmy wasn’t fooled.
    He laughed softly, then whistled, low, under his breath. “You and him?”
    “It wasn’t a secret.”
    “It wasn’t like you put out a memo about it, either.” Jimmy crossed his arms, looking down into Elliott’s office.
    “I didn’t know I had to!” Annoyed, Simone rattled her keyboard and slammed a drawer, pinching her finger. With a shout, she stuck it in her mouth and gave Jimmy a scowl.
    Jimmy held up his hands. “Sorry. Of course you didn’t.” He paused and looked out the window again. Then back at her. “Didn’t end well, huh?”
    “You,” Simone said with a stab of her finger at him, “are too nosy.”
    “So, what happened?”
    “Nosy,” she repeated and with a sigh, admitted defeat and logged out of her computer files. No more work tonight. She couldn’t concentrate on it, and didn’t want to be here, anyway. She eyed him, looking him over. The shined shoes. The new haircut. The shirt that matched the trousers. Simone’s brows lifted. “Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Who’s the lucky lady?”
    To her surprise, he blushed. Crimson. No hiding it. His answer to her came out on a stutter of wordless syllables.
    Simone sat straight up in her chair. “No. Fucking. Way. Not the Ice Queen. No!”
    “Don’t tell anyone!” Jimmy said hastily, crossing to her door and shutting it tight. “Shit, Simone. How’d you know? Nobody knows. Nobody can ever know.”
    “No kidding.” Simone propped her feet on the desk and shook her head. “Jimmy, honey, that’s going to lead to trouble.”
    Jimmy frowned and went back to the window to sit on the sill, his arms crossed. “Listen to you.”
    “Technically, we don’t work together. Just in the same building. And,” she added, “it still sucks. But Tasha’s your boss, man. Both of you could be fired. Or she could just make your life a living hell here and at home.”
    Jimmy’s grin told her a lot. A whole lot more than she’d ever suspected, actually, and Simone considered herself pretty astute when it came to sniffing out the kink in other people’s closets. She sat back in her chair with a stunned shake of her head. Jimmy laughed out loud at her expression. Then he shrugged, blushing again.
    “Wow,” Simone said.
    Jimmy ran a hand through his hair, then straightened his shoulders. “It’s not why I got the job. I got the job first. The other thing came after.”
    “Because she saw you could go after something,” Simone said.
    Jimmy looked embarrassed, but also pleased. “She said she’d never seen anyone work so hard to make her happy, ever, and she had to find