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circumstances.”
    Lissa’s stomach jumped. So he did know.
    She glanced toward the bar as she uncrossed her arms. “There’s no reason
I’d rate special service. I’ve only been here once and that was months ago.”
    Damned if she was going to give him any leeway. She had zilch to
reproach herself for, and she’d bet it was nothing he hadn’t done anyway. There
was no way she would make excuses for herself. Certainly not to him.
    She wouldn’t be embarrassed either. She wouldn’t give him the
satisfaction.
    Business , she thought as she tugged at the edges of her
jacket. This is strictly business .
    “The best I can promise is that I’ll call Tom tonight. I can shoot him
over a copy of the folder and if he can get a quotation done for you by
tomorrow afternoon, he’ll likely bring it along by four.”
    He sat back in his chair and gave her a long, steady look. “Since you’re
not stupid, I take it you’re deliberately being obtuse. Most likely because you
realize I still want to take you to bed and, despite your determination to
pretend you don’t want that, I’m figuring you know that’s where we’ll end up.”
    Her skin heated as blood pumped in her veins. It seemed he wasn’t going
to get the message that she wasn’t some sort of offering unless she spelled it
out in florescent letters. “Since you’re laboring under a delusion, let me make
something clear right now.” She glanced toward the bar again, relieved to
notice that Marco was still nowhere to be seen. “I don’t know what passes for
inane conversation in the dubious world of male bonding, but let me assure you
that regardless of what you’ve heard or been told, I have no intention of
allowing you or anyone else to think they can talk to me in the manner you’ve
been doing since I clapped eyes on you. Nor have I any intention of crawling
into bed with you or any other man who thinks he’s onto a good thing.” When
she’d finished, her heart was thumping and her cheeks stung like fire.
    “That’s quite a speech.” Reed raised his eyebrows. “It may take me a
while to work through the fundamentals of it, but I think I get the gist.”
    “I can only be thankful for that.” She reached for her drink and
swallowed past a dry throat. “Hopefully now you’ll stop the smutty innuendos.”
    He clutched his chest as if wounded to the core. “My innuendoes are
rarely considered smutty.”
    Smug bastard .
    Damn and blast it to hell. If her job didn’t likely hang on getting this
stupid contract, she’d tell him where he could stick it. But her three month
trial was due to end shortly and she didn’t want to give Tom any more reason
not to keep her on. He’d been a little cool toward her since she’d screwed up
at Ethan’s wedding, so if she landed this contract it would mean some extra
special brownie points in her favor. But she wasn’t prepared to keep her job at
any price. Especially not one that required she open her legs.
    “I’m not going to sleep with you. If that means you take your business
elsewhere, then knock yourself out. You’re not going to coerce me into having
sex with you, even if you now think I’m easy game.”
    After a few moments during which he stared at her, he frowned. “Okay.
This time I don’t even have the gist.” Swiveling his chair closer, he moved in.
“Let me just say that you’re far from being the first beautiful woman I’ve done
business with, some of whom I’ve taken to bed, but no fucking way would I ever
make having sex with me a prerequisite for signing on the dotted line.”
    His eyes had darkened to indigo and Lissa unwittingly leaned back in her
chair away from him.
    “And why in hell would I think you’re easy game?” Reed went on. “Because
you had a thing with Marco? Shit. Half the women on the south coast have had a
thing with him. If the rest of us ruled out women on that basis, there’d be a
whole lot of frustrated bastards around.”
    Because she had a thing