Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 33310 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33310 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
I turned scarlet before I could hide my face again.
“Oh do tell.” Sasha’s eyes went wide as she learned forward.
“Noting, it was fine,” I said quickly.
She held my gaze, like she was trying to peer inside my head.
“Stop it.”
She laughed. “What?”
“You’re doing that thing where you act like you’re reading minds.”
“Maybe I am.”
I rolled my eyes. “They were fine, just…”
“What?”
“Okay, I’m going to ask you something, but it is strictly hypothetical okay? Do not look into this, please. Nothing is happening, and I’m not saying anything by this, I’m just curious.”
Sasha laughed again. “Whoa, easy there. What is it?”
“The work thing, with you and Jord and Luke.” I frowned. “How does that work?”
“How do we all work together you mean?”
I nodded and her face went serious.
“You really want to know?”
I nodded.
Sasha took a deep sip from her soda water, her face serious as she held my eyes.
“Lots of office sex.”
I groaned as she snorted and laughed.
“I’m being serious!”
“So am I! I’m telling you, if they ever brought a black light into any of our private offices? Oooh, or the conference room?” Sasha fanned herself as I went bright red.
“Oh, and oral. Tons of oral.”
My face went an even deeper shade of red as I perked a brow at her. “On them or you—ugh, God, never mind.”
She laughed. “You really want to know?”
“Not my business.”
“Well, I’ll tell you anyways. Both. But those two love driving me crazy together with those mouths of theirs.”
“Oh my God, Sasha,” I hissed, mortified as I buried my face in my hands.
She laughed again. “You did ask.”
“Not really.”
“So does that answer your question though?”
“And then some.”
“So, first day was ‘just good’ but now you’re asking questions about office relationships with bosses?”
“I told you not to look into it like that,” I mumbled.
“Ari, honestly, it works because it isn’t just a work thing. They made sure of that when we first got together. It’d never have worked if I was just their underling who happened to be their girlfriend. We had to be equals, and find that equal footing.”
I nodded, looking away and drinking my wine.
“You’re not going to tell me what happened today are you?”
I shook my head, doing my best to hide my grin.
“Fine, be a brat like that. But that’s my advice, for the issue you aren’t having. Find equal ground.”
Chapter 9
I was at work promptly the next morning. Actually, I was there twenty minutes ahead of time, and when Hunter, Damien, and Sean walked in, I was already sitting there in my desk at the side of their office. The three of them definitely stopped mid-step and exchanged glances before turning my way.
“Before you say anything.” I stood abruptly, facing them. I’d practiced this in the mirror a hundred times the night before, but my voice still faltered and my heart still fluttered when I saw the three of them looking at me like that.
I cleared my throat and started again. “Before you say anything, yes, I know you told me to take the day off. And I don’t know what yesterday meant to all of you, and I hate to come off as that girl, but I’m not exactly schooled on— on…” I stammered, dropping my gaze for a moment.
“On sleeping with three men at once. So, if yesterday was just—”
“Yesterday meant more to us than you can possibly believe, Arianna,” Hunter said softly, taking a step forward. I glanced up into his sharp blue eyes, momentarily losing myself again as I found myself smiling.
Damn, how did he do that?
“Yesterday.” Damien shook his head, throwing his briefcase on a chair and moving towards my desk. “Yesterday wasn’t something we ever really do. And I mean ever. And yesterday was fucking incredible,” he murmured, stepping closer to me.
“Certainly not in this office, and certainly not with an employee,” Sean added, rubbing his chiseled jaw as he stepped forward as well.
“Well.” I blushed, looking away before back up to them. “That’s just it. I agree, yesterday was, um, mind-blowing.”
The men grinned as I bit my lip bashfully, the raw energy from the day before rushing through me.
“But, it’s the office thing and the employee thing that bothers me.”
“You’re fired.”
Hunter reached out and punched Damien hard in the arm as the blonde man laughed at his own joke.
“He’s fucking kidding,” he said quickly to me before turning to the other man. “Tell her you’re kidding, asshole.”
Damien grinned at me, shrugging. “I’m obviously kidding.”
“I think I understand what you mean,” Sean’s gruff voice cut through the other two. “It makes things…different with us being ‘in charge’ of you.”
“Yeah, that,” I said quietly, nodding.
“Well,” Hunter said, scratching his square chin thoughtfully. “So let’s take it outside the office. Let’s all go do something, show you this isn’t just three assholes taking advantage of the new secretary.”
I grinned, wagging a finger at him. “Hey, I did not say that.”