Dumbass.
Violet didn’t need to see the sinks to return them. She just needed the paperwork. She handled accounts all across the country. She couldn’t fly out to a job site to see an order slip-up every time one happened.
But she tremulously said, “T-that would be great,” as though I’d just asked her on a date.
Violet started blushing again, so I pushed my luck. “You want to go right now? It’s not too far out of town.”
“Oh… uh, well, I need to feed my cat, but… he can wait for dinner a little longer.”
“Perfect,” I rumbled, my eyes catching on hers as heat shot between us. “Let me grab the paperwork for the sinks so we can compare it to the box numbers.”
We both knew there was no purpose to this trip. I just wanted to be close to her.
Ask her out. Ask her out, dumbass.
I cleared my throat. “So these are the sinks.”
We were completely alone out here, far from town and on the edge of civilization.
The Bear Creek Lodge was on the wild side of the mountain, and it had enough bedrooms that we could fuck in a different one for the next few weeks straight if we wanted to.
AndIdid.
This poor woman was out her all alone with me, and it was taking all the restraint in the world not to pull her into my arms for a kiss that wouldn’t end until next month.
But she was a co-worker, and I was being ruled by my cock, not my brain.
Violet studied the vanities. “These are definitely the wrong ones.”
“Yup.”
And with that, my flimsy pretext for dragging her out here was over.
“Uh,” I grunted, “you want to take a tour? I can show you the work that the guys and I have been doing. There’s a sweet-ass pool going in this place.”
Violet’s eyes were shining brightly, and the flush on her cheeks was back. “I-I’d love that.”
I reached for the purchase order paperwork that I’d put down on one of the sinks at the same time she went to grab it.
Our hands brushed together, and a shockwave of heat shot through me.
Violet started giggling uncontrollably, the pink on her cheeks reddening. “Sorry about that.”
She was in her twenties, but sometimes she acted younger than that. Innocent somehow.
“No problem,” I rumbled as I picked up the paperwork and handed it back to her, making sure to brush her fingertips with mine as I passed it over.
She looked like she was about to come completely undone. And damn, if I was reading her wrong, my heart was going to be all busted up at the end of this. Because, I was starting to think some of her shyness might be because she liked me. Could that be possible?
Did this gorgeous woman feel the same way about me as I did about her?
I rested my hand on her lower back as I guided her further into the lodge. “Let me show you the dining hall first. It’s pretty fucking amazing.”
Chapter 7
Violet
The same Christmas goat wrapping paper was on my desk again.
