“Yes Sir.” She nodded her head. “Is there anything else you need from me before the meeting?”
“I need your cellphone number and personal email address.”
“My personal email address?” She frowned. “Why not my business email address?”
“Because everything I have to say can’t be viewed by HR.” I winked at her and watched as she left the room in a huff and a small smile. Just because it would be unprofessional to sleep with her didn’t mean I couldn’t still flirt. I’d try to not let it get out of hand, but she was going to make it very difficult for me to keep my hands to myself, if she kept giving me those ‘I want you to f**k me eyes’.
Chapter Four
Hannah
“Are you ready for our trip tomorrow?” Leo walked up next to my desk and nearly made me jump out of my seat.
“Don’t scare me like that.” I glared at him, looking so calm and relaxed. It was so unfair that he could look so cool, calm and collected while I was pretty sure I looked a frazzled mess every time he was around. I was annoyed at my body for betraying me every time he was near. I wasn’t sure how it was possible, but every time I saw him, he looked hotter and hotter.
“I didn’t mean to scare you.” He rubbed my shoulder briefly and my body nearly went into convulsions.
“Did you need anything in particular, Leo?” I’d quickly gotten into the habit of calling him Leo instead of Mr. Maxwell. I’d felt like a fool addressing him so formally in front of the other members of staff.
“I’d ask you for a coffee, but I know that’s not your strong point.”
“I can get you a coffee if you want.” I stood up and grabbed my bag, eager to be away from him. “What do you want?”
“I’d take a cafe latte with one sugar, if you’re going and you promise not to drink from it first.”
“I won’t drink from it.” I promised, still feeling embarrassed at how badly I’d behaved the first day I’d gotten him coffee. “Anything else?”
“Yeah, why don’t you dress up as a nurse this time?” He winked at me. “I’ve always had a thing for nurses.”
“Excuse me?”
“You know - last time you were a waitress, this time you can wear a nurse’s outfit. Keep things spicy.” He laughed as I glared at him and quickly left the office.
“I should put on a nurse’s outfit.” I muttered to myself as I walked into the elevator. “That would show him.” I pressed the ground floor button and grinned to myself as I thought about him. He’d be shocked if I showed up in the outfit. He thought he was making me uncomfortable by calling my bluff, but I’d show him. I’d show up in the sexiest nurse’s outfit I could find and have him so turned on, he wouldn’t even be able to work. Then I thought about all the other people in office. If they saw me in a nurse’s outfit, I’d be out on my ear. There was no way I’d get a promotion then.
I exited the elevator feeling peeved. Then it hit me. I’d take a nurse’s outfit with me to New York and show up in his room on the last night and tease him with it. I grinned again. He wouldn’t know what to do or say then. I’d have the upper hand. I’d show him that his silly little comments weren’t getting the better of me. I’d turn the tables on him. I pulled my phone out and quickly called Lisa.
“Hey, what’s up?” She asked me sounding surprisingly happy for a work day.
“Why are you answering the phone?” I asked suspiciously. “I thought you couldn’t take calls while you were on the floor?”
“Why are you calling me if you thought I couldn’t answer?”
“I was going to leave you a voicemail.” I said and then continued. “You are at work right.”
Silence filled the other side of the phone.
“Lisa?” I said her name accusingly.
“I took a sick day.” She responded finally. “It’s not a crime.”
“You don’t sound sick.”
“I’m not sick.” She giggled. “Only dumb people use sick days when they’re actually sick. I just needed the day off. My boss is riding my ass and I needed some free time.”
“Lisa!” I sighed. “You can’t just call in sick when you’re not sick. What happens when you really get sick and then you have no time off left to take?”
“Don’t know and don’t care.” She said in a blasé tone. “Anyways, what do you want? I’m watching Maury and I have a feeling this guy is not the baby daddy and shit is going to go down.”
“Really Lisa?” I sighed. “You took the day off to watch Maury?”
“No, not just to watch Maury. I’m going to do my nails and I’m meeting J-Lo for lunch.”
“What?” I shrieked. “How are you meeting J-Lo for lunch?”
“Oops, I meant J-Ho.” She giggled. “You remember Jennifer right, my friend that works at Macy’s and hooks me up with discounts.”
“Yeah.” I was starting to get annoyed. “Anyway, I need you to do me a favor.”
“What?”
“I need you to pick me up a sexy nurse’s outfit at Hot Topic.”
“Sexy nurse-what?” She shrieked. “Hold on a second.”
“Fine.” I walked into the coffee shop and ordered two lattes. I waited for Lisa to come back to the phone impatiently. “Lisa.” I whispered loudly into the phone, feeling annoyed to be kept waiting.
“Sorry, sorry.” She came back to the phone a minute later. “He wasn’t the daddy, but guess what?”
“Lisa, I do not have time—”
“His uncle was the daddy.” She shrieked. “But guess what? He was sleeping with the uncle’s wife, so the uncle’s child was really his. Can you believe that?”
“What are you talking about, Lisa?”
“So the main guy, I think his name was Jim, or maybe it was Bob, let’s just call him redneck number one.”
“That’s so offensive to rednecks.” I sighed.
“Are you a redneck? Do you care?”
“Lisa,” I started again. “I’m about to go back into the—”
“So redneck number one was dating trashy girl number one. Trashy girl number one had a baby, but redneck number one didn’t think it looked like him. So he went on Maury. Turns out trashy had an affair with redneck number two, who is redneck number one’s uncle. And redneck number two is married to trashy girl number two and she had an affair with redneck number one in the back of the trailer while trashy girl number one was sleeping.”