This is going to be a problem.
How on Earth did I agree to this? I could blame Andy, my ex the administrative director for being an asshole, or Vicky, for being a job-stealing skank. Or hell, I could blame my sisters for encouraging this whole thing, or Logan for not recognizing me that night. But really I should just blame myself for saying yes.
…To the job, and to him, that night.
Finally, it seems like we’re done, and Bryce and Hudson excuse themselves, though Peyton sticks around.
“So, are we clear, Doctor Archer?”
I frown, realizing I have zero idea what little miss blondie is asking me.
“Hmm?”
She sighs dramatically. “Are we clear, about the schedule for the next few days and the D.C. meeting?”
“Oh, uh, yes?”
She rolls her eyes at me before shooting Logan a look as she snatches her papers off the conference table and marches out the door.
Logan clears his throat as she walks out, and I swivel back in my chair to look at him. “Well, she’s fun.”
“Oh, yeah,” he chuckles, standing from the conference table and walking into his adjoining, office. “She’s a real firecracker.”
I can’t stop the frown that storms across me face as I follow him in, and when he turns and sees it, he grins. “Oh now what are you, jealous, Doc?”
“Of missy teeny-bopper back there? Hardly.” I roll my eyes as I brush past him into his office. “What is that, some sort of high school internship, Logan?”
He smirks at me. “Hey, you know you two may have more in common than you think,” he says with a wink.
I balk and wrinkle my nose. “Eww, gross?”
Logan’s grin cracks into a full laugh. “No, I mean you’re both driven, and you both want for this project to work.” He winks at me again. “And hey, Peyton wasn’t the one staring at me through that whole meeting.”
“Oh, fuck off, please.”
“Well hey, we’re alone now.” He shrugs and arches a brow at his large wooden desk. “I mean we’ve got the room to ourselves, and this great view-”
“Dream on, Logan.”
He shrugs. “Hey we could always just keep things to your place or mine like last-”
“Oh and enlighten me why the hell you’re living in my fucking building? Aren’t you a billionaire for Christ’s sake?”
OK, I’ve got a great loft apartment in a great building in a fantastic location. But Logan’s in the sort of income bracket that keeps a whole other level of residences.
I narrow my eyes at him, suddenly suspicious of why the hell he’s “slumming it” in an East Village loft with practically zero furniture.
“Oh calm down, Archer,” he growls, rolling his eyes. “I already told you, the penthouse is under construction, so I just decided to crash there.”
I narrow my eyes at him. “You, a billionaire, just ‘crashing’ at a place with a single piece of furniture and a punching bag?”
Logan grins. “So, you remember my single piece of furniture, huh?” He winks, and I know he’s talking about the bed.
The bed from that night.
“You can come by and see it whenever you want, you know.”
I huff my breath out in disgust. “You’re delusional if you think that would ever happen again.”
“Oh please, keep pretending you haven’t thought about it, cute stuff.” He taps the desk with his knuckle and then looks up at me in this over-the-top suggestive way that brings a flush to my cheeks. “I mean no one would have to know, darlin. Might make working together go a little easier.”
I roll my eyes, trying to subdue the grin threatening to spread across my face. “Oh, very romantic, Logan.”
“Who said anything about romance?”
I can feel my face getting hotter by the second as I start to lose my hold on my thoughts and as they begin to drift to all the dirty fantasies I’ve been having about him.
Suddenly the room itself begins to feel warmer and smaller the longer I spend in it alone with him
“I need to go,” I say, shaking my head and starting towards the door.
“Hang on.” He reaches out and grabs my arm.
I try and ignore the feeling of heat and buzzing electric current on my arm where he’s touching me as he steers me back around.
“Are you going to be like this every time we meet, because if so, I’m done.” I mutter, crossing my arms over my chest.
He grins. “You wouldn’t, not with what it would mean for your research group funding.”
“Try me.”
His grin falters for just a second. “Fine. No, Doc, I won’t be.”
“Good.” I can feel my own smirk on my face, feeling this momentary feeling of triumph.