Authors: Kristen Proby

WMIS 08 Forever With Me (36 page)

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“I’m staying
here
?”

“That you are,” he confirms, his accent sliding along my skin like honey. “You’ll consider this your home while you’re with us. Here are your keys.” He passes the keys to me, then turns his back and leads me to the kitchen, which boasts brand new appliances, dark oak cabinets and matching granite countertops. “The bedroom is through there,” he continues and leads me into a beautiful room with a four-poster bed. “The linens are clean and fresh. The bathroom is there.” He points to this left, but my eyes are stuck on the doors that lead out to the balcony, which offers a beautiful view of the street below and Jackson Square just a block away.

“There are times that it gets noisy with music and people, but there’s never a dull moment in the French Quarter.”

I nod and turn back to him. “Thank you. Shall we go back to the office?”

“It’s mid-afternoon, Kate. Take the rest of the day to settle in.”

“Oh, but, I’m here to work. Surely, I could—”

“It would look odd to bring on a new hire in the middle of the day, don’t you think?”

Of course it would.

I smile sheepishly and nod. “You’re right. I’ll work from here.” I toss my jacket onto the bed, pull my laptop out of my briefcase and walk briskly into the kitchen. “It’s going to be a process.”

“Kate, I don’t want—”

“I’m not going to be able to just dig in and start investigating. Van’s right to give me an assistant position, but that’s going to be even tougher.” I tie my hair back off my face and lower into a kitchen chair as I talk briskly. If I talk about work, I won’t be ogling him and thus losing more brain cells.

“Kate.”

“I’m going to have to play by the rules for a while, a couple weeks at least. I need people to trust me, so they’ll open up to me.”

“Kate.”

“I—”

“Enough!”

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