Executive Jeff Wallace has lusted after Evan Hawthorne since the moment his new employee first stepped into his office for a job interview. Evan is almost ten years Jeff's junior, fresh out of grad school, and one of the best salesmen in the office. Jeff thinks he's hot as hell and as luck would have it, he knows Evan is just as interested.<br><br>The only problem? There's a sticky little paragraph in the employee handbook that keeps Jeff from doing anything more than fantasizing about his new employee. The clause that states, in plain English, that managers and their immediate employees cannot fraternize. They can't get together, not even outside the office, just because Jeff's the boss.<br><br>Jeff has pleaded with his own supervisor, Kirk Morris, to change the rules. Why shouldn't he? Kirk owns the damn company and spends most of his time bonking Jeff's secretary. But it's a no go ... until Jeff finds himself working late one evening with no one left in the office but Evan, who decides to take matters into his own hands regardless of what the employee manual might say.

Double Standard

But from the corner of my eye I see Evan pout prettily and my heart wrenches inmy chest all over again.To Charity,he huffs,“At least I was paying attention.”


“I was too.I heard every word.”Then,with a shrug,Charity admits,“I just wasn’t listening.”


So I spent the last hour talking for nothing.It’s nice to know how much I’m appreciated around here.“Someone wake up Amber.”


Kirk stands and tugs on the arm propping up Amber’s head.She jerks forward,instantly awake.“I’m up,”she says,blinking owlishly.“What’d I miss?”


A look at Evan tells me I could’ve been reciting the Iliadin its original Greek and he wouldn’t have cared.I doubt my presentation had him hanging on my every word,though.I think it was the sound of my voice and whatever daydreams he had conjured up to go along with it.The two of us in my office,perhaps,stretched out on the sofa I keep in there for the times I have to pullan all-nighter.


Looks like this might be one of those times.Damn Kirk.


Chapter 4