Page 11 of Seducing a Sagittarius
I giggled. “I’m familiar with an iPad and pencil.”
“Good. We’ll sync my calendar a little later. Go handle that, then meet me back in here to go over the anniversary party. It’s a few weeks away, so we’ll be in and out of the office for that amount of time.”
“Noted.” His eyes roved over me once again as silence filled the space.
I cleared my throat and smiled, then turned to head out.
“You look nice today, by the way.”
“Thanks. See you in a bit,” I threw over my shoulder before I hurried out of his office.
Something was telling me that me being his assistant wasn’t going to last too much longer.
Layne was goingto make me lock in on her fine ass. I was never one to believe in that love at first sight bullshit, but this was definitely one of those moments of realization that I liked her . . . a lot. It had only been twenty-nine hours since I met her, and already, I was thinking about our future.
I could tell she was nervous and trying to create boundaries between us, by bringing up the policy I put in place when we finally got down to business. But this was my company, so it was my rules, my way. I knew I said I would never mix business with pleasure after the bullshit my cousin put us through, but clearly, Ms. Grant was doing shit to me to make me want to end that stupid ass policy.
By the time the anniversary party arose, I knew Layne would be mine.
The shit she said about those zodiac signs was really interesting. I wasn’t into that type of shit. I just believed some people acted the same, some didn’t. She broke it down to where I felt like she knew exactly who I was.
Maybe because she was the same sign as me, so she was familiar with my energy.
As I waited for her to return to my office to go over the rest of the plans for the anniversary party, I called Emani to run an idea by her.
“House of beauty, number one cutie, how can I assist you?”
I shook my head.This girl.
“You really need to stop answering the phone like that. It’s played out, sis.”
“Boy, what the fuck you want?” she asked, imitating Big Worm fromFriday. That pulled a laugh from me.
“Are you busy?”
“Not at the present moment. I’m about to go do some sniff tests in the lab in about ten minutes, so I have that amount of time for you.”
“I got a question.”
“Shoot.”
“You think I’ll be doing too much if I got Layne a car?” The line was so silent for a good twenty seconds that I had to pull the phone away from my ear to make sure she was still there. “E?”
“I heard you. I’m just trying to register your words. They sounded like gibberish. Say that again for me.” I could hear the humor in her voice.
“E, stop playing. I’m being serious.”
“I know you are, which is quite waggish to me. The girl has only been working for you for thirty-six hours, and already you’re talking about buying her a car?”
“It’s not what you think . . .” I started, but Emani knew me too well. She knew why I was asking.
“The lies. It’s exactly what I think, so don’t try to cover it up by lying to yourself. Although, I can see why you’re so smitten. She is a baddie.”
“Aye, I’ma need you to chill on this one. You already fucked around with the last assistant I had, which is why I’m in this predicament now. You didn’t follow the no dating employees rule.”
Emani chuckled, but I didn’t find shit funny. “Avery, please. You in this predicament because of your tender dick ass cousin. That shit doesn’t apply to me. I didn’t even touch that heffa. She was bat shit crazy. That’s why you fired her.”
“Whatever. You didn’t answer my question.”
