Page 13 of One Night Billionaire

“I want this in a presentation by the end of the week,” Brian told her.

She had the nerve to smile at him. “I already made one.”

Of course, she did. “Send it over,” he bit out.

She was better than he needed her to be. He didn’t want her to be this damn good at her job. He wanted to be able to push her away but even he couldn’t deny she was the right person for the job.

“Done,” Anna said.

“Thanks,” he muttered.

“I will take a look at it in a little bit. I need to run to my next meeting unless you need anything else from me?” Pete asked him.

Brian shook his head and Pete left.

“I’m not trying to be difficult,” Anna explained. “I wouldn’t go toe to toe with you about something if I didn’t genuinely believe it was the best course of action.”

“I would prefer if you didn’t push.” Brian gritted his teeth.

“I know that you would, but it’s also my name and reputation on the line and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize this project and have it reflect badly on me.”

He had to give her that much. When he’d checked her references, albeit after offering her the job, the main thing people told him was that she took a lot of pride in her work. That and she was easy to get along with. He had doubts about that one.

“Since you’re here, what’s the current status?” he asked.

“Green for the new deadline you set without the added work. We will be cutting it close, but the team has agreed to work weekends to meet the timeframes. I also found a few bugs that had been introduced to the code.”

“What?” she had his full attention now.

“I’m typing up a report on them. I was able to remove them, but I documented it all.” Anna began packing her things.

“Prioritize that,” he told her.

She nodded. “It’s what I plan to work on as soon as we are done here. I planned to send them over with the update today, but we moved that,” she reminded him.

“I’ll be waiting.

He watched her go and swore. She was getting to him and it pissed him off. He also wanted her again and that pissed him off even more. He didn’t want to sleep with her again, but his body disagreed.

Chapter seven

Annastaredathernew presentation on her computer and debated if it was the right thing to do. She never got nervous when it came to work but she needed Brian to be on her side when it came to her job.

He’d been short with her all week and gruff. Just overall grumpy. There was no other way to put it. If she could just get him to see past their night together, she would be good to go for a while at least.

Seeing him every day was still hard, but Pete had told her most projects wouldn’t require as much interaction with Brian. That she could handle, but right now, it was the constant communication that was killing her.

Brian was still just as sexy as ever, too. She knew she wasn’t the woman he remembered wearing Lucy’s little black dress. She wasn’t ugly, that much she knew, but she also wasn’t drop-dead gorgeous like the women he had to have been used to.

She’d yet to search for him on the internet, not wanting to know how far he’d fallen to sleep with her. There weren’t many single women at the lodge, something she’d remarked on with Lucy when they’d been there. Slim pickings would have led him to her.

Closing her laptop, she picked it up for her next meeting with Brian. Worse still, this was a solo meeting without Pete there as a buffer.

It was the last meeting of the day for both of them, so she ordered food for it and blocked off an entire hour of his. He’d accepted, but she knew it was begrudgingly. There was no other way with him when it came to her.

Dinner had arrived less than five minutes ago and she needed to pick it up before going to his office. If she didn’t leave immediately, she’d be late and that wouldn’t go well for her.

Doing just that, she left her office, grabbing her purse on the way out. She had no reason to come back tonight. It was late and if she weren’t trying hard to impress him, she would already be gone.

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