Page 20 of Arrogant Boss

I don’t know how I should feel about this. The entire time I thought it was either my mother or father who bought me them, because they were the only ones I told about wanting those boots.

“Thanks.” I rub his leg, and he places his hand over mine, so I remove my hand quickly. “You really spent over two grand on me? That’s insane.”

My father told me men who take the time to find out what a woman wants like you.

“You must have wanted me back then,” I blurt out.

He lifts my chin, and his touch sends butterflies flopping in my stomach. “I did, and I still do.”

I clear my throat, and lean back, trying to relax. “I love those, I still have them in my closet and wear them every winter.”

“I know.”

To lighten the mood, I grab the remote off the coffee table and tap the home page button so that the different apps pop up.

“Is there a show you would like to watch?” I ask.

“I don’t watch TV.”

“Not ever?”

He shakes his head. “I run multiple businesses, I don’t have time to watch TV.”

“What do you do in your spare time?”

“Read, sleep, and go to bars. Watching TV kills brain cells.”

“It doesn’t.” I choose the Netflix app and resume watchingTheHaunting of Bly Manor.“I read too, but not much. I like smutty romance.”

He rolls his eyes. “Typical. What woman doesn’t read romance?”

“If you trash talk my smut books, you can leave.” I set the remote back onto the table.

He cocks an eyebrow. “What exactly is smut?”

My cheeks flush. “Books with a lot of sex in it.”

“LikeFifty Shades of Grey?”

“You’ve seen it?”

“Yeah, I took a woman I was casually dating to the movies to see it. Those movies were a bore.”

“The books are way better.”

“The books are always better,” he shoots back.

“I have a very smutty book for you to read.” I stand up from the couch and grabDesperate Measuresby Katee Roberts from my industrial bookshelf tucked away in the corner next to the window. I go back to the couch and hand it to him. “Read this.”

He eyes the book cover and flips through it. “What’s it about?”

“It’s a retelling ofAladdin, except it’s a love story between Jafar and Jasmine.”

“Interesting.”

“The sex scenes are insane.”

“I’ll only read it if you agree to speak about the terms and conditions of us fucking casually.”

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