Page 23 of The Shy Waitress and Her Boss

She didn't bother letting him finish, and she didn't even have to pretend being embarrassed, with her cheeks turning a deeper, hotter shade of red as she said pleadingly,"Baby."

Another chuckle, and then Slade murmured wickedly, "I was kidding, though."

What?

"I'd kiss you either way."

And then the line went dead, and for one long moment Kady could only gape at her phone.That...that...that...

"That was painfully awkward to hear."

Eric's surprisingly insightful words were a relief, and Kady found herself nodding vehemently. "I know, right? That was my—-"

"Kady?"

The rudeness in his tone had her blinking. "Yes?"

"Don't you think it's a little too childish to fake having a boyfriend?"

OH. MY. GOD.

She quickly started shaking her head. "I'm not—-"

"You were practically choking on the word when you said 'baby'," Eric derided.

"But that's because—-"

"There you are, sweetheart."

I'm Too Sexy

"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice." ~ Marquis de Sade

Eric could feel hisjaw slacken as a man who was too much of everything pulled his dazed-looking ex-girlfriend off her seat...just so he could take her place and have Kady sit on his lap instead. To top it all off, Right Sexy Fred'sI'm Too Sexyhad also started playing in the background, and Eric had a crazy urge to yell for management.Are you for real? Do you think I don't fucking remember you played You're So Vain when I walked in, and fuck it, now I know I was right, that song WAS about me!

Kady's body, already feverishly aware of Slade's masculine hardness - and oh my God, she could feel himeverywhere: against her back, under her ass, on her knee - burst into flames the moment his breath caressed her ear, and he murmured, "Your ex looks like he's about to have an aneurysm rupture."

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