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“Huh?”
“I was supposed to meet my Aunt Gia for lunch. Then you walked into the café. I wanted you. So I lied about who I was and signed the contract and here I am. To sum up, I saw you and I liked you.”
I stare at him. “This doesn’t make sense.”
“Maybe not, but I’ve always been driven by my gut instinct, and it’s hardly ever led me wrong.”
“Hardly ever?”
“Only God is infallible, babe.” His eyes crinkle as he smiles.
“Why are you so attractive?”
“Another mystery of the universe.”
“Please don’t smile. I need to work this out because I don’t know if I believe you. You’ve quite literally lied about everything since I met you. Is your name even Calix Line?”
He keeps a hold of my hand while he reaches into his pocket and pulls out his wallet. “Here. Look through it.”
“You mean look at it.”
“No, through it. I don’t want to have secrets from you.”
I tug my hand free and peer at his license. Thirty, with a birthday three months ago coinciding with his inclusion in the most eligible bachelor list, hair is blond, brown eyes, six-foot-four-inches tall, two hundred pounds.
“Your eyes aren’t brown, and your hair isn’t blond.”
“I’ll change it then. What do you want it to say?” He brushes a hand over his thick hair, making a mess and somehow coming off sexier than a moment ago. My sex quivers. A Girl, you’re in danger sign goes off in my head.
I thumb through the rest of his wallet. He has five very crisp one thousand dollar bills. Where would he even use these? No one has change. “What if you wanted to buy a smoothie from the food truck?”
“I’ve got my phone and a credit card.” He points to the black card. Tucked behind it are two other cards. They all probably have unfathomable limits. In one of the side pockets is a small folded Post-it note. I show it to him.
“Passwords. I have to change mine every six weeks at work. No one pisses off IT.”
“True. I write mine in my desk planner.”
“Under, though, on the back side, right?” He eyes me with concern.
“Under…” I trail off. “Where no one can see it? Oh hell, no. God, I’m dumb.” I slap the side of my head. “It’s my work account. All I do on that computer is work stuff, so I never thought to protect my password like that. What did I care if someone logged into my computer? We share everything. Everything is a team project.”
Chapter Ten
CAL
She sounds so betrayed.
“Who am I taking out?”
“I wish.” She laughs humorlessly. “It’s my own stupidity that got me into this mess.”
“Tell me.” It’s not a request.
“Fine.” She slumps back against the striped cushions. “I developed a good marketing idea for an important client, but when we met about it, a coworker presented it as her own. I went to my manager afterward and said that I could show her from the timestamps on the documents that I’d created it, but she accused me of lying. The presentation that I created showed my coworker as the person who started the document complete with timestamps.”
“So she accessed your computer and changed the metadata on the document.”
“Must have.”
