Page 27 of Fierce-Jax

Nope, that was just the sound of the elevator dropping down toward them.

“What happened?”

“I told her about my practice, that I needed a nurse that could also learn to do Botox injections and she all but jumped on me in excitement. Said she gets injections and wanted to know if that was part of the benefits package.”

He laughed. “Is it?”

“I can make it that way. I gave her my card and told her to think about it and apply if she was interested.”

“That’s great,” he said.

The doors opened, they stepped in, and he was just ready to ask about that drink when a hand stopped the doors from closing and two other people jumped on the elevator with them.

“Hey, Jax.”

As if it wasn’t bad enough there would be witnesses, it was one of his employees. One that had shown crush-like moves on him. “Morning, Nora.”

He didn’t know who the other person was and it didn’t matter.

His chance to ask Dillion out was long gone.

“You’re getting here early,” he said to Nora.

“I need to leave early and have a bunch of things to do. I’m going to help train Paisley when she starts so I want to get organized.”

“What a pretty name,” Dillion said. “Paisley.”

He’d told her about his interaction that day with his newest hire. That they’d met in the elevator first and he was recognized. Things he never shared with women he dated, he realized he was confessing to her when they ran into each other and had a few moments to chat.

“It is,” Nora said. “Paisley used to work on another floor, but she ran into Jax and he convinced her to apply with us. Better watch it, he might do it to you. He likes pretty women.”

His face paled at hearing that.

He knew Nora was just joking, but it made him look like a complete asshole.

“That’s not true,” he blurted.

“I think she was just complimenting me,” Dillion said. “Because I’d like to think someone was smart enough to not make a comment like that about their boss. Or in front of their face. That it could reflect poorly on him and start rumors that weren’t true.”

He looked into Dillion’s eyes and wanted to thank her, but the elevator stopped at her floor, and Dillion and the other woman got out.

He nodded to her over Nora’s head.

“I’m so sorry,” Nora said when the doors shut leaving the two of them in there.

Talk about killing a mojo he might have thought he had.

At least Dillion defended him.

He hoped she didn’t believe what Nora had foolishly and immaturely spoken of.

“You need to think before you speak,” he said. “I’m not sure what that comment was supposed to be. I’ve never once led anyone to think or believe what you just said.”

“It came out wrong,” Nora said quickly. Her face was red from Dillion’s chastising. “I meant she was pretty. Kind of your style. She’s classy and so are you. I mean, you’re kind of out of most people’s league.”

“Huh?” he asked.

“I think you intimidate a lot of women,” Nora said. “Maybe that is why you’re single.”

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