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“I wouldn’t call it work, boss,” the other guy says as he locks eyes with me.

He winks at me and disgust fills me when I realize what work he had in mind for me.

“GO!” Heath roars and I jump, scurrying out from behind him and heading down the stairs.

“Not you,” he says, reaching out and catching the collar of my coat to stop me. He takes my elbow, steering me over to a nice black truck parked on the side of the office.

“Where are we going?” I ask, trying to keep up with his long strides.

“Home. I have some work you can do for me,” he says as he opens the passenger door and lifts me inside.

My mouth drops open but strangely I don’t feel the same disgust that I did when the other man had talked about sleeping with me.

THREE

Heath

“What will I be doing?”She asks suspiciously as I crank the engine and we take off down the road toward my cabin.

An image of me pinning her beneath me and rutting into her slick pussy springs to my mind but I shake it away. There’s no way she would be into that and I’m not the kind of guy to force himself on a girl.

“I need a housekeeper and someone who can cook me a few meals,” I lie.

My place isn’t that big and I’m perfectly capable of keeping up with it by myself but I can’t have this little girl running off with another man, one who might hurt her.

“And you want me to do that?”

“Yep,” I growl, my hands tightening around the steering wheel as she turns to face me.

“Really?”

“Yeah,” I say, wondering why she seems hesitant to accept a job offer all of a sudden.Maybe she doesn’t want to be alone with me?

“It’s just that you didn’t seem that excited to hire me just a minute ago.”

“I’m not going to let you wander off with some strange guy,” I grit out.

“Right,” she says, drawing the word out and giving me a dry look and I realize that she technically did just wander off with a strange guy. Me.

The steering wheel creaks in my hands as I think about her going off with one of the guys who were checking her out at work. Luckily for my truck, we pull up out front of my cabin a minute later and I leap out, circling the hood and opening the door for Emma.

“I’ll show you around really quick before I have to head back to work.”

I lead her up the front steps and unlock the front door. The cabin itself is only two bedrooms and one bathroom with an open layout kitchen and living room. I give her a quick tour, showing her the kitchen, living room, and the guest room. I point out the bathroom and my bedroom, watching her face the entire time to see what she thinks about my home.

I built the place myself and it’s all made out of wood and stone. The place is kind of small and plain but it suits me just fine. The log cabin is set back off from the road in the middle of the forest and a small stream runs along the back. My furniture and appliances are probably a little dated, but it all works just fine and since it’s just me out here I’ve never minded. I wonder if Emma does though. I want her to like it here.

I should probably stay and make sure she gets settled in okay but seeing her so close to a bed already has me feeling on edge. I reach up, tugging on the long hair of my beard as I start to back out of the room and down the hall. She turns and smiles at me and my heart races in my chest. I need to get out of here before I do something to embarrass myself, like ask her to marry me.

“I’ll leave you to it. I’ll be home at 5:30,” I say as I grab my truck keys and head out the front door. I pause as the door closes after me and turn, locking the front door after me before I can think over my actions.

FOUR

Emma

I stareat the front door after Heath leaves, frowning. I can’t figure the man out. One minutes he’s ushering me out the door and the next he’s throwing me in the truck and telling me he has a job for me.

Men.

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