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“Don’t you get it? I don’t want you.”
    “And you want him?” Milo sneered, talking about Limes.
    “Maybe,” she said, knowing she should just say Limes was her bodyguard. “Maybe I need a real man, Milo. Not some creep who pressures his employees.”
    Milo’s eyes flashed with anger, and he stepped forward, hand raised. She flinched back, raising her hand in defense, just as the door opened behind her.
    She looked back to see Limes standing there, outwardly calm but eyes blazing with anger.
    He took a step into the office, hands in his pockets. “That’s enough of that,” he said, taking Jamie’s hand in his and pulling her behind him. “We’re going home.”
    Milo’s eyes widened at the word home. “You’re living together?”
    “He’s my bodyguard,” she said.
    “I’m more than that,” Limes said. “I’m your fucking nightmare, and if you touch her again, say anything disgusting to her again, I’ll end you.”
    “I can make her lose her job,” Milo said smugly. “Then she couldn’t afford to hire you.”
    “Oh, she could afford me,” Limes said darkly, staying between her and Milo. “I would take on assholes like you for free .” He stepped forward, cracking his knuckles. “Now here’s how this is going to go,” he said as Milo paled and cringed away, much like the position she’d been in a moment ago.
    She was so relieved Limes was there. How he’d known to come in, she didn’t know.
    “I had a bug in Jamie’s purse,” Limes said, switching his hands to crack the knuckles on the other. He jerked his head both ways, and his neck let out a series of angry pops. “So I have evidence you were trying to extort sexual favors from one of your employees. And trust me when I say I know exactly how to disseminate that information in the way that would be most damaging to your company.” Limes grinned. “Hard to play Daddy’s boy when Daddy’s company loses its investors, right?”
    “Right,” Milo said tightly, looking something close to scared for the first time Jamie had seen.
    “So I’m going to send Jamie outside, and you’re going to take the bare minimum of what I think you deserve and you’re not going to say anything about it to anyone.”
    Milo was white now and trembling. As satisfying as seeing him laid out by Limes would be, Jamie didn’t want him to do anything violent or illegal.
    “Limes,” she said, pulling at his sleeve. “Don’t. Let’s just go. He gets it.”
    Limes let out a growl, and she realized how truly angry he was. She needed to get him out of here. If she left him here with Milo, he’d probably try to kill him.
    She jerked on his sleeve. “Limes, come on. I need you.” She tried appealing to his pity as a last-ditch effort, knowing she couldn’t possibly make him come with her through physical force.
    He turned on her, studying her with those burning, narrowed eyes, and then sucked in a deep breath and turned away from Milo.
    Who spit at his back.
    Limes’s next move was almost too fast to see. Much faster than Jamie would have guessed someone his size could move. In seconds, Milo was on the ground, groaning, and Limes was shaking his hand, as if he’d touched something disgusting.
    Limes had punched Milo straight in the face, and Jamie guessed he wasn’t going to get up anytime soon.
    “Keep your filthy hands off her,” Limes snarled at the fallen man, grabbing Jamie by the arm and ushering her outside.
    “Wait,” she said, but he shut the door behind them and started striding down the hallway, past all the cubicles and toward the front door. “Limes…” She wanted him to calm down, wanted to talk to him.
    She could barely keep track of her purse as they rushed for the exit.
    “Limes, wait!” she yelled, finally stopping him in his tracks.
    She grabbed his arm and pulled him into the nearby ladies’ room. It was a single room that was larger than usual for families or women nursing, and it had a lock, which she used, even