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“I like that plan. It would allow us to start our city
trips earlier than anticipated. Now is the best time, since it’s
spring, with summer approaching. If our meetings this week are only
going to be in the mornings, we can work on presentations in the
afternoons, and all day Friday. Our schedules should be blocked off
for the whole day tomorrow and Thursday anyway. We could leave them
blocked. I’m not sure what your Friday looks like.”
    “I can have it cleared,” he said as he stood
up. “I’m going to have Agnes change our schedules. I’ll be
back.”
    “Will Carter be joining us?” Faith asked.
    “No. Carter will be busy working through the
promotional aspect. He’ll fill us in at the meetings.” He continued
out the door. Gavin’s plan was three-fold. First, he wanted to
finish the city reviews early, and this would allow them to do so.
Second, he would be able to spend more time with Faith, and third,
he could keep Carter away from her. Carter should have known better
than to cross him. Gavin made it clear that he wanted Faith and
that meant no one else was going to stand in his way.
    When Gavin returned, Faith asked him, “Do you
want to start on this tonight?”
    “Don’t you need to get home? You weren’t
supposed to be working late this week?”
    “I know, but you’ve got me all excited. I’d
probably end up working anyway.”
    Gavin thought, ‘You’ve always got me excited.’ He said, “No, we’d better not. There’s enough time
to get things done during the day. You keep your evening
schedule.”
    “Alright then, since we’re not meeting this
afternoon, I’ll start working right now on the list of cities for
next week.”
    “That’s a good idea. I’ll get going on the
potential clients for this weeks’ list. Oh, I’ve been meaning to
ask you. How was your lunch with Carter?”
    Faith looked up. “Talk about flipping a
switch.” He smiled, glad she remembered his comment from their
lunch at Hard Rock. “It was okay. Jealous?”
    “As a matter of fact, I was,” Gavin said. A
strong trait he possessed was his honesty, even if he appeared
arrogant. “Did he show interest in you?”
    “Seriously?” She looked at him with
bewilderment on her face.
    Gavin didn’t move, obviously wanting an
answer.
    She rolled her eyes and kept typing on her
laptop while speaking. “He seemed to. He offered to take me to a
football or basketball game when the season starts.” She then
looked directly at him and asked, “Why were you jealous? It’s not
like you and I are dating or anything. I mean, that would be pretty
serious for you. The whole dating thing. You just have sex, right?”
She was getting agitated.
    “My intentions for you are more than you
might think. I don’t need any interference from anyone.”
    “Ooh. Sounds mysterious,” she said
sarcastically. “Wouldn’t this work better if I actually wanted to
play an active part in your so-called intentions?”
    “Like I’ve said before, I want you. We can
play this game as long as you want to. I will have you in the end,”
he said without flinching. As usual, her uneasiness and sarcasm was
arousing to him.
    Faith just shook her head. “You are
absolutely amazing. Just fifteen minutes ago, we were talking about
the expansion project, and now this. Why would you think you’ll
have me? How have I given you that impression?”
    “You haven’t – yet. You will. I’m not an easy
person to resist for long. Everyone can be persuaded.”
    “People who want to be persuaded, are
persuaded, Gavin,” she said, looking back at her computer, her
frustration growing. They had had such a good day.
    “So you’re saying that everyone I’ve been
with wanted to be persuaded?” He continued to look at her dead on.
He never took his eyes off of her, and could tell she was annoyed.
That’s just the reaction he was going for.
    “Yes. Do you think those women out there
don’t drool over you? You’re a damn good looking man! Plus