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I’m doing it most of the time.”
    And with that, he left.

Chapter Seven
     
    Olivia felt like crap.  It had been a week since she’d asked Daniel to leave her home and she ached all over with the loss.  It wasn’t just the sex, she missed him.  She was sitting in her office when she heard a knock at the door.  Assuming it was Tina, she let out a weary “Come in” and was surprised at who walked through the door.
    It was David.
    “David, what are you doing here?” she asked, forcing the cheery tone that she completely didn’t feel.  She stood and walked around her desk to give him a hug.
    “I came to see how my favorite girl is doing,” he said simply and sat down in the chair she motioned him to.
    “Oh, really?”
    “Well, actually that’s only part of the reason I’m here,” he began cautiously.
    “Uh-oh,” she said.  “That doesn’t sound good.”
    “Anna quit.”
    “What?  Why?”
    David sighed and slouched down further into his chair.  “Because I’m a prick, that’s why.”
    Olivia looked at him as if he’d lost his mind.  “I don’t understand.  I thought she was doing great.  Daniel said…”
    “When did you talk to Daniel?” he asked, confusion written all over his face.  “You and Daniel barely spoke while you worked for us.”
    “Oh, um…I ran into him at one of our events and I asked how Anna was doing.  So what happened?  What went wrong?”
    David squirmed in his chair a bit, refusing to meet Olivia’s gaze.  “Well, we sort of…you know…hooked up.”
    “Hooked up?” she asked stupidly and then could have cursed herself for her naïveté.
    “Remember when I told you that I had company at the retreat?”  Olivia nodded.  “Well, it was Anna.”
    Now Olivia was mad.  “At the freaking retreat?” she cried out.  “She had barely been with the company for two weeks and you slept with her?  What is the matter with you?  You’ve never done something so stupid before!”
    He looked up and gave Olivia a sad smile.  “Then I’m really good at hiding it.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Liv, honestly, you never knew about the others?”
    She paled.  “What others?”
    David scrubbed a hand over his face, clearly uncomfortable with the conversation.  “This isn’t the first time; it’s just the first time that it happened with my own assistant.”
    “I’m still not following you, David.”
    He stood up angrily and kicked his chair aside.  “I’ve slept with other women who’ve worked for us.  All of Daniel’s assistants in the last year?  I slept with them all!” he shouted.
    Olivia was stunned.  Where the hell had she been that she missed all of this?  “So Daniel wasn’t the reason those women quit?”  David shook his head.  “For crying out loud, David, how have you avoided getting slapped with sexual harassment suits?”
    “It was always consensual, Liv, and it was always off the clock.  I just have no desire to do the long term thing.”
    “Must run in the family,” she mumbled.
    “What?” he asked, pulling his chair back to sit down.
    “I said it must run in the family.  You and Daniel make quite the pair.”
    David gave a mirthless laugh.  “Are you kidding me?  We’re as opposite as night and day.  The thing is that most people don’t see us for who we really are.  I know how to schmooze; I know how to put on the good ol’ boy charm.  Daniel comes off as a hardass but it’s just a defense mechanism.”
    “For what?”
    “Usually because he’s pissed at me and the things that I do.”
    Olivia’s head was spinning.  For three years she’d worked for this man and looking at him right now he was a stranger.  “You certainly had me fooled,” she said disgustedly.
    “Oh, don’t be like that.  We worked well together and I respected you; that’s why I never hit on you.”
    It took every ounce of strength that she had to keep from reaching out and slapping his face.  “Gee, thanks.”
    “No, I’m