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interview her and the other workers
throughout the week for the next segment of the documentary.”
    “Good.”
    “Um. Do you have any questions or
requests?” Blue asked her boss.
    “Yes.”
    “Oh?” she asked, breathless. She was caught
by surprise because she really hadn’t expected him to ask her anything else. Her
heart pounded hard and fast in her chest.
    “Have dinner with me, tonight?”
    Zack’s invitation slid off his sexy tongue
like melted caramel. His voice was low, silky and deep. The reaction sent
shivers of delight running through her belly. Her inner thighs tingled
deliciously. Oh, no.
    Blue felt her breath stop. She could not
answer him. She wanted to. So he wasn’t rejecting her after all. He just wanted
to make it official. But have dinner with him…tonight?

CHAPTER FIVE

 
 
    “I…I can’t,” Blue whispered, breathless. Finally,
she managed to squeeze a vocal sound through her nerve-constricted throat. What
was she saying?
    Sexy, sizzling, affluent bachelor, Zack
Romero—her boss, just asked her to dinner. Tonight! And she said no. She
said no . Was she out of her mind? But
she could not stop herself. She just wasn’t prepared. She couldn’t. After that
kiss, she wanted to do more with him. But she couldn’t. Not tonight.
    “No?” he echoed, seductively. A salacious
grin touched the corner of Zack’s sexy-as-sin lips as he leaned forward in his
chair. His brow raised a fraction. It was as if he were amused that someone had
declined to dine with him.
    “Um…well. I mean…”
    His silence, waiting for her to finish her
sentence, was overwhelming. Blue perspired in her seat. Her mind was all
scrambled. She knew she just couldn’t drop everything she had to do tonight to go
out with him. To have dinner with him.
    It’s
only dinner, Blue. He wants to have a meal with you. Not have you for his meal.
      Blue really didn’t want to get into her
personal life. She didn’t want to tell him the real reason she wasn’t free to
just do as she pleased right now. But she didn’t want to come off as rude
either. Should she tell him?

 
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    The woman actually said no? Her response to his question rendered Zack off
guard. Sweet . Despite that tasty kiss
a while ago, the woman was not easy !
      That was a good sign. And it took a
minute for him to remember that he was to stay clear of sexual relations for at
least another day. Which was also good. But he still had another day of
abstinence to go. He groaned inwardly at the thought.
    Zack leaned back in his soft leather chair
and slid his gaze down this woman’s opulent facial features. How intriguing. A
woman telling him no was not something he heard, often. Or
ever in his recent years. His eyes surveyed Blue Monroe as she sat in
her seat across from his desk, practically squirming as if she were his prey.
Why did she react that way with him?
    She possessed the most delicate, dainty
features he’d seen on a woman. Her sweet, fully defined lips looked as red as
ripe strawberries and tasted as sweet as the grapes that made the wine in his
winery.
    But oh, Zack would love to taste much more
than just those sexy lips of hers. He wanted to taste all of her. This woman
was causing a strangely delicious reaction in his body that was stronger than
he had ever had with a woman.
    Her caramel skin was enticing to his eyes.
The contrast with her beautiful, silky, black hair that had a healthy shine to
it brought a warm feeling inside him. My God, this woman was pleasing to his
eyes—and he was sure to any man who became captivated by her beauty. Did Blue
even know this? Judging by her awkward demeanor, she sure didn’t act as if she was
a god-gifted beauty. There she was, so educated and talented and yet she never
displayed a grain of vanity.
    A surge of heat raced through him. He
really wanted to hear the reason why she couldn’t or wouldn’t have dinner with
him.
    Suddenly the deal he’d made with his
grandfather to