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send on the e-mail, not bothering to proofread the letter one of Oro’s other executives had requested.
    Oro had fucked her once, and that had been enough. He was done with her.
    The door opened and shut, Ember exiting, traipsing over to the seat beside her, a massive stack of papers in her hands. “He wants to see you.”
    He wanted to see her. Hailey’s heart leaped. No. She squashed her blooming desire. He wanted to see her for work. “I’m done with him, Em.” She couldn’t stay here and be ignored. She couldn’t watch him with other females. “I’m putting in our resignation.”
    “I don’t mind… for me.” Ember set the papers on the desk and bent over to pet her little dog’s head. “He scares Killer. But for you…”
    “He scares me too,” she admitted. She didn’t want to care so much, to risk so much.
    “I know.” Ember smiled sadly. “But take it from me, running away never solves anything. Sooner or later, you’ll have to face your fears.”
    “Oh, I’ll face my fears all right.” Hailey stood, determined to give Oro a piece of her mind. She wasn’t running away. She was a dragon. She didn’t run away from anything. “I plan to tell my fears off before we quit.”
    Hailey stomped to the door, rapped three times, and stormed inside. Vanna jumped, her eyes widening. The willowy, black-haired beauty was seated behind the desk on Oro’s lap, her arms around his neck, her blazer open.
    Mine . A growl escaped Hailey’s lips before she could suppress it. She flexed her talons, fighting the urge to fly at Vanna and savagely rip the smug expression off her pale face.
    “You wish to see me?” She layered ice over her words as she sat down.
    “I do.” Oro inhaled deeply, his nostrils flaring and his chest rising. His lips curved into a dreamy smile, his besotted gaze fixed upon the woman on his lap, and Hailey curled her fingers, digging her talons into her palms. “Though the reason why escapes me at the moment.”
    “I won’t let you escape me,” Vanna purred as she leaned into him. Hailey watched with horror as the woman ran her long, vamp-red fingernails over Oro’s neck and followed those pink scratches with her tongue, licking him, licking her mate.
    Vanna would die. Smoke wisped around Hailey’s lips. She would die for touching what was hers.
    But Oro wasn’t hers. Hailey stared at her gold bangles, centering herself, controlling her anger. Oh, God . Hadn’t these last few days shown her that?
    She didn’t need any more days. “We quit.” Hailey stood up, smoothing down her skirt, her hands moist.
    “What the hell did you say?” Oro shoved Vanna away from him, and the woman’s pale cheeks flushed.
    “Ember and I quit,” Hailey repeated, her dark mood lightening at his immediate reaction. “We’re taking the open waitress positions at The Lair.”
    There were open waitress positions. Anxious to learn more about her own species, she’d contacted the Bronx dragon’s mate via e-mail. The very friendly Perla had excitedly shared all of The Lair gossip with her, including the recent firings of two drug-dealing waitresses.
    “You wouldn’t,” Oro rumbled. Golden scales covered his handsome face. Smoke curled from his nostrils.
    “Watch me.” She pivoted on her six-inch heels and stormed out the door. Ember glanced up as she exited. “We’re leaving.” Hailey snatched her purse out of her desk’s top drawer.
    “You’re not leaving,” Oro boomed, waves of enticing heat rolling off his big body, heat he had been sharing with another woman.
    “I’ll meet you at the apartment,” Hailey informed her wide-eyed friend. She slung the purse strap over her shoulder and stomped down the aisle.
    “You’re not leaving me.” Oro grabbed her wrist, stopping her. “You can’t.”
    “Can’t I?” She struggled and his grip tightened. “I’m not sticking around to watch you paw at another woman, Oro. I have my pride.”
    “Dragons have pride. Shit,” the huge,