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soon as Penny gave the word. “No, he was never cruel, but he knew.
He would wink at me and say things that made me blush. I even deluded myself
into thinking he was going to kiss me at one point during a school field trip.”
     
    “Did you bring the CD?” her friend Amy asked.
    “Right here.” Penny inserted the disc into the CD player
she’d brought. The hotel had let some of the kids into a conference room while
the chaperones worked out the details with the check-in desk.
    The music kicked on and she started dancing with a couple
of her friends. Not paying attention, she bumped into a six-foot-tall Dante.
    He turned on her and grasped her wrists. “Watch out or
I’ll have to pin you.”
    “Like you could ever get me down. You forget, I have
weight on my side.” Penny couldn’t believe Dante was touching her in such an
easy way.
    He smiled and she welcomed the butterflies that were
always present in her tummy whenever he was around.
    “You can’t win,” he announced, grabbing her knee and
bringing her to the carpeted floor. She feigned fighting him, mostly because
all she wanted to do was grab him and kiss his lips. The more she fought, the
tighter his grip on her wrists became until he’d pinned her to the floor. He
stared down at her and she swallowed, unable to move. The rest of the students
in the room faded away and there was only her and Dante.
    His face loomed and her eyes widened, her lips parting as
anticipation grew.
    “Hey, you two, time to go.”
    They jerked their heads toward Amy. Damn. She’d
interrupted what Penny thought of as the perfect moment and then it was lost…
     
    Wendy was looking at her with a lazy grin. “Oh my God. You
had one of those scenes like out of some teen movie. The dream that could have
been.”
    Penny rolled her eyes. Wendy may have appeared to be a hard-ass
but she was a die-hard romantic at heart. “I think it was more wishful thinking
on my part than anything. Reality is never so breathtaking, and I was only
sixteen at the time.”
    “The question is, now what are you going to do?”
    Penny didn’t want to think about it but she didn’t have a
choice. “I’m going to do what any smart woman would and pretend it didn’t
happen. I’ll tuck it away as a night to remember and leave it at that.” A night
of mind-blowing sex with two hot men, a little champagne and the right dress.
    * * * * *
    What did they say about famous last words? She crumpled the
small Post-it attached to her computer screen. Dante wanted to see her the
minute she came in.
    She decided to ignore the edict and went about her day. Kale
had enough work that Penny spent very little time at her own desk and instead
ran to various other offices the company did business with to pick up priority
paperwork. She ate lunch out and by the time she’d come back, she was knee-deep
in responding to emails and other loose ends that needed to be tied up.
    Half an hour before the end of the day, Kale came to her
cubicle. The tall, slim blonde sat on the edge of Penny’s desk. “I’m going away
for a month.”
    Penny frowned; her boss never took time off. “Is everything
okay?”
    Kale’s face was paler than usual. “I have some urgent
personal business to take care of. You’re going to have to report directly to
Dante.”
    Penny felt as though she’d been punched in the gut. She’d
spent the day avoiding him and now she was going to have to work with him on a
daily basis for an entire month?
    “Penny. Penny, you look like you’ve swallowed a lemon. Is
this going to be a problem for you?”
    She adored her boss. Kale was such a smart, bright and
ambitious woman. Penny also knew Kale wouldn’t leave unless it was extremely
important. She wasn’t going to let down the woman who’d taught her so much.
Kale had hired her with only a high school diploma and allowed Penny to work
her way up. She owed the woman a debt she could never repay. Kale had loaned
her the money to get her college degree