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but this guy was like, waiting for me. He was…he was…naked.”
    Simms removed his hands from her arms and stood up, shaking his head.
    “Bastard. Did he say he knew Wayne?”
    Christy could tell Simms was considering Wayne’s involvement, which further underscored some of her own hesitation to be anywhere near the man.
    “No. He didn’t. In fact, Wayne acted like he’d never heard of him.”
    The appearance of a very angry Wayne, puffed up and red, tore apart their conversation. He pulled open the glass sliding door without being given the nod of approval from Simms, and wedged himself into the room, making it feel suddenly very stuffy.
    “What the hell happened, Christy? My clients called me, and they’re so mad they want to cancel the listing.” His tiny bloodshot eyes darted back and forth between Christy and their manager.
    “Wait a minute, Wayne.” Simms put a palm on Wayne’s sausage-shaped chest, holding him back from coming any closer to her. “Christy here was just explaining what went on yesterday, and I have to say, I find this highly disturbing.”
    “Disturbing? Disturbing? I’ll tell you what’s disturbing!” Wayne said, looking like he wanted to crash through Simms and grab Christy himself.
    Great! Another man wants to attack me.
    “I work damned hard to get a good listing, then try to take my wife and kids to the zoo—just try to take one Sunday off to be with them the way I never do—and I drive by the house on our way home, and voila, no open house signs. No sign of Christy anywhere. Then I get home and I get this irate message on my answering machine telling me I’m fired.”
    “Wayne, you sack of shit.” Christy’s own surprise wasn’t half of what got reflected on Wayne and Mr. Simms’s faces. One of the office staff came running to check the ruckus so Christy toned down her voice. “I was going to hold it open, but there was this naked crazy guy who came after me and…and…”
    “What?” Wayne looked genuinely shocked.
    Simms interrupted. “Apparently, Christy was attacked, Wayne. That’s what she was trying to tell you.”
    “No way.”
    Christy hated the man now. Genuinely hated him. His sense of morals, his scheming, his lack of sensitivity to her and what she was going through, and the way he’d pushed his oversized body into Mr. Simms’s office. Anger boiled in her stomach. Christy had reached her limit.
    “I’m not putting up with this. I quit. No way can I work in the same office with this…this…idiot.” She pointed to Wayne, wanting to say something nastier but thinking better of it.
    Christy tore around her manager and sneered at Wayne as she pushed him with one hand, which sent him careening against a bookshelf with a loud crash. Christy saw the ruckus had attracted every staffer in the area. Simms bolted past Wayne, who tried to right himself, still thrashing in a nest of books and files.
    “Christy,” Wayne called after her. “Christy, wait a minute. This is all wrong.”
    She turned and glared at him. “That’s the first truthful thing I’ve heard all morning.”
    She dug in her heels and whirled around to exit, then ran straight into the chest of one very solid wall of man, holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and three red open house signs in the other.
     

Chapter 4
     
    “You!” Christy said, suddenly aware of the understatement. His blue eyes melted her bones. She needed air and pushed against him to step back a safe distance, if that was possible.
    She wondered if he felt the electric ripple that traveled with lightning speed all over her skin’s surface.
    Probably not.
    His face had that soft smirk, and he held his head at an angle. He looked more uncomfortable holding the flowers than the three metal open house signs.
    “I came to apologize for the misunderstanding.” His deep voice, cracking just a little, was dripped in honey and ensnared her as if he’d tied her up with pantyhose again. She shivered at the very thought