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didn’t have a
frigid bone in her body—that much I knew. I’d have to handle her carefully, I’d
have to prove I wasn’t just going to drop her as soon as another pretty face
showed up, but just from one night with her it was obvious that she was the
hottest fuck I’d find in months.
    I caught sight of Olivia right about when I had finished my
beer and was deciding whether to move on—go home, or meet up with one of the
guys wherever they’d gone. She definitely wasn’t working; I grinned to myself
at the sight of her in a short skirt and a pair of boots, with a filmy,
thin-strapped blouse over it. The skirt wasn’t so short that she couldn’t bend
over, but it definitely showed off her legs, and made me remember just what she
looked like naked.
    I watched her for a little while, working out my approach in
my mind. Normally I almost never had to really even think about how to approach
a girl; normally just walking up to them and making a little conversation was
enough. But after the way she’d left me in the morning, and the way she’d responded
to my text, I had to give it a little thought.
    I saw her heading for the bar and started in that direction
myself, moving from my table and walking up so that I’d arrive at just about
the same moment she did, almost right next to her. Olivia looked a little
distracted—which was to my benefit. I got to the bar next to her, and
barely—barely—brushed up against her, while I leaned against the bar, my
attention on the bartenders. “Nick?” I looked at her and grinned slightly.
    “Fancy meeting you here,” I said. I held up one hand to
indicate I was ready to order.
    “Are you stalking me or something?” Olivia pressed her lips
together, looking anything but pleased to see me.
    “I’m here a few times a week, at least,” I said, shrugging.
One of the bartenders, Rachel, came up to me. “Isn’t that right, Rachel?”
    “You haven’t seen him here before, Liv?” Rachel shook her
head. “Although I have to say usually Nicky either hangs out at the arcade
machines or finds someone to go home with about twenty minutes after he walks in
the door.” Not the best thing for Rachel to have mentioned just then.
    “I hang out plenty,” I countered. “Just not on the nights
you work.”
    “My editor said that he got a call from your manager,”
Olivia said, still halfway scowling at me. “You didn’t bitch about me, did
you?”
    “Nope,” I told her, shaking my head. Rachel put a PBR down
in front of me and I picked it up. “In fact, you should meet with your editor
as soon as possible.”
    “Why is that?” Olivia crossed her arms over her chest.
Rachel asked her what she wanted, interrupting our conversation. “Jack and
Coke, please,” Olivia said absently.
    “Because you might just have an interesting opportunity in
front of you. Not one you’re obligated to take, but one that would put you in a
very good position in your career,” I told Olivia. I grinned again; I’d already
decided that I wasn’t going to try and talk my way into her bed—or talk my way
into getting her into my bed—that night. “I’d be curious to hear
your thoughts about it.” I raised my PBR and took a step back from the bar.
“Think I’ll drink this and then meet up with Jules wherever he’s landed for the
night.” I felt Olivia watching me as I left the bar to wander around the room;
I made sure that as long as I knew we were both still in the building, I only talked
to guys. I needed to make a good impression, after all.

 
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    “What did you do?” I’d picked up my phone the moment I saw
Olivia’s contact information on the screen.
    “Huh?” It was ten in the morning—practically the crack of
dawn by my normal standards. I’d ended up hanging out with Jules, who always
seemed to manage to stay up until about four or five—sometimes until the actual
crack of dawn.
    “My editor told me that if I want the assignment, I could be
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