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at that.  He merely stared right back.
    The rest of the office was silent and watching the exchange with interest.  “Yes, of course,” she mumbled.
    He nodded and his lips twitched into a brief smile.  He turned on his heel and walked away.
    “Jeez, Jessie, he never comes down here.  What did you do?” whispered Robbie.
    Her squirrel whimpered.  He wasn’t going to fire her, was he?
    *
    Gerry took a deep breath before he called ‘come in’.  He could do this.  She was a tiny squirrel shifter.  He had nothing to worry about.  He was forty-four fucking years old, for crying out loud.  He could handle himself against a squirrel shifter called Jessica Mary Duchamp, who happened to be twenty-three years old and was born and raised in a small town called Nutsville.  He assumed that her scurry – and yes that really was the collective name for squirrels – had something to do with the naming.
    It wasn’t weird that he knew those details.  He may have taken a look at her file.  He may have memorized her file .  The picture they had on file for her did not do her justice.  Her eyes were closed, and her mouth formed an O of surprise.  In reality, she was beyond lovely.  So lovely she made everyone and everything around her melt into the background in their inordinate plainness.
    His snake sighed as she entered and stomped her way over to his desk.  He hid his smile because it was indeed a stomp.  Her pretty face, with flaming red cheeks and pouting lips, looked furious.  Despite her small size, the enormous combat boots made quite a ruckus.  He tried not to stare at her chest, currently clothed in a blue t-shirt with a picture of two kittens that said ‘you’ve cat to be kitten me’.  To Gerry, who had only dated snake shifters who mainlined in sleek business suits, he found it surprisingly sexy.
    “You can’t fire me,” she declared folding her arms over her chest, pushing the kittens up and out.
    Gerry snapped to attention, feeling embarrassment for actually staring at a woman’s chest.  He wasn’t sure he’d even done that when he was a horny teenager.  Even as a boy he’d been able to control his baser urges.  This darn squirrel made them all bubble to the surface.
    He looked at her for a few moments, and she fidgeted under his gaze.  “Fire you?  Why would I fire you?”
    “Because of what happened before Christmas.”
    He felt a pang at the unhappiness on her face.  He’d done that to her .  But hadn’t she welcomed the kiss?  Even participated with a warmth and enjoyment he had never encountered with any of his previous partners.  Hadn’t she wanted him to kiss her?  The thought that she might not have unnerved him.  But no, that wasn’t important.  It was better if she wasn’t interested in him.  Yes, kept telling himself that.
    “I wish to apologize for that,” said Gerry, ignoring the fury of his snake.  “That was very unprofessional of me.  I should never have seduced you.”
    Jessie snorted in disdain but the color bloomed even darker in her cheeks, and she couldn’t take back the sharp intake of breath.  “Seduced me?  You didn’t seduce me.  It was just a kiss, and you weren’t the first I kissed that night.”
    Gerry braced himself as his snake surged forward.  The beast wanted out.  The beast wanted to hunt down and murder any male who had ever touched her.  He clenched his fists.  “I remember you said so on the night.”
    “I’m not easy if that’s what you think.” 
    “I would never think…”
    “And obviously, you can tell I haven’t got that much experience with kissing.”
    Gerry frowned at her as embarrassment and anger competed for dominance on her face.  “I’m not sure I understand what you mean.”
    “Well clearly my kissing skills are awful otherwise, I wouldn’t have sent you running away like a little girl.”
    He disregarded the obvious insult and tried to ignore how fetching her bottom lip looked when it