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pleasant.
    Heather cleared her throat. “I’m waiting for you to answer my question.”
    January snapped out of her thoughts. “I sent them an email, but there hasn’t been a response.”
    Heather did not try to mask her annoyance. "Well then, an hour is a long time and time is money.” She tapped her gold watch. “All you have to do is pick up the phone and say ‘I am…’ tell them your name… and let them know you sent an email and you wanted to check on the status of things.”
    January tried to stay calm. She didn’t like Heather’s patronizing manner.
    Bite your tongue . “I’ll get on it now.”
    January wanted to do well for many reasons so she’d put up with Heather, for now. It was unlikely another part-time job would pay as well as Logis App. Besides that, the company was close to campus and a short drive to her apartment. She didn’t want to think about the man behind the company. She didn’t want to admit that she was drawn to Ariel still. She didn’t want him in her daydreams.
    I can't help it.
    January knew Ariel was in his office. She’d seen when the blond woman who’d met with him once before went in. And his car was in the parking lot.
    "I'll make the call now." January turned on her heel.
    "Thank you," Heather said pointedly. “After you've spoken to the company send me a quick email to update me.”
    January nodded.
    “And then get me two tea bags from the break room.”
    January sighed.
    “Please.”
    “Sure,” January said over her shoulder. “What kind?”
    “Green tea.”
    I’d better get myself some coffee. It’s going to be a long day.

 
     
    Chapter Twelve
     
    Ariel was busy that morning with paperwork and meetings.
    He'd received a call from Michelle before he’d reached the office because she wanted to meet him. There weren’t too many people Ariel was willing to rearrange his schedule for, but Michelle was the president of a firm Ariel wanted to do business with. Her dad was the CEO of a computer giant, and Ariel wanted to partner with the company and have his software apps preinstalled on their computer systems and mobile devices.
    It would be guaranteed money for Logis. Ariel knew the partnership could mean another billion to his net worth within ten years.
    Michelle sat in his office, a short flair skirt draped just past her slender thighs. She was her father’s negotiator. Ariel knew her to be a tough cookie, but with him, she threw in an occasional tech joke here and there.
    It may have lightened the mood on the outside, but it made Ariel even more guarded.
    Michelle had a lot of sway on the direction her father’s company would go in the future. And Ariel was certain that his wasn’t the only software company courting the tech giant. This he knew from inside information. Things changed at an almost whirlwind pace in their industry, and a company’s profits could easily nosedive if management wasn’t shrewd with decisions.
    An alliance would crystallize Logia App in the public consciousness.
    But Ariel sensed Michelle had come to negotiate more than a business partnership. He’d been around women enough times to know when they wanted a hit .
    Michelle crossed her legs slowly at that moment. Ariel’s eyes drifted down, but he glanced away at the last second.
    He saw her smile.
    Should I or shouldn’t I ? In all honesty, the woman made him uncomfortable. Ariel couldn’t quite place his finger on it. But Ariel decided if he had sex with Michelle once, she’d want it again and again.
    How could she not? He smiled.
    Michelle’s smile grew wider.
    Shit! She thinks I’m responding to her flirtations.
    At the beginning of the negotiations between the two companies some weeks back, Ariel had been excited, thinking his company was a shoo-in. After all, Logis App was a hot company who knew their apps.
    Now he realized that Michelle might have been trying to decipher if he’d change his schedule for her. And if he did, it’d hint that the ball wasn’t in