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clearly had known I was his employee well before that meeting. The question was, exactly how long had he known?
    He held open his office door and I marched inside with my head held high. I wasn’t going to let him see how much this bothered me. But I was going to call him out on his bullshit. I waited until he closed the door before speaking.
    “How could you?” I spat.
    William’s head snapped. “What?” It was clearly not what he had been expecting me to say.
    “You knew I was your employee, and you slept with me anyway. And then you made fun of me in front of the entire company. You’re a pig.” I crossed my arms over my chest to keep from punching something. Or William.
    “Jesus, Olivia, no. That’s not what happened.” He made to reach for me, but when he saw the fury in my eyes, he thought better of it. “I didn’t know. Not then.”
    “Then when? When did you find out?” I wasn’t sure I believed him, but I began to soften just a little.
    “This morning. I swear.” William held out his hands helplessly. “I knew I had a new employee named Olivia Harris, but I had no idea it was you until my assistant sent me the presentation with your picture in it.”
    “I find that highly unlikely. You knew my name long before today.”
    William shook his head. “No. Lana told me your name was Livy. You introduced yourself as Livy. You never told me your last name, and I never asked. It was just supposed to be one night, remember? Just a memory?”
    Now he was using my words against me and it infuriated me all over again. “Do you have to be such an ass? Is that a requirement to being the CEO of your own company?”
    His eyes flashed at my name calling. “It’s pretty bold of you to call your boss an ass your fifth day on the job.”
    “It’s pretty bold of you to screw your employee. Twice.” I wasn’t about to back down. “Did you have to humiliate me like that out there? Didn’t you already get what you wanted?”
    William’s face fell. “I am sorry about that, Livy. I wasn’t trying to throw it in your face. I thought you would find it funny.”
    “Funny? That’s what you thought? You caught me completely off guard out there, William. It was bad enough I had just found out I slept with my boss, but then you basically told everyone in the company. Maybe they didn’t understand the joke, but I did. I was mortified.” I really wanted to continue being mad but being with William again was distracting on so many levels.
    “I never meant to do that. I thought you had fo und out, and that’s why you ignored my calls and emails. I just assumed once you started working here you must have learned who I was.” What William said made sense. I should’ve known who the CEO of Gravity was even before I started, but if not then, definitely on the first day. It was practically a miracle that it had taken so long for me to find out.
    “That doesn’t make this okay,” I said, but my arms dropped to my side. William could tell he had a way in and he took it. He took three steps toward me and I didn’t back away.
    “You have no idea how good it is to see you again,” he said. He reached for me again, and I almost let him succeed at his attempt. At the last second, I stepped away.
    “No, William. We can’t do this.” I stepped around him, keeping a wide berth. “You’re my boss.”
    “We were lovers first,” he reminded me. “Doesn’t that change things?”
    “Maybe it does,” I confessed. “But we still can’t do this.”
    He wanted to protest, to debate it more, but I didn’t let him. I yanked open the door quickly to cut off any further discussion on the topic.
    I didn’t get much done the rest of the day. Fortunately, because I was so new, I didn’t have a lot on my plate yet. I was relieved when Tara stopped by and interrupted my thoughts but then she mentioned the happy hour.
    “You’re going tonight, right?” she said.
    I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to see William again.