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Chapter 10: Decision
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The word left his mouth before he could soften it.Her expression changed. "Distance?""Yes.""From you?"Adrian held her gaze. "From this." He gestured between them. "This isn't appropriate."Ava stared at him. "You didn't seem to think that last night."His jaw tightened. "I was wrong."She blinked. The words clearly hadn’t been what she expected.Adrian felt the need to take them back, but he forced himself to continue.“I let my judgment slip.”“Because you wanted me?”“Because you are my employee.” It came out harder than he meant. He saw her flinch, just barely, a flicker at the corner of her mouth and he wanted to reach across the space between them and smooth it away with his thumb. But he didn't.Instead she took a step closer. He could smell her now, that familiar scent of vanilla and coffee. "And if I wasn't?" She asked quietly.He said nothing. The silence answered for him.Her eyes searched his face. “You really think moving me to another department is going to f
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