The soft knock on my office door was followed immediately by it swinging open without permission.“Morning, boss,” Aiden drawled, strolling inside with the same irreverence he’d shown me since college.I didn’t even look up from the documents I was signing. “Learn to wait for a response after knocking.”“Good morning, Mr. Blackwood,” came another voice.My head snapped up at once.That voice.Well, well, well. Look who found me.Standing in my office,impossibly, absurdly,was the very man I’d been trying not to think about every damn night for weeks. My hot stranger. Except now he wasn’t a stranger at all.“This is Ethan Pierce,” Aiden said, dropping lazily onto the couch across from me, like he hadn’t just detonated a bomb in my life. “Your new bodyguard.”My insides were doing things I would never have admitted out loud. I was so close to laughing at the universe for its twisted sense of humor.“Mr. Pierce here will make sure you feel safe wherever you are.” Aiden continued with a li
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