Before He Was My Boss.
I shook my head at my own reflection.
I was bold but I wasn’t that bold.
“Fuck it.” I tugged the sash loose and let the fabric fall open anyway.
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He was on the couch when I stepped out, and my mouth very fell open. Literally.
He was shirtless. Like, completely, entirely shirtless — bare from the waist up, and I had never in my life been this close to a shirtless man who looked like that. Like him. The breadth of his shoulders, the definition of his chest, and the narrow taper of his waist had me swallowing.