Passion and Surrender (The Billionaire's Temptation Book 6) Read Free Page B

benefits had made it an easy decision for her, especially when the economy was still rocky and jobs were hard to come by.
    Still…giving her smoking hot boss a full rundown of how she got herself off with their products hadn’t exactly occurred to her when she’d read the job description. Still, she knew Marshall’s point was a valid one. How could she be great at her job if she didn’t have a full understanding of their products and hands-on experience?
    Harper’s pulse still hadn’t settled by the time she got home that evening. Marshall had left her feeling frazzled in more ways than one, and one thing was certain—her body clearly didn’t care that Marshall was her boss.
    The moment she was through the door, she was forced to abandon her “assignment” and her dinner on the kitchen counter, as her cat, Moose, wound around her feet, attempting to trip her up in a demand to be fed. With a sigh, she popped open a tin of food for her giant Maine Coon, and then grabbed her Thai takeout, spooning the rice and coconut yellow curry onto a plate.
    Dr. Marshall Foley … The mere thought of him left her both turned on and more than a little frustrated with his assignment, even though she knew he had a valid point about her not being personally familiar with their products.
    It wasn’t as if trying their range of vibes hadn’t been on her to-do list, though to be fair, her job focused on developing the internal electrical components—not the design of the vibrator itself. Not to mention, by the time she got out of work, checked in on her dad to make sure he was doing okay, and then finally got home, all she wanted to do was curl up with a good book or watch some TV.
    It’s not as if she needed to be reminded that she had a nonexistent love life. That was pretty hard to ignore when the only one waiting for her when she got home was Moose. As for sex? It’d been far too long…not since Josh, and that had been close to three years now. After a while, it sort of felt like that part of her body had just gone dormant. And she knew how pathetic that was.
    She just hadn’t quite found the strength to move on, even if she knew she had to. Maybe that’s why she’d flirted with Marshall, knowing it was harmless since it’d never come to anything with him being her boss. Except that it was far too easy to get hooked on her little routine of flirting with him while she grabbed her morning cup of coffee and donut from the break room, or doing her best to bump into him during their workday. And look where that now landed her .
    Though she might need a bit of a kick in the ass to get her sex life jumpstarted, it didn’t mean that she wanted to go on a sex toy marathon and then discuss her findings with her smoking hot boss— not even her boss , but rather the owner and CEO of the entire company .
    She groaned at the thought and finished off her dinner, which totally hit the spot with its spicy coconut sauce, savory chicken, crunchy vegetables, and sweet pineapple, and then turned on the TV in her cozy living room, doing her best to ignore her work assignment. She flipped through the channels, one after the other, but with her assignment hanging over her head, she just couldn’t relax or get settled.
    Mumbling curses, she grabbed the vibrator box out of her bag, knowing there was no way out of it, rustled up a pad of paper and a pen so she could take notes, and grabbed herself a hard cider from the fridge. Heading to her bedroom to complete her assignment, she plopped herself on the bed, half-wondering if she’d get paid overtime for getting herself off.
    Though the vibe she’d grabbed before leaving the office had yet to go into production, they were also in the process of perfecting the packaging, so she made sure to take note of those details as well. She had to admit, this was not some cheap and cheesy joke store vibrator, with its clear outer package, announcing to everyone exactly the sort of tawdry item that was being