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prototype designs—while wearing a pair of silky black workout shorts with splashes of red and orange along the legs, another one of their new designs. While Dallas was a completely disorganized mess as far as business was concerned, he was also brilliant when it came to designing innovative new clothing and training gear for fighters. And he was so sexy it made her nipples ache and her panties instantly dampen.
    Damn him.
    He wasn’t aware that she’d come in yet, intent on working the speed bag with his thick muscles flexing along his shoulders, chest, arms, and oh-so-tight abdominals. His short black hair was already wet with sweat and the gleam of his naturally dark tan skin in the sunlight coming through the windows was awe inspiring. A tribal tattoo flowed from his shoulder, over his chest, and down one side of his torso before disappearing into his shorts. She knew the tattoo extended down over his hip and left buttock and her fingers twitched with the need to jerk those shorts down and trace the pattern with her tongue. Earlier this year Dallas had done a photo shoot for one of their new products, a super absorbent towel, with said towel only hiding his groin as he gave the camera an unabashedly arrogant smile. While he sucked at the day-to-day tasks of running a business, the man had enough charisma and good looks to sell a ketchup popsicle to a lady wearing white gloves.
    Before he could spot her drooling over him, she schooled her features into a professional mask and made her way over to the small desk Dallas had installed in the gym for her. He really did get some of his best ideas while working out and she usually spent at least a portion of every day that Dallas was in the office down here with him. He’d retired from the UFC over a year ago, but he still trained like he was an active fighter. By the time she’d set up her laptop the sound of him punching the bag had stopped and when she looked up she found him watching her with an odd expression on his chiseled features.
    “Good morning, Mr. Ortega,” she said in her best cool, professional tone.
    “Good morning, Amanda,” he replied in his husky voice with just a trace of his Spanish accent seeping through.
    The way he said her name, like he was relishing the words on his tongue, never failed to send her pulse racing, but she ignored it as best she could. There was no way she would let him know how much he affected her. Not anymore. When she’d first started working for him she’d briefly entertained the fantasy that he wanted her, but now she knew he just liked to flirt with anything female. Even if she made the terribly stupid move of sleeping with her boss, she’d be just another notch in his belt and she had too much self-respect to for that. Especially considering she really liked him. Being discarded after he tired of her would hurt too much.
    She took a seat and looked up at him expectantly. “What would you like to work on today?”
    His gaze darkened and the sexual heat he gave off would have melted a normal woman’s clothes right off her body, but she’d been around him long enough to give her a tiny bit of immunity to his natural animal magnetism. “Can you pull up the test shots for the new women’s line? I need to send the outfit choices to Donna so she can start fitting the models.”
    “Of course.”
    As she began to open the folders containing the different designs she couldn’t help but wonder how many of their models he’d charm into bed with him. On Saturday night they were unveiling their new women’s wear line and Dallas had rented out one of the hottest clubs in Miami for the reveal party. Amanda would be there as his PA and she did not look forward to a night spent trailing behind him as he both did business and selected which woman from his hordes of groupies he’d fuck that night. Her heart ached and she clenched her jaw, reminding herself yet again that she had absolutely no reason to be jealous, and that if she