Total pages in book: 28
Estimated words: 26554 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 133(@200wpm)___ 106(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26554 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 133(@200wpm)___ 106(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
I wasn’t kidding when I said I was going to have the office fumigated. That was the first thing I had done, and then they brought in some new temporary furniture until Tracy could pick out what she wanted.
“Once the place is where you think it should be, you can decorate this room however you want.” I close the door behind us as she walks over to the new desk and computer. “All the files should be scanned in there for you.”
“There’s an event scheduled for later tonight,” she says when she walks around the desk and looks at it. “Should we cancel it?”
“Do you have enough staff to cover?”
“Oh yeah. The beer girls fight over their coolers. The tips are the best-paying job in town.”
“Then let’s see how it goes. We can call it if we need to.” I walk over behind the desk where she’s standing and take her hand. “I’ll leave you in here to get settled while I go check on things. I’ll come back when the engineer is here, okay?” I say, and she nods.
“I guess I’ll go through the schedule for tonight and make sure we’ve got what we need.”
“If you need anything, use this.” I grab the cell phone I bought her off the desk and hand it to her. “My number is already programmed in.” I wink at her as I back out of the office, wishing I could stay beside her all damn day.
“Is it under A for asshole?” she teases, and I shrug.
“You’ll have to text me and find out, sweet thing.”
When I leave her in the office and go toward the area, I’ve already got this empty feeling in my chest. How is it that after one day, I’m fucking crazy for her?
Chapter Eleven
Tracy
I think I’m in love.
At least with this new accounting system Bronco put in place. It’s going to make my day-to-day life so much easier since it tracks everything. I was having to do all this stuff myself before, and it would take up so much time. It’s something that has to be done so I know where I need to cut some things or add others in order to turn better profits. This man is making it really hard for me to not like him.
He’s so damn confusing. With the way he treats me, you wouldn’t think he’d be the type of man that would buy a woman. Maybe I should stop focusing on that so much. The bought part could be about me running this place and not the sex. Then again, he did say there was one thing he really wanted. Instantly I’m wet, and I roll my eyes at myself.
“I haven’t stepped in the room and you’re already rolling your eyes at me?” I glance up to see Bronco standing in my open office door. My heart leaps, and there’s no denying I’ve missed him. I was even disappointed when someone brought me lunch and it wasn’t him. I’d been tempted to text him, but somehow I held strong.
He’s got that handsome smirk on his face that makes my insides flutter like a first crush. I suppose he is, which makes it easy to understand the word crush now.
I start to smile back until I see the beautiful blonde next to him. She’s dressed in a soft purple blouse and slacks. She’s standing right beside Bronco, but her attention is down on the clipboard in her hand. I suddenly feel underdressed, but then I remind myself this is a rodeo.
I push back from my chair to stand. Yesterday, I would have never believed that I could work in my father’s office. Today the only thing that’s the same about the room is its location. I don’t know how Bronco pulled it off so fast, but he did. I’m finding that he’s capable of anything he puts his mind to.
“I wasn’t rolling my eyes at you,” I say as he steps into my office. The woman follows behind and finally lifts her head to give me a bright smile.
“Hi,” I greet the woman, holding my hand out.
“Tracy, this is Ms. Savino,” Bronco says before she takes my hand. This is the engineer.
“Call me Charlie. Ms. Savino is my mother, and Bronco knows it annoys me.”
Bronco grunts. “She doesn’t need to call you Charlie, that's too friendly. And let her hand go already.”
Charlie laughs but does as Bronco asks. “Didn’t know you were the jealous type. Interesting.” She pushes her glasses up her nose as Bronco folds his arms over his chest. I’m not sure what’s happening here.
“Is everything okay?” My eyes drop to the clipboard in her hand. Bronco has gone from teasing me to annoyed, and now I think he might be angry.
“Everything is great actually. Fabulous, in fact.” Charlie’s smile grows even bigger.