man enough to handle me.” Her expression turned serious as they entered the elevator. “I know you two didn’t get off on the right foot, but he’s it for me. I love him.”
Rhys had been forced to hire Aiden because he was friends with the boss, Logan Dane. Given Rhys’s feelings about hard work and the need to prove oneself, it hadn’t been a great start to their working relationship.
“You’re getting all mushy on me, Dellinger,” he joked.
“It’s true. He’s a good guy, Rhys. I want you to respect him.”
Rhys didn’t point out that respect had to be earned instead of given out like candy. But Quinn was practically family to him, so he would keep his feelings to himself and take the high road. He always took the high road.
“I do respect him. He’s on my team now so I’ll treat him the same as I treat any other employee.”
She grinned. “Tough, but fair.”
“That’s my motto.”
“I appreciate it.” She laid a hand on his arm, the pink stone in her ring glimmering. “Honestly.”
He cleared his throat. “For what it’s worth, you deserve to be happy.”
“So do you, boss. Why don’t you ever seem to have any ladies hanging around?”
Probably because Rhys kept his work life and his love life totally separate. He’d never believed in mixing the two, though he accepted that not everyone agreed with him on that.
But that didn’t mean he could avoid the little stabs of envy he got watching his friends pair up and find happiness. Maybe it was old-fashioned, but he wanted that stability. He wanted a woman to come home to, wake up next to. To make him feel like he was valued. Needed.
“This is not appropriate conversation for a manager and his employee,” he said, reminding himself that the goal right now was to have fun with a woman and not worry about the future.
“Stick-in-the-mud,” she grumbled.
She might be right, but right now Rhys didn’t have anything that he wanted to share. Especially not with being so occupied by Wren and her painting. His whole body hummed as she drifted back into his mind. There was no way he’d be able to forget what he’d seen, so he’d just have to stage a meeting with her to clear the air. And maybe fulfill a few fantasies...
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