About What Maxi Needs
Maxi Shayne needs to be on her toes as the new vice president of operations for Staci Kay Shoes. With a production crisis looming, she can’t afford distractions – but every tall, chiseled, dangerously handsome inch of Ryan Donovan is exactly that. What’s worse, the gorgeous Aussie is a numbers nerd hired to get the company back on track and Maxi is his new boss. Which means no matter how wildly tempted she is, he’s strictly off-limits.Β
Ryan hadn’t factored blue eyes, long legs, and a sexy smile into his equations for success, but after meeting Maxi, he’s definitely ready to recalculate. Keeping his mind on business isn’t easy though, because whenever she’s near, all he can think about is what else she’s got going on above her six-inch black stilettos. Before he can get the job done, Ryan will have to convince Maxi that the office doesn’t have to be all work and no play.
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Ryan pushed at the bridge of his glasses to hitch them up his nose a notch. Not dismissing the fact that he was muddying waters by bringing intimacy into their exchange, yet unable to stop himself. Maxi easily ignited his inquisitive nature. Stimulated it beyond all belief, to be exact.
βWeβre discussing people, of course.β
βHuh,β she mused with a playful smile. ββCause youβre making me think in scientific terms here, Doc.β
βHilarious,β he deadpanned at the moniker sheβd used. βPoint being, at the intervals Iβm utilizing for this hypothesis, you might end up spending approximately twenty-six hours a week with someone youβre romantically interested inβnot married to, living with, or seriously dating, mind youβversus the fifty hours you spend with someone youβre not romantically involved with. Which would conclusively indicate that you are more attuned in a more in-depth capacity at concentrated levels to the person you work with versus the person you have dinner and occasional sexual relations withβcorrect?β
Her eyes squeezed shut for a moment. Then flew open. Her mouth worked vigorously like a fish attempting to dislodge a hook stuck in its throatβor maybe she thought she had a rebuttal, but couldnβt quite form the full concept in her head.
Ryan waited patiently as she grappled with her internal ruminations.
βIβm sorry,β she finally repeated, pinning him with an intent look. βIβve completely forgotten what we were originally discussing.β
βThe theory of platonic friendship.β His gaze swept her office, landing on the framed whiteboard mounted to a portion of one wall. He stood. βLet me diagram it out for youββ
βNo!β she blurted.
His body jolted at her forcefulness. Jolted in a good way. βNo?β
βNo.β She set her sandwich aside and got to her feet, gazing deep into his eyes. βNo diagramming, extrapolating, analyzing. No low-hanging fruit here, Doc.β
She rounded the desk. Planted her hands on her hips. βCarnal compatibility isnβt about studies and measurements and quantum-fucking-physics. When two people are hot for each other, Ryan, theyβre just thatβhot for each other!β
Gripping his lapels in her slender fists, she insisted, βItβs sexual chemistry, Einstein. Raw, insane, vibrant, explosive! In its very purest, utterly basic, most fantastic form, it makes you completely irrational and urges you to tear off clothing and give in to every raging desire clawing at you. Clawing at you!β
Ryanβs pulse skyrocketed. Lust flashed through him.
Maxi wasnβt done. βAnd there is no Gantt chart in the world that can predict it, graph it, keep it on track, or promise that it wonβt wreck you to the core of your being. But when it happens? Holy hell! Just let the firestorm burn you through and through!β
She tugged him roughly to her and kissed him deeply, madly, passionately.
Ryan let her. Responded vehemently, in fact, all physical restraint fleeing. In a heartbeat.
Calista is a former PR professional, now writing fast-paced, steamy books to set your pulse racing! She is an Amazon bestseller and has won many Reviewer’s and Reader’s Choice Awards, as well as Best Book Awards and other competitions with publication as first prize. Calista is a college graduate and teaches online writing classes.Β She is also Past President/Advisor of the Phoenix Chapter of Romance Writers of America.Β
