- ALEX (ELISE) "Four hours are up, Jones. Shut it down." I blinked, my blurry eyes snapping away from the glowing monitor. Liam was standing right outside my cubicle, leaning against the grey partition with his arms crossed over that ridiculous chest. He wasn't wearing his suit jacket anymore, just a tight black button-down with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He looked entirely too large for the tech department. "I’m literally in the middle of a script deployment, Kane," I muttered, clicking my mouse aggressively to look busy. "Give me twenty minutes." "No." He reached over, reached right past my face, blasting my nose with that addictive cedar-and-rain scent, and slammed my laptop shut. "Go home. Now. Before I have security escort you out for trespassing." "You are a control fr

