Still, that didn’t mean he couldn’t help make her life easier while he was in it.
She was in her room, hunched over the desk, entering figures into a spreadsheet on her laptop. For a moment, he propped himself in the doorway of his adjoining room and watched her. Dark-framed glasses perched on her nose, adding a sexy librarian vibe he totally didn’t need in his list of fantasies. Her red hair was pulled into a messy tail that trailed down her back. His fingers itched to comb through it and massage her scalp until those little worry lines around her eyes relaxed. Not an option. But he’d try the next-best thing.
“You’re coming with me today.”
Her head came up like some kind of startled bird. “What?”
“You need a break.”
Those auburn brows drew together. “But I need to—”
Already anticipa
