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The Playboy's Baby by J.M. Stewart5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “She’s mine.” He stuffed his hands into his pockets and leaned back against the end of the desk behind him. I refuse to punish her because of this, but-” We’ll exchange Annie through your mother. I’ll give you time to find a replacement, but that’s it. “I came back up here to give you two weeks’ notice. Sadness and regret added a haunted shadow to the dark depths that wanted to melt her resolve. The look in his eyes got to her, and for a moment, she froze. “I was just about to come find you,” he said. Dillon stood on the other side of the threshold, his arm out, like he was reaching for the handle. Pulling the door open, she came to an abrupt halt. ![]() She’d give him two weeks’ notice, starting tomorrow. Sliding off the stool, she went back up to the office. Outside of their connection to Annie, she didn’t want anything to do with him. For her own sake, she needed to unravel her life from his. Working for him had been a very bad idea. Then he wandered off, leaving her alone to fume. She pursed her lips and furrowed her brow. “Want another?” When she shook her head, he picked up the glass. When Ronnie refilled her glass, she knocked that one back too, but the warmth spreading through her did nothing to unravel the hard knot of anger in her stomach. She knocked it back in one swallow, grimacing when the fiery liquid burned a path down her throat. “Bad night?” Ronnie set a shot glass down in front of her and filled it with a deep, amber liquid. ![]()
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