Free Club Destiny 1 Conviction by Nicole Edwards Page A

inappropriate,
unprofessional and just plain wrong, but the heat that flamed around her
threatened to turn her into a quivering mass of lust.
    Maybe the best thing to do would
be to refuse the job and go back to San Antonio as fast as she possibly could.
Since that seemed a bit hasty, Sam hoped she could find a way to avoid him for
the next few days. Some time to get her head on straight was what she needed
and being within one hundred feet of him would make that nearly impossible.
    As she slid into the car, Sam’s
eyes met his once again, and she knew she had to stick to her plan. She wasn’t
imagining the heat she saw this time. There was no way she could have predicted
the storm of energy that ignited between the two of them, but she knew he felt
it as much as she did. She’d seen that look on a man’s face before, and if she
wasn’t mistaken, he wasn’t thinking about how well she would perform at the
job. Neither was she.
    That was the problem.
    She let her hair drape her face
as she broke eye contact, letting him shut the door. She avoided watching him
as he moved to the driver’s side.
    She truly needed to consider what
she would be getting herself into if she accepted this job. This was her life.
If she did something so stupid as to believe she could balance both her career
and a man like Logan McCoy, she’d be setting herself up for failure.
    Not only was he going to be her
boss, which made him totally off limits, Sam wasn’t sure she could handle the
firestorm he ignited within her.
    Damn, she was in big trouble
here.

Chapter S even
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    Exactly two months to the day had
passed since Sam formally accepted the VP job. Thankfully, Jeff agreed to stay
on for a few weeks after her official transition, and in that time, Sam had
managed to shadow him while she gathered her bearings in the organization.
    She reluctantly agreed to go to
the happy hour they threw in his honor and Sam received a warm welcome from
most of her new managers as they all said their final goodbyes to Jeff. Only
one, a tenured manager named Tricia Shoenrock, didn’t seem quite so ecstatic
about her arrival.
    According to Deanna, Tricia
believed she was a shoe in for the position, and when she wasn’t even
considered, the woman turned bitter.
    That night, Sam shared a couple
of drinks with her new team, spent a little time talking to Deanna, and
managed, thanks to a tremendous effort, to avoid Logan for the most part. Their
only interaction had been when he insisted on buying her a drink when she was
attempting to say her goodbyes, hoping to sneak out early and avoid him
altogether. His tactics worked and she stayed, spending half an hour talking to
him.
    When she finally managed to call
it a night, she’d been relieved when he didn’t walk her to her car. She
wouldn’t have been able to control herself at that point and for the entire
time she’d been in the Dallas office, she’d fought hard to put the needed space
between them.
    Outside of what was absolutely
necessary, strictly business of course, Sam tried to do most of her
communication with him via email. He wasn’t making any extra effort to have
face to face contact with her either and that both disappointed and relieved
her.
    She did find it difficult not to
try and catch a glimpse of him as he came into the office each morning. Her
office was at the opposite end of the building from his, but from her desk, she
could see the third floor landing, where most employees came and went. That was
the only indulgence she would allow herself though.
    After accepting the offer, XTX
had done what they promised to do. They bought out her apartment lease in San
Antonio, allowing Sam to select a nice, comparable apartment relatively close
to the Dallas office.
    She didn’t want to do something
as final as buying a house just yet, at least not until she was convinced
Dallas would be the right place for her, so she figured renting would be the
best avenue to