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Nicole felt her heart thudding again. She wanted Alex to know the truth. ‘If it makes you feel any better, I don’t care about him anymore. I only care about you.’

Alex’s sadness seemed to vanish in a moment. She looked surprised and pleased. Nicole found herself looking from her eyes to her lips. Those luscious lips. Nicole couldn’t help herself. She leaned up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to Alex’s, just for a second.

She pulled back, shocked at herself. She wasn’t completely sure how it had happened. ‘I’m sorry—’

‘Don’t stop,’ Alex said, slipping her hands around Nicole’s face and pulling her back in.

Nicole was elated. They both wanted this. She carried on kissing Alex.

It was her first kiss with a woman. There was something different about it. Other first kisses, they’d been more like invasions—she wasbeingkissed.

With Alex, it wasn’t that way at all. Nicole was being invited into Alex. It was soft yet passionate. Tender, yet enveloping. Sweet, yet hot. It was the kiss of a lifetime. Nicole wanted it to go on forever.

But of course, life would never be so kind.

‘Whoa,’ someone said, startled.

Nicole and Alex jumped away from each other. ‘Oh shit,’ Nicole muttered.

Lena was gaping at them.

‘This isn’t good,’ Alex muttered out of the side of her mouth.

‘Christ, Alex. What the hell is it with you and shagging your bosses!’ Lena said.

‘Now, wait asecond,’ Nicole said angrily.

Lena had the nerve to turn to Nicole with an apology in her eyes, as though she were forced into this against every fibre in her being from a desire to do the right thing.

‘I’m sorry, Nicole. But I think you should know this isn’t the first time she’s—’

‘Yes, Iknow,’ Nicole said.

That threw Lena. ‘You do?’ She looked back and forth between them. ‘What’s the situation here?’

‘The situation is none of your fucking business,’ Alex told her flatly.

Lena was inflamed. ‘Well, let’s see if it’s Ethan’s business. How about that?’

‘Umm, I don’t think we need to involve him. This is private,’ Nicole said quickly.

‘Nicole, I have the utmost respect for what you do,’ Lena said in sickening tones. It was amazing how she still thought she could keep her tongue up Nicole’s arse, even now. ‘But I don’t think I can stay quiet about this. It’s occurring on work time. There could be… liability issues.’

‘What the hell are you talking about?’ Nicole asked.

‘She could sue us!’

‘Us?’ Alex laughed. ‘You an exec producer now?’

‘Nearly,’ Lena said defensively. ‘Well, producer, anyway.’

‘Oh Christ, Lena. Not you as well,’ Alex sighed without surprise.

Lena looked unpleasantly surprised. ‘What?’

‘You’re jumping from a frikking runner to a producer? On this show, there’s only one way that would happen. Did Ethan—’

‘Shut up! You don’t know anything!’ Lena screeched, looking embarrassed. She turned on her heel, running off to snitch to Daddy.