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“You look beautiful. Brains and beauty, you are perfection, Bailey.” My body warmed as his eyes slowly looked over my power suit; when he saw my heels, he bit his bottom lip before he slowly ran his tongue over it.

I tried not to, but I shifted uncomfortably from his compliment.

That little motion of him licking his lip was almost my undoing.

I never wanted to kiss someone as strongly as I wanted to kiss him.

When his eyes returned to mine, I quickly looked down and pretended to pick some imaginary lint off my blazer. I heard him softly chuckle just as he slowly walked around me to open the door and gestured for me to walk ahead of him.

As soon as I walked past him, he placed his hand on my lower back to guide me over the threshold.

The moment his palm touched me, my already sexually charged body suddenly felt like it was suddenly on fire.

Sexual desire like I never felt before had hit me so hard between my thighs that my knees buckled mid stride, and I stumbled.

Just as I was about to fall on my face, Titan’s strong arms wrapped around me from behind.

“You ok?” He said near my ear, not letting me go until I was steady on my feet.

“Y—yeah,” I stammered and then I cleared my throat awkwardly. “These heels,” I said as an excuse.

“Yeah…the heels.” He smiled staring into my eyes until I gently extracted myself out of his embrace. I readjusted my laptop bag and when Titan was about to grab it to carry it for me, I side stepped him so I could stay in front of him.

To my surprise, Titan kept his hand on my lower back as he walked beside me toward the lobby where his brothers were gathered by the elevator.

I was so lost in my thoughts about how much his touch affected me that I didn’t see my brother standing in the doorway of my office.

Which is why I went full white woman and screamed like I was in a horror movie when I felt my feet leaving the ground as soon as I turned my head to the right to say bye to Titan.

When I heard my brother Dante’s deep laugh and him mumble that I’ve always been so dramatic, that's when my brain sped up and I calmed down.

I was now laughing as I threw my arms wide and hugged him with all the strength I could muster as he spun me around like he used to do when I was younger.

“I was waiting in your office to surprise you,” he said after he put me down. The papers in my hand were now wrinkled and my laptop bag was now on the floor, but I didn’t care. I was about to respond when I heard Titan clear his throat loudly from behind me like he did in the conference room.

“Friend of yours?” Titan’s voice sounded too controlled, and his posture looked too stiff. I saw his eye twitch and he blinked like he was doing his best not to let his anger show.

“Mr. Browning.” I began, trying to maintain professionalism, but Titan screwed his face up like someone farted and kept walking before he cut me off.

“Bailey, call me Titan,” he said, stepping closer to me and I didn’t miss the amusement on my brother’s face when he raised his eyebrow because Titan was definitely giving off “she mine” energy.

“Oh…ok. This is my oldest brother, Dante. Dante, I just signed Titan’s family business, Hydro to the company,” I said a little too excitedly in hopes of breaking the testosterone fueled tension coming from Titan but when I said that Dante was my brother, I saw his stance visibly relax.

“Congratulations, sis; and nice meeting you, Titan. You’re in good hands with my sister,” Dante stated, giving Titan’s hand a firm shake.

“I can’t wait to see how capable Bailey’s hands are,” Titan said, making sure he made direct eye contact with me.

Titan’s ass wasn’t slick; I didn’t miss the double entendre behind his statement and the sensation between my thighs told me my pussy was ready to give him what he wanted.

I shook off the sexual tension building between us yet again, because I did not want to feel like a dog in heat all day.

“I have to get going but I’ll have my assistant call you to set up a time to meet again,” Titan said and before I knew what he was doing, he grabbed my hand and lifted it to his mouth.

When I felt his soft lips on the back of my hand, I had to bite the inside of my cheek to stifle the moan that was close to escaping my mouth.

“Ok.” My throat suddenly felt dry, so my voice cracked slightly.

“It was nice meeting you, Dante,” Titan said, this time he dapped my brother up like they were friends before he walked away to join his brothers on the elevator.

I turned around to face my brother as soon as I heard the elevator doors open, but I could feel Titan’s heated stare on my back until the doors closed.

“Sis, it seems we have a lot to catch up on, let’s order some lunch,” my brother suggested, walking into my office.

Luckily, my schedule was free for another two hours since Titan took it upon himself to move our meeting up.

But because my brother just popped up here unannounced, he didn’t care if my schedule was open or not.

“Penny, can you please call in an order from that restaurant down the street? I’ll have my usual, and my brother will have a double cheeseburger, fries?—”

“And a diet Coke, make sure it’s diet because my body is a temple, and I have to watch my figure,” Dante said, cutting me off and I rolled my eyes because my brother was in amazing shape due to years of running track.

My brother has been a track star since junior high; he was so good he got a full scholarship to college but took a break so he could train for the Olympics, and he would have made it, but he had to withdraw due to medical reasons.

So, he went back to school and now he’s a board-certified Neurologist with the highest patient rating in the state.

We had the same brown complexion and brown eyes, but that’s where our similarities began and ended.

He and my middle brother Anthony inherited their height and build from our father, so they towered over me.

I was curvy and average height just like my mama.

Dante was 6 '4 and he kept both his head and face bald as the day he was born because another thing he and my brother inherited from our father was premature gray hair. I thought it was cute, Anthony didn’t mind it because not only would he beat the shit out of anyone who teased him, but he wasn’t fully gray yet, but Dante’s hair was completely silver before middle school.

I remember when he shaved it off in junior high because he said it helped him run faster when in actuality it was because he was getting bullied.

“Ok.” Penny’s breathless response pulled me out of my thoughts.

Hearing the unrestrained lust in her voice from looking at my brother made me narrow my eyes at her.

Penny noticed the look on my face and quickly picked up the phone to order our lunch.

I shook my head in annoyance because my brother had that effect on women, and he knew it.

That’s why he enjoyed being a bachelor very much.

When I walked into my office, Dante was sitting on the couch against the wall with his large feet propped on the wood coffee table in front of him.

“Make yourself comfortable, why don’t you,” I said sarcastically, and he just smirked.

When I sat next to him, he threw his arm on the back of the couch.

“So, tell me about your latest adventures,” I said, laying my head against his shoulder, getting comfortable until our lunch arrived.

I didn’t have the slightest idea what half the words meant that left my brother’s mouth, but I loved how animated he got when he talked about his career.

So, I sat and listened to him regale me with stories about some of his most complex neurology cases.