Page 76 of Help Wanted

“Right. But it’s not the job really. It’s something else.”

“Your boss, whom you slept with.” Alyssa smirked. “You see why that is so funny, right? I mean you were fired for sleeping with the boss’s husband and now you’ve—”

“Yep. I get it.”

“You need to let it go. Men mess up anything with thinking involved. They try to anticipate what we want and they don’t have a clue. They’re constantly tripping over their dicks.” Alyssa rolled her eyes and pulled Kenley out of the way of a tourist. “Things would be so much better if people could just make appointments for sex like they do with the dentist. They could show up for their appointment, do it, and leave.”

“As I recall, I usually leave the dentist in some kind of pain.”

Alyssa ignored this and pushed her way through the mobs of people to the subway.

* * *

After dropping off their stuff and changing into suitable club attire, they caught a cab to Alyssa’s favorite hunting grounds.

Alyssa didn’t date. Like she’d said, she approached the whole concept of men as she would a business proposition. She had a need, and the other party could fill the need. Once the transaction was completed, she moved on.

It wasn’t that she was a slut. Or that she had some empty place she was trying to fill with sex. She just had the unerring ability to keep it from being emotional.

Kenley wondered if she was heading down that path. She knew from her glimpse at a sex life that tying emotions to the act made it more painful than a root canal.

She also knew she wouldn’t find anyone at the club who stirred those emotions like Zane had.

* * *

“Will they think I’m late?” Hunter asked as they pulled into the drive at Elmhurst on Monday morning. “I’m supposed to be back on Sunday night.”

“This is not a prison. You’re allowed to come and go as you please,” Brady assured his brother.

“I always come back on Sunday night.”

“I know, but we were having fun and I wasn’t ready to bring you back last night.” He also hadn’t figured out what to say to Dr. Walker.

Hunter had asked when he would be allowed to work with Kenley again at least ten times over the weekend. He’d also spent a lot of time considering what he might do with his first paycheck. Every time Brady suggested a game or something fun, Hunter resisted, saying he wanted to pay bills or buy groceries with his money like Brady did. In the end, Hunter had given the money back to Brady so he could put it in Hunter’s savings account.

Hunter raced ahead and was already telling the story of his paycheck when Brady caught up to him at the front desk. The women were smiling and telling him how proud they were of him, which made Hunter even happier.

“Is Dr. Walker available?” Brady asked the receptionist.

“Let me see.” She picked up the phone and punched a couple numbers. “Hunter Martin is back. Uh-huh. His brother would like to see you.” A pause and then a nod. “I’ll send him right in.”

Brady was already moving down the hall. “Hunter, I’ll stop in your room before I leave.”

“Okay.” He went right back into the hallway without even looking up.

The doctor opened her door before he got the chance to knock.

“Please, come in. Did you really bring him back? I was so afraid you wouldn’t and after what I did I couldn’t blame you. I’m so very sorry. After you left, I realized what I’d done and I was so stupid. I can’t believe I threatened you. I crossed the line and I can’t apologize eno—”

“Enough,” Brady said, finishing her sentence, and put up his hand to stop her confession. “Take a breath.”

As she did what he said, he noticed the rise and fall of her perfect breasts. Yes, the doctor had breasts. He hadn’t really noticed the last time. Mainly because he’d been angry, but also because she was the doctor in charge of caring for his brother, and therefore off limits as far as breast-noticing was concerned.

Now that he’d noticed said breasts, he couldn’t help but appraise the rest of the package. From her silky blond hair to her bright blue eyes and those lips. Oh, those lips.

“Are you going to sue me?” she asked with a little wince that he found adorable.

He tried desperately to put her back into the off-limits, doctor spot, but he only noticed more enticing things about her. Most appealing was the fact she wasn’t wearing a wedding ring.