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Chapter Seven
     
    Carter paced back and forth across his living room floor,
nervous that he might have scared Kate away with his aggressive words, with his
aggressive actions. He hadn’t meant to ask the girl to be his, hadn’t planned
on touching her like he did. She had definitely enjoyed that part, but what
about tomorrow, when she had time to think about everything? Would she
understand his brash manner?
    He had been lusting after Kate every damn day. His cock went
half hard every time she walked into the room, so he’d already suffered weeks
of hell, having her so close but just out of reach. Carter knew he had to do
something to keep her here, but he might have gone overboard.
    It was too late to take any of it back. The only thing he
could do now was wait, and hope she felt just as strongly about him, hope that
he didn’t scare her away.
    Carter tore a brown piece of cardboard from some of his
packaging, wrote the words Help Wanted in big black letters and then
shoved the sign up in his window.
    Either way this whole thing went, he was going to have to
find someone new to work for him. If Kate agreed to be his, he didn’t want her
to have to work. She’d need to save all her energy for their nights together. He
didn’t want to think about the other option. It would hurt like hell to know
his impulsive actions had pushed Kate away. And this was just the start of the
things that might scare her from him.
    * * * * *
    There was an extra bounce in her step as Kate walked to work
in the morning. She was excited to tell Carter that she was going to stay the
summer and was willing to see where things would go with their relationship. It
was still too early to say yes to being his, but she wasn’t going to say no
either, and she was definitely willing to give it a chance. Kate was pretty
sure Carter was going to be happy to hear the news.
    When she got to his house, she saw there was a Help Wanted
sign in the window. He sure wasn’t wasting any time replacing her. Had he
changed his mind already? Yesterday he wanted to keep her and today he just
wanted her to go? She couldn’t get tossed away by another man so quickly. It
wasn’t right. A lump formed in her throat. What was wrong with her that all the
men in her life would treat her this way?
    Kate opened the door slowly and walked in to find Betsy
talking to Carter.
    “When would you be able to start?” Carter’s voice boomed
through the room while he offered Better-Than-Thou Betsy a job.
    Every muscle in her body tensed and she could feel her face
flush red. How could he? Carter was actually going to hire that woman. Kate
should speak up, let him know that she wanted to keep her job and that she didn’t
want Betsy taking her position, but she just watched silently as Carter gave
away her job.
    “I can start today,” Betsy said with a smirk that Kate
wanted to slap right off her face.
    “Great, Kate can train you,” Carter offered without her
consent. She sure as hell didn’t want to train Betsy, didn’t want to even be in
the same room as her for any significant amount of time.
    “I’m sure it can’t be that difficult.” The way Betsy
said the words made Kate’s blood boil. Betsy came in often enough she probably
did know all about her job, but the woman didn’t need to be so condescending.
    Kate forced a smile, for Carter’s benefit, tried to hide her
true feelings, worked at hiding the heartbreak. “Sure, I can show you what to
do.”
    She shot Carter a glance, but he had already started to
focus on some papers in front of him and didn’t even notice her. “But I’d like
to talk to Carter for a minute.” She paused and then just to make sure Betsy
understood. “Alone.”
    Maybe she should just jump on the first boat out of
here. Kate was putting her life, her decisions in the hands of a man she barely
knew because of some silly little feelings she had for him. She needed to be
sensible, needed to think for herself.
    But she