Mr. Arrogant: A Billionaire Romance by Alexis Gold Read Free Book Online

open slightly as he gazed at her. That couldn’t be it , he thought. Everyone in the office liked him; or at least, all the women certainly did. He knew he must be misreading her and it bothered him enormously.
    “Sure, that sounds great. Just go ahead and come in tomorrow. We’ll see you then.” And then he thought of something and called out her name. It was the first time he’d said it. “Naomi!” he called out.
    She turned and glanced over her shoulder, not really looking right at him, but rather, looking somewhere near him.
    “I just…. wondered…. How was your first day?” he asked in an awkward attempt to make light conversation with her.
    She was not impressed. He was trying to chat with her. She was resolute. She was not going to chat with him like he was a friend, like he was a confidant. Like he was a lover she could share anything with. “It was fine,” she replied shortly. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” She disappeared, closing the door behind her and as it shut, he stared at the closed door with his mouth hanging slightly agape.
    He knew it then. She didn’t like him. He was dumbfounded. He wondered how in the world she could not like him before she had ever met him and didn’t know him. It was her first time meeting him on her first day and she didn’t like him. He hadn’t even had time to offend her yet. It was completely astounding to him.
    The result of it was that he could not manage to get her off his mind for the remainder of the night. Thoughts of her kept creeping into his mind. Thoughts of the way she had been short with him without actually being rude, and the way she had been not quite disdainful, but more indifferent with him.
    She was not impressed at all with his looks or his title or his money, or power, or even with the fact that he was her boss. Nothing about him seemed to hold any significance for her and it was a totally foreign experience for him. He’d never been treated with indifference before in his life.
    He made up his mind that he would pour on a little more charm on the next day. The same charm that he used with the other ladies in the office, except he would really play it up and then she would like him; that woman with the full lips and the dark skin and the blue eyes, that woman in a pinstripe suit and skirt with the long shapely legs. She would like him. He wouldn’t quit until she did. Just like all the rest.
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    Naomi went home a little nerve wracked but happy. She had been hired at the job that she wanted and she had made it through her first day there, despite the fact that she had been hired to be Jonathon Cross’s administrative assistant. She could not wrap her mind around it in the least and the more she thought of it, the more she thought of him, and the more annoyed she grew.
    She couldn’t believe she had given him a double take when he walked into the room. He didn’t deserve that. Sure, he was handsome. One of the most handsome men she had ever seen, but that meant nothing to her. She was all about business, and he wasn’t, and she was going to make it clear to him that it was going to be strictly business and nothing else between them, whatsoever.
    She made up her mind that she was going to show him just how a professional woman acted in an office, and she wasn’t going to put up with any of his advances or flirts or even his beautiful looks and soft voice. There would be only business between them. She would make certain of that.
    Naomi went to bed enormously bothered and irritated, and had a fitful sleep that night; tossing and turning, dreaming and arguing and fighting in her dream. She awoke in the morning and told herself that she was going to be calling the shots between the two of them.
    She was at her desk when he strolled into the office the next day, and he was surprised at her punctuality. She was already working when he walked up to her desk to tell her good morning.
    He wore a button down shirt the same color as his deep emerald