Your Commander, Phillip Graves, the operator of Shadows Company. Not to mention he’s hot. And that you like him.

You’re in his office—for the hundredth time—trying to convince him there’d be no harm in dating, test things out.

Phillip leans his hands onto the desk, shaking his head. “I’m nearly two decades older than you, darlin’. You’re too fine a woman to want to be with an old man like me.”