Trust in Me by Samantha Chase Page A

he’d managed to exclude Maggie from them under the guise of needing
     her to prepare contracts and reports that were vital to their project.
    Well, he laughed at himself mirthlessly, they weren’t vital to the project quite as
     much as they were vital to helping him keep his distance.  And his sanity.  Maggie
     never argued and actually seemed relieved to not have to traipse along with him everywhere
     he went and while Jason knew deep down that he should have taken his father’s advice
     and actually talk to Maggie, he just couldn’t bring himself to do it.
    Five more days.
    It might as well be a damn lifetime. 
    Turning from his view from the top floor of the Loews Atlanta, Jason took a look around
     the room.  It was beautiful; it was luxurious.  It was far too big for a man alone. 
     The king size bed only emphasized that he was sleeping alone and he didn’t like it. 
     If he really wanted to, there was no doubt that Jason could go out and find company
     for the evening.
    But he didn’t want company, he wanted Maggie.
    Dammit.
    The bedside clock showed it was nearing midnight and Jason was too keyed up to sleep. 
     He couldn’t wait to get back to Charlotte; back to his own home and his own bed and
     his own life.  Maybe once he was back in his own surroundings this obsession would
     end.  Maybe once they were back to working in the office and not spending so much
     time with only one another for company, Jason would be free to pick up the phone and
     call a woman for a date without wishing she were someone else.
    Maybe he would lose his mind before they ever got home.
    Five more days.
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    Maggie was miserable.  While Jason was doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing
     – being her boss – she missed their companionable camaraderie that they had shared
     early on in the trip.  She kicked herself daily for letting her guard down and actually
     letting herself have feelings for him.
    In her own defense, Jason Montgomery was an incredible man.  He was kind and funny
     and intelligent and the type of man who really took an interest in you when he wanted
     to.  And for a couple of days there, he seemed to really want to know Maggie.
    Then he didn’t.
    She was certain that it was her own fault.  After all, here she was a supposed married
     woman who couldn’t seem to stop herself from throwing herself at him.  She was the
     exact thing Jason had been trying to avoid on this trip.  It was no wonder he barely
     looked at her.  He was probably trying to think of ways to send her home and possibly
     move her back to the customer service department. 
    That thought was more than a little depressing and Maggie let out a sigh.  It was
     late and she was sitting alone in her hotel room curled up in a chair.  Not that long
     ago if anyone would have told her that she’d be staying in a luxury hotel and working
     as an executive assistant for an attractive man she would have snorted with disbelief. 
     Add to that the fact that she was the one attracted to the boss and not the other
     way around would have been another fact she would have found hard to believe.  And
     yet here she was.
    They had less than a week left on the trip.  Three days in Atlanta and two in Miami and then it was back home.  What would happen then?  She couldn’t imagine that Jason
     would fire her immediately.  No, they still had a lot of work to do on this expansion
     project once they were back at Montgomery ’s.  But once the project was wrapped up and it was back to business as usual, then
     what?  Could she go to his father and request a transfer back to her old position? 
    Maggie stood and walked over to her mini fridge and pulled out a bottle of water and
     took a long drink.  She didn’t want to go back to her old life; not really.  The woman
     that she had been before this trip was a scared woman; a shell of a person.  She wasn’t
     living.  She’d had no friends.  These last weeks with Jason