The Personal Shopper

I try to look past Shana to the article. “Oh no. What did he do this time?”

“Rumor has it, he was seen kissing 5 different women while he was out Saturday night.”

I just slap my hand over my face. “C’mon Chase. How many times do I have to tell that bastard to keep his manwhoreness out of the public eye.”

The article loads and sure enough they have picture evidence of Chase with all the different women. Apparently, two of the women were even best friends and didn’t know both of them had kissed him until later that night when they found him with yet another different girl.

I blow out a breath. “Well, at least they only caught him kissing these women.” I look over to Shana. “How many girls do you think ended up at his place? Oh god. Hopefully, none of them talk.”

Shana just shakes her head. “The ones who make it to his place don’t usually talk. Rumor is he is very good at satisfying once he actually chooses you. It’s just all the scorn wannabes that cause this trouble for us.”

I just laugh. “Remind me to tell my dad no more hiring womanizing super hot sales dudes.”

Parker walks into the office just then. “What’s this about a super hot sales dude?”

I blow out a breath. “Someone we are probably going to be spending a lot of time with over the next week.”

Shana gets a call and walks out of my office to answer it.

Parker leans in close to me. “We or you?”

I smirk at him. “I guess it depends on how much you let me buy. Why? You jealous?”

Parker glances over my shoulder to the article on the screen. “I’ll let you buy whatever you want as long as you are never alone with Chase fucking Daniels.”

I smile and lean back in my chair. “I take it you know him?”

Parker grunts. “Unfortunately, I’ve had the luxury of being in the same room as Chase a few times.”

I sigh again. “Yeah, he’s one of the few repeat offenders we have in this department.”

Parker looks at me and narrows his eyes. “So you’ve worked together before?”

I sigh again. “Well, I don’t want to admit it now since he is once again back in the doghouse. That can’t be good for my resume.”

Parker gives me a small smile. “Well, he still works here, so you obviously did a good enough job to make it blow over.”

“Yeah, we need to get ahead of this.” I dial my receptionist number. “Hey Dela, can you get Chase Daniels in for an appointment this afternoon? He’ll know what it is about.”

I look back up at Parker. “Can you get me the numbers on what we have left we can allocate to charity this month? I’m going to call up as many of the heartwarming places I can find, starting with the local dog shelter. Once we get a few pictures of Chase with some of those pups, all the women will forget about his slutty ways.” I think for a moment. “Do you think it would be too much to pose him shirtless?”

Parker just glares at me. I throw up my hands. “Okay. Okay. You’re right. But we are going to need to think through his outfit. Can you come with me to lunch to pick something out for him?”

Parker smiles back at me. “Does that count as a date?”

I roll my eyes back at him. “No. This is a work meeting. No cheating.”

He just groans, then looks me over. “Why do you have to be wearing these little tight skirts all the time? You’re driving me crazy.”

“Good. You’re the one who set these tortuous rules.”

He just laughs. “I guess you’re right, but I didn’t know you were going to make it this hard.”

I smile back. “I’m not doing anything.” I flip my hair over my shoulder. “I’m just naturally this sexy.”

Parker laughs even harder at that. My phone dings. “Hey Dela ,we all set?”

“Yes, he confirmed for 2 o’clock.” She says through the phone.