Working Overtime

By Tracy Burkhart

Lisa is presented with an opportunity to help her colleague with a special project. The close interaction between work friends leads to passion. Encouraged by friends, Lisa is drawn into more than she expects. She experiences intrigue and suspense as she breaks office rules to keep the project secret. With new-found confidence she exhibits the courage to go after true love. Sexy, pretty and smart, can she use all her cleverness to create a happy ending for everyone?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tracy Burkhart
• Release date: Jul 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476079202

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Working Overtime

by Tracy Burkhart

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Copyright 2012 Tracy Burkhart

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This Monday was starting well for Lisa Parker. The nice looking guy was behind the counter at her favorite morning stop, The Hill of Beans coffee shop. A few people between her and the front gave her sufficient cover to watch him without being seen. He was tall, at least a head taller than the young people behind the counter with him. And he had to be a least twice their age. Just a bit scruffy, he looked like he skipped shaving every other morning, and had long hair that was pulled into a ponytail.

He was not the kind of guy that normally would have attracted Lisa. She had been working in the finance office at Consolidated in Columbus, Ohio for twenty some years, straight out of high school. Most days and nights had been filled with dreaming of the sharp dressed young men working in the offices around her cubicle, when she allowed herself that luxury.

After a few minutes Lisa reached the counter and an attractive young woman took her order, a small skim caramel latte. Her badge identified her as Amanda and she was obviously a college student. Lisa was acutely aware of the differences between them. Emma’s thin body and tanned face, hair tucked under a baseball cap, vs. Lisa’s full figure and light complexion from spending the best part of the day in the artificial light of her basement workplace.

Amanda passed her order over to the hunk, and Lisa watched his large hands make her drink, forcing herself to glance around. Even though he was clearly concentrating on the process, she was too shy to be want to be caught staring.

Finished, he handed her the cup. Here’s your usual with a smile. She caught her breath. She didn’t know he had ever noticed her before. She stammered a thank you, and barely returned his wide smile. A killer smile.

In the next moment, the next drink was pushed forward by a young man with a goatee sporting a name badge of Luke. The hunk was off to prepare a mocha and Lisa slowly turned away from the counter, realizing she still didn’t know his name. She had been too flustered to read his nametag.

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Things were also looking up at work as well. Kenneth Smith had stopped by her desk on the way in and said a brief hello. She knew he wasn’t much for small talk, so a ‘how was your day’ and a smile warmed her up inside. Lisa flashed back her best smile and he hung around a minute and asked about her work. She didn’t report to him, he was just another guy in the office, but she, like most of the women there, was happy to discuss anything with him. Average height, trim build and nearing 40 (so the office gossip went) he had a reputation with women outside the office.

Hi, again. Lisa was jolted out of her reverie by the sight of Kenneth standing just outside her cubicle. Twice in one day. Her smile was genuine. I have some new vendor forms for you to add to the system.

Thanks. His job was to approve new vendors, as an internal control. The company didn’t want her to have the ability to add vendors without any oversight, just in case she decided to make up a company. Lisa wasn’t dishonest, and these little checks and balances could be annoying. But, if it gave her a chance to interact with Kenneth, she would deal with it, although it was unusual for him to bring them over personally when he could have just put them into the interoffice mail. She tried to prolong the conversation: Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.