Chapter 10

Lila paced the bedroom that had been assigned to her just down the hall from Jasper’s suite.  She’d inwardly questioned why she wasn’t simply given one of the smaller rooms within his suite but said nothing.  She’d had a secret crush on the handsome scientist ever since she joined him as an intern five years earlier.  She’d hoped that, after her internship ended and she was placed on the payroll as his assistant that things between them might advance.  Sadly, he seemed to have no interest in her other than for the contributions to his research that she was able to provide.

Although she was living in an age of freedom of expression and had the fact that she was a good-looking woman proven to her over and over again by the advances from men who she met during the menial hours away from work that were afforded to her, she’d decided to save herself for “Mr. Right”.   Every fiber of her being told her th