"She had come to learn that ‘you need to relax’, when not associated to explicit threats of calling Carson, was his designated euphemism for ‘I really want to spend some time with you’, and it never failed to make her smile as if he had really voiced the latter phrase."

This part had me smiling because it reminded me so much of The Princess Bride, "as you wish."

Thanks for giving us more...HR happily waits for future chapters!