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Rochelle knocks on the door a moment later and sets a file down in front of me, still not meeting my eyes.
I open the file and stop her before she leaves. “Rochelle, why is this table not organized by department?”
“It’s not?” She flies back to my side and peers down at the document. Then her face turns thunderous. “I told her to follow my template.”
“Told who? Didn’t you organize this file?”
“No. I asked our new intern to do it.”
“We have a new intern in HR?”
“Didn’t you know about it?”
“No.”
“Knock, knock.” Adam’s voice cuts through my interrogation.
At the sight of him, my heart starts beating double-time. Does he have a right to look so good with his hair all tousled and his big, muscular arms on display in that too-small T-shirt? And is it my imagination or does he flex his arms a little when he walks in?
I’m going to hyperventilate just watching him.
“What are you doing here?”
“I just dropped Rowan off at art camp.” He glances between me and Rochelle. “Am I interrupting a meeting?”
“Rochelle was just about to tell me about our new intern.” I spear him with a pointed look.
At once, his confident smile turns into a worried frown.
“Like I was saying, I thought you knew about it,” Rochelle tells me.
“Why would I?”
“Rochelle, let me handle this,” Adam says, his voice trembling.
“Handle what?” I frown. It feels like the proverbial boot is about to drop on my head and I just want to get it over with.
“Rochelle,” Adam insists.
“Rochelle,” I fasten my gaze on her, “youtell me.”
“Uh…” Rochelle looks like she’s seconds away from peeing her pants. “Uh…”
“Spit it out, Rochelle,” I insist.
“The new intern is your sister!” Rochelle blurts.
Adam cringes.
I stiffen, trying and failing to compute those words. No matter how much I turn them over in my mind, they still don’t make sense.
I flatten my hands on the table and wheeze, “What?”
Adam makes a choking sound.
I turn my head slowly and shoot daggers at him from my eyes.
He. Did.Not.
