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“Yes. I have soy.”
“She’ll have a soy cappuccino.”
Isabel walks into the conference room as the barista is making Scarlett’s drink. The look on her face suggests she already knows who owns the stuff strewn beside me. Scarlett must not have gone far to wrap up her phone conversation. There’s only one hallway that leads down here.
Scarlett reappears a couple of minutes later, capturing the attention of the room once more.
“Did he cry?” I mutter sarcastically as she sits down beside me.
“Nope. But he did discount his fabric to half cost when I was willing to pay double.”
“How exciting,” I drone.
“What’s this?” She’s looking at the cappuccino.
“What you think it is.”
“You got me a coffee?”
“There’s a cart,” I reply, excruciatingly aware of how everyone in a ten-seat radius is listening to this conversation.
“I can’t drink this.”
I sigh. “It’s soy, okay?”
Her eyes burn into me as I continue to pretend to look at papers. In reality, the numbers are blurring together.
“You think dairy substitutes are ludicrous.”
“They are. I just didn’t feel like listening to you complain about how you can’t drink dairy, despite the fact you’re not lactose intolerant.”
“The way I had to listen to you complain about the missing carton of two percent?”
I close the folder. “It’s notmissingif you threw it out.”
“I relocated it.”
“Into the trash.”
“You don’t even take coffee to work in the mornings.Ido.”
“There’s more oat milk in our fridge than ten people could drink in a month. But myonecarton—”
“There were three,” Scarlett interjects.
Asher laughs. He tries to hide it in a cough, but it’s too late.
Scarlett glances past me. “Hi, Asher.”
“Scarlett. Pleasure, as always. I haven’t enjoyed a board meeting this much…ever.”
“It won’t be a regular occurrence. I’ve got plenty of work already. But I’m anoverachiever, so…”
I grit my teeth as she delivers that little dig.
“I saw the announcement aboutrouge. Congrats.”
“Thanks, Asher.” Scarlett sounds genuine.
