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Chapter Forty-Two
Utah
She hadn’t been back at her desk for more than five minutes when her phone buzzed with a text. She snorted in disbelief at what she read.
Liam: I think you have some explaining to do, little one.
She shoved her phone into her desk without responding.
I have some explaining to do?
Fuck him. I’m not the one who said I was too busy for lunch then showed up in the cafeteria with a hot doctor.
Twenty minutes later, she could hear it buzzing again. Instead of opening her messages and replying, she powered her phone off.
Utah was supposed to help Parker with a problem he was having with his computer. She was worried it might be the latest virus circulating in the cyberworld and had tried reading the research she’d gathered before lunch, but she’d reread the same paragraph five times.
Ten minutes later, the phone on her desk rang, making her jump. No one had called her on it before. She knew damn well who it was before even answering.
“Hello?”
Not expecting the female’s voice that greeted her, she was thrown off-kilter.
“Ms. Douglas?”
“Yes?”
“Please hold for Liam McDonnell.”
That asshole couldn’t even be bothered to call me himself? He had Kathy call me?
After a few clicks and some silence, Liam’s deep voice came on the line.
“Ms. Douglas. I’m in need of your assistance in my office. Now.”
Fuck. You.
“I’m sorry, Mr. McDonnell,” her sickeningly sweet voice dripped with sarcasm. “I was just on my way to Dr. Preston’s office. Perhaps one of my colleagues can help you. Or better yet, maybe there’s a doctor who can offer you assistance.”
“Little bee…”
His tone was ominous, but she didn’t care, and she snapped in response, “What?”
“Don’t make me tell you twice, Utah.”
That was the second time he’d used her name lately. The first time it’d been weird, this time she just flat out didn’t like it.
“Or what?”
“Oh, little girl… you’re going to find out. You’ve been pushing my buttons since yesterday. Come to my office, now. This is the last time I’m going to tell you.”
Instead of responding, she hung up on him. And just like when she finished her hack of the hospital, she instantly regretted it.
I should go to his office like he said.
Then she pictured him with his hand at the small of the beautiful doctor’s back as he led her through the line and paid for the woman’s food while Utah had to rely on her colleague to pay for her lunch.
Flashbacks of having to depend on the kindness of strangers just to eat after Eric’s betrayal suddenly hit her. The memories of how hurt she’d felt walking into their apartment in San Francisco to find Eric balls deep in a blonde he had bent over the couch played like a movie reel in her head.
