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My mind flashed back to the time I popped a pimple on his back, and I felt so low for a moment I thought I might faint. “Can I be honest with you?”
“Please.”
“I was doing okay until you showed up, but the mere sight of your face has sent me spiraling into an agony of unmanageable hormones from which I may never recover.”
“Sarcasm.”
“Well spotted.” I glared at him and then dropped my attention to the workflows in front of me.
“Do you still want me on the Primera project?”
“I don’t know,” I said, letting more sass into my tone than I meant to. “Is our breakup going to affect the quality of your work?”
“No.”
“Then keep doing your job, Kurt, and leave me to do mine.”
“Maeve—”
“Stop saying my name like that.”
“Like what?”
“Like I’m ever going to speak to you about something besides work again.”
“It’s like that, is it?”
“It is very much like that, yes.”
“So you’re just my manager now, and that’s that?” he asked. “Aren’t you worried there’s a conflict of interest here?”
I laughed.
“What’s so funny?”
“You didn’t seem to think there was a conflict of interest when we were sleeping together?”
“You know what I mean, Maeve. I just want to make sure you’re not going to sabotage my career like a woman scorned.”
“God, were you this charming when we were together? Maybe I should be depressed that a catch like you slipped through my fingers.”
“You don’t have to be a bitch.”
“Don’t forget your present,” I said, mostly to highlight the fact that of all the things I was, a bitch wasn’t one of them.
He grabbed the garbage bag off my desk. “What is it?”
“Chess lessons and a golf book.”
He blinked at me. “Wow. I didn’t expect you to actually tell me.”
“You might consider working on your communication skills in the new year,” I said. “If you haven’t picked your resolutions yet.”
“I’m sorry things worked out this way.”
“Again, those words don’t make sense in that order, all things considered.”
“I care about you, Maeve. I just want you to be happy.”
