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“I will. Bye, Graham.”
“Bye.”
I hang up and plant my back to the wall to remain standing.
Never mind what we just did.
What did I just do?
I let a superior undress me.
I let him put his hands on me.
I could have stopped it, but I didn’t.
I wouldn’t.
I couldn’t.
Because I wanted it.
Every second I’m with Oliver brings back memories. Memories of events that also never should have happened, but they did. I’m stupid to have ever let it get that far before, and now I’m making the same mistakes all over again.
I love this job. I need this job. The last thing I need to be doing is risking everything I have over a few moments of pleasure.
No, I tell myself.
This can’t happen again.
CHAPTER 22
OLIVER
Well, I fucked up.
Paige didn’t return to the train car until five minutes before our destination in Boston. With barely a word spoken, she gathered her things and left to go fetch us a ride to the hotel.
Do I blame her? No.
Does it annoy me? Yes.
But that’s life.
I was fine with the silent treatment... for a while. I deserve it, after all. But after several hours of terse head nods, bobs, and shakes, I feel a little... what’s the word?
Grumpy.
No. That’s not right.
This isn’t about me.
Guilty. That’s the word.
I miss her.
Barely even ten hours of this cold shoulder and I already miss her. I miss the delicate half-smile she wears every time she checks an item off her endless list of to-dos. I miss her laugh and her wit and how she always had an answer to every question, even the stupid ones — though she makes no one feel inferior for asking.
Above all, I miss my friend. I miss the woman I could chat with for hours on end without an ounce of boredom — about romance novels, of all things.
