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Yes. I was realising that such a thing was true.
“Well, if you aren’t going to sit here and have a reasonable conversation, then please excuse me. Sir.” I pulled my bag over to me and took out my laptop. “I’ll work here for the afternoon. I think it’s best if we work separately today, so let me know if you need me.”
He stared at me for a moment before he pushed back his chair and got to his feet. “All right. Then I’m going to take my lunch. I’ll be back in a bit.”
He was going out? That was unusual. “I can go and pick your lunch up if you tell me what you’d like.”
“No.” He grabbed his jacket from where he’d tossed it on the back of his chair and shrugged it on. “You have far too many emails to answer to do something as menial as fetch me some food.”
Wow.
Wait.
Was he put out that I hadn’t realised that Lennon was interested in me? Or was he bothered about the fact Lennon had actually asked me out?
“What an excellent point,” I said brightly, logging into my email. “Please take a moment to remove the stick from your backside before you return, sir.”
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that, Miss St. James.”
“You may pretend all you like as long as you return in a better mood, Mr Black.”
Theo grunted and stalked out of the dining room, and it was only a minute later that the sound of the front door swinging shut with a hefty bang rang out through the cottage.
I grabbed my phone and darted through the cottage to the little downstairs toilet room. I poked my head out of the small window that overlooked the driveway just in time to see Theo pulling out onto the road before turning right and disappearing behind the hedge.
And immediately dialled Heidi’s number.
“Is this Chloe St. James? Calling me during working hours? Are you ill? Is there an emergency?” she answered. “Are the gods descending from the heavens to punish humankind?”
“Shut up,” I replied, closing the bathroom window and walking back through to the dining room. “Can you hear me all right?”
“Yeah, it’s fine. What’s wrong for you to be calling me right now?”
“I need your help,” I said, standing in front of the window that overlooked the back garden. “With Theo.”
“Oh, you’re calling himTheo. How cosy of you,” she said, laughing. “What happened?”
“The assistant manager at the store asked me out this morning.”
“Ha! Shit, sorry. I probably wasn’t supposed to laugh at that.” She coughed. “I bet that went down well with your boss.”
“If it did, I wouldn’t be calling you, would I?” I rolled my eyes and leant against the wall. “He basically dragged me out of there, sat me down for an impromptu performance evaluation over my observation skills, and has just marched out of here on his lunch with a stick so far up his arse it’s impaling his brain and killing his cognitive reasoning skills.”
“Okay. One thing at a time. Did you turn down the coworker?”
“Yes, and cleanly. No room for misunderstanding,” I said. “He even heard the whole thing.”
“I’m guessing he noticed this guy had feelings for you and you denied it.”
“How did you know that?”
“Not much is denser than you, Chlo.” Heidi snorted. “Did you have an argument?”
Did we?
“I wouldn’t call it an argument,” I said slowly.
“So, you definitely exchanged some words.”
