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Lauren shoots me a weird look. “Yeah,” she replies, dragging the word out slowly. “You?”
I flash her a smile. “Great, thanks,” I say before turning to Jack who has just walked in the room. “Jack,” I greet with a nod.
“BB,” he shoots back with a grin.
I stop, turning to look at him. “What did you say?”
Jack’s grin widens. “BB, you know, short for blue—”
I hold a hand up to stop him. “Got it. Thanks. No need for that though.”
“Ohhhh,” Jack says, his eyes widening. “So, the app worked, huh? And you got yourself some—”
“I’m going now,” I say, cutting him off as I walk out of the office, having no desire to discuss my sex life or lack thereof with either of my bosses. The last thing I need is those two on my case about it.
As I head down the corridor toward the tasting room, I spy Penny coming toward me, her head down, her eyes on her phone as she walks. I move to the side to let her pass, but for some weird reason, she does the same and before I can get out of the way, she slams straight into me, knocking my coffee and her phone to the floor.
“Shit!” she practically yells as she crouches down, scrambling for her phone.
“You okay?” I ask, reaching for her elbow and helping her up.
Her cheeks are a little flushed and when she looks up at me, I watch as it darkens, making my pulse thud. But when she pulls her bottom lip between her teeth, it sends a spike of lust straight to my dick.
She’s your co-worker, you idiot, calm down.
“Sorry,” she says, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. “Wasn’t watching where I was going.”
“Clearly,” I tease, raising a brow at her. “Something interesting on there?” I add, lifting my chin toward the phone in her hand.
Penny swallows hard as that blush now spreads, moving down her neck and across her chest, which is barely hidden by the low-cut Somerville Winery t-shirt she wears. Something about the contrast between her flushed skin and the stark whiteness of her shirt has me practically salivating.
She’s also ten years younger than you, remember?
God, I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me. It’s like a tiny bit of flirting via a stupid dating app that I didn’t even download, let alone want to use, and suddenly I’m a fucking mess, thinking and saying all sorts of stupid things.
“Umm, yeah, something like that,” she mumbles, sliding her phone into her back pocket as though she doesn’t want me to see whatever it was she was looking at.
“It wasn’t p—”
“Penny?” Lauren’s voice cuts off my question, which is a good thing, because I have absolutely no business asking it.
“Yeah, coming,” she calls back, her voice husky and low, the words actually making me groan as she brushes past me and disappears into Lauren’s office.
Taking a deep breath, I walk away from whatever the fuck that was and outside toward the work sheds and all the jobs I have to do, mentally reminding myself that Penny is not only completely off-limits, but also someone I am most definitelynotinterested in.
“Focus on your mystery match, you idiot,” I mumble to myself as I realize my coffee mug is still lying on the floor outside Lauren’s office. “And get your mind off your co-worker.”
Chapter Five
Penny
That was probably the strangest interaction I’ve ever had with Tommy and I’m still watching him from Lauren’s office, totally distracted. I haven’t heard a word she’s said which is so incredibly rude of me.
“I’m sorry,” I say, diverting my eyes from the window and my attention back to Lauren, who is my boss and should probably be chastising me for ignoring her. But in true Lauren form, she just laughs, shaking her head.
“You know, he’s single,” she says, her eyebrows going up as she basically sings the last part of her sentence.
“Really? I don’t think you’ve ever mentioned that,” I respond, faking my reaction with a bit of sarcasm. “And anyway, I joined that dating app Jack suggested,” I sheepishly admit, biting down on my bottom lip to try to hide my embarrassment.
