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“Doesn’t sound like it.”
“Nothing I can’t handle.” She straightened her shoulders and quickened her step.
I caught her by the arm. “If you need more time to get settled and take care of—”
“We’re good.” She leveled me with a gaze most people wouldn’t dare to.
I knew a lie when I saw one, because I’d been telling them to myself for months. Typical me, I couldn’t let it go. “This have anything to do with Gabriel’s father?”
She recoiled. “No. Absolutely not.” Her voice took on a harsh edge. So that much was true.
I nodded once. “I’d better head out once I say bye to Gabriel.”
She checked her watch. “You’ll be late if you don’t.” As if she’d flipped a switch, Holly was back to her normal self. “I’ll look over those reports you emailed me tonight to see if I can find any discrepancies.”
“I need another set of eyes on it. If that money came from the exploration division, I want to know how it happened,” I said, growing irritated all over again at the situation with Carter Energy.
“We’ll figure it out,” Holly said with certainty.
“I damn sure hope so.”
* * *
“Why the hellare there two desks in here?”
I blasted past Easton into the office that was larger than average but nowhere near big enough for the two pieces of furniture. They were positioned so the occupants would be face to face. Who could work like that?
“Because we’re sharing an office.” He shut the door, and I spun around. “With all this shuffling, there aren’t any empty ones. I told them we’d be fine in the same one.”
“You did what?” I planted my hands on my hips. “And who is ‘them’?”
“You know.Them.” He waved his hand back toward the rest of the office floor as if that explained everything.
“I want to talk tothem. We are not sharing an office.”
“I’m sure it’s temporary. Have you seen the slate of meetings? We won’t be in here much anyway.” Easton seemed far too calm about this situation.
“I am not stupid.” I pointed at him. “I know you finagled my sister-in-law into letting you stay with them. All the doors to their spare rooms are locked. Remodeling, my ass.”
“I did no such thing.”
“You don’t find it the least bit coincidental that we’re stuck sleeping in the same space and now we’re stuck working in the same space?” I demanded.
He shoved his hands in his pockets. “Not particularly.”
His nonchalance was maddening. “Where is Holly going to fit?”
“She got her own office just down the hall.” I was going to strangle him. That’s all there was to it. He leaned against the door. “I’m kidding, Heartbreaker. We’ll have to figure it out when she gets here.”
I tapped my foot. There had to be a way out of this. I wasn’t built to withstand twenty-four hours a day with Easton Carter. He’d whittle my resolve until the only thing I could do was say yes to whatever he wanted.
“I get the desk facing the window.” I tossed my stuff on it.
His heat was immediately at my back. “Suits me.” Then he moved to his chair.
I settled into my seat and froze when I looked up. My pick was a mistake. Easton, the image of power and framed by the New York City skyline, was too much. No work would take place as long as that was my view.
Like an immature little girl, I bolted. “I, uh, forgot a pen. I’m going to see if I can find one.”
