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Her head jerked on her neck. A quiet voice warned him not to keep talking. He ignored it.
“If your friend had lived his life to the fullest, he’d have kissed you long and hard, before you knew what was happening. And then you would have told him no and broken his heart. And then—” Bran sighed, hating hurting her. Hating watching that tear tumble out of her eye and knowing there was no way to undo this horrible situation. “You would’ve had to give him a similar speech to the one I’m giving you now.
“You mean a lot to me, Ad. We work together well here and we are incredible at home—at either of our homes. You’re not convenient. You’re not a pastime. I still want you. Just not like this.”
She shook off his hold, grabbed the watch off his desk and dropped it into his mug of coffee with a bloop.
“Fuck you,” she added before rushing out of his office.
Shocked and incensed, he grabbed the coffee mug and followed her. “What did you expect? What?”
Her eyes darted around behind him but he didn’t care who was overhearing him.
“For us to get married and live happily-ever-after?”
“What was your plan? For us to have sex and keep our hearts out of it?” she countered.
“I don’t want a plan.”
She lifted her chin with determination. “No problem. I won’t be here to make any plans for you or with you. I quit.”
She lifted her laptop and dropped it unceremoniously into the trash can next to her desk, then pulled her purse over her shoulder.
“Have fun running ThomKnox without a plan!” she shouted as she stormed by him.
He let her go, growling under his breath and not sure who he was more pissed off with—himself or Addison. Or maybe he could blame Joe. That’d been a good move.
“Dammit, Addi.”
He fished his watch from the coffee and dried it off with his tie. It was waterproof. She should have known that. She should’ve known a lot of things, but she didn’t. He’d talked her out of practical, and apparently had fully won her over to his way of thinking.
Because she was in love with him.
But he wasn’t denying who he was or what he wanted—not again. He’d followed someone else’s dreams before and where had that gotten him?
This was Addi’s dream. She wanted him more than anything, or had before he’d turned her down. He was honored. He was floored. But he couldn’t say yes, even though saying no meant incinerating the best relationship of his life.
He took one last long look at the engraving on his watch before dropping it into the wastebasket on top of Addison’s laptop computer.
If she didn’t understand why he’d said no, or appreciate his honesty, then they were better off apart.
