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No need to give Jasper ammunition to use against me if he saw me outright making plans with the mail room worker. Not that I care, but I wasn’t ready to share our friendship and Jasper would no doubt tattle to my mother and then she would swoop in with her “we don’t fraternize with the help” old-school bullshit. Yeah, no thanks.
Jasper gives Warren a look that tells everyone in the room exactly what he thinks of him and Warren stands straight again, looking down at Jasper.
I smirk at the show of male dominance, at the fact that Warren is a good three inches taller than Jasper and nearly twice as broad in the shoulders.
“Have a great day,” Warren tells me and gives me a small, almost secretive smile.
I watch him go with a feeling of deflation, wishing I could talk to him more and hope he uses my number to message me as soon as he can so that we can make lunch plans before I turn back to Jasper.
A.k.a. the man I most definitely do not want to date and wish I could actually melt with my mind.
That’s not considered conspiring to murder, right?
“What can I do for you?” I ask primly, averting my gaze back to my emails and answering some while Jasper watches.
“I thought we could go out soon. Get out in the public a bit.”
I straighten my shoulders and give him a stern look. I like to call it my “CEO” look. “Is this your idea?”
He slouches into one of the chairs in front of my desk. “Of course, it is. I’d love nothing more than to treat you to dinner. Maybe some dancing after, and then, who knows…” His trailing off leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I barely refrain from grimacing.
Damn. I should just be an actress with how much I have to school my face on a daily basis.
“We’ll see,” is my answer and Jasper looks at me like he knows I’m just delaying the inevitable. Maybe I was.
But I had no reason to jump into a relationship with a man I had no feelings for, not when there was one who clearly saw me as something more. Someone to be valued.
“Your mother would be pleased, I’m sure.”
Giving him a sharp look, I say, “I see. So, you’ve already discussed these plans with her. I assume your parents know as well?”
He gives me a small smile and shrugs. “What can I say? I’m a man who knows what he wants.”
Oh, I was so sure.
Chapter Nine
“Call me friend but keep me closer.”
-Billie Eilish
Warren
Her number was burning a hole in my pocket. I quickly pull out the piece of paper the second I am out of her office and put it into my phone. I wasn’t about to risk losing it after I finally had it.
I had dreamed of having it before, of calling her late at night to talk about anything and everything. Texting her random thoughts I’d had throughout the day.
In the last few weeks since we’d met, we’d started a friendship of sorts. She was nice, kind, had an amazing laugh and was damn near the highlight of every workday.
Okay, I wasn’t fooling anyone, least of all myself. Shewasthe highlight.
We hadn’t moved past our easy banter in the office. But she had invited me for lunch, and I sure as shit wasn’t letting this opportunity pass me by.
I head straight to the mail room, my cart nearly empty and in my rush, run straight into Marly, another mail room clerk and knock everything off of her cart. “Fuck,” I whisper as we both crouch down to pick everything up. “Didn’t see you.”
“Fine,” she replies snippily and snatches the mail from my hands. “Watch where you’re going next time.” Seeing that she’s serious, I stand with my hands in the air and back away.
“Sorry.” But now I was even more behind. I try helping her clean up faster, wishing she would stop biting my head off every two seconds and then make my way into the large mail room.
