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Royce sat down and he got to work. Richard didn’t get much of a reaction out of that statement. Maybe his son really was a lost cause.
17
Light And Fun
“Why do you seem so down today?” Chloe asked Megan when she saw her at the coffee machine on Tuesday morning.
She needed the extra dose to get through the day.
Sunday night she’d slept like a baby between the little sleep the night before and the calories she’d burned with Royce.
There was no way she thought she’d spend the whole day with him on Sunday and even had a great time doing it.
They cooked and talked and watched football.
The two of them had more fun than she thought they’d have together.
When this idea first came into her head it was more for a sexual release so she didn’t have to worry about how to spend time with a man. One that might not like the same things as her.
She was finding she and Royce did have a lot in common though.
Megan looked around and then said quietly, “In your office.”
“Sounds serious,” she said and got her coffee with Megan and then moved to her office. “What’s going on?”
“I just got done talking to Raina and I’m still down. Jonah and I got into a fight on New Year’s Eve and I haven’t talked to him since.”
“Oh no,” she said. “I noticed there was some tension between you two. Did something happen at the party?”
She was so busy trying to keep her own ruse up that she didn’t notice that maybe one of her friends needed her.
“Not really. Or it was stupid. You know how I asked Grant and Garrett for help with Jonah, right? More like advice and not really help and that was just early on. I mean Jonah and I were already tiptoeing around each other on our own.”
“Yep,” she said. “I know all about it. I still think it was ballsy to ask them, but it worked.”
“It was working,” Megan said. “Jonah even knew the Fierces were trying to set us up and that his own mother was part of it.”
“Really?” she asked. “I hadn’t heard that part. So what is the problem?”
“On Saturday night, Grant slipped and said how I got help from them. I don’t think it was help as much as they gave me suggestions. Some I took and some I didn’t.”
“And Jonah didn’t know?” she asked.
“No. It wasn’t that big of a deal.”
“Like what suggestions?” she asked.
“Early on I was ready to give up getting his attention and they said I should try steering the bull in another direction.”
“Sounds innocent enough,” she said.
“So I went to his gym to work out knowing he’d probably see me. It’s not like they said to do that.”
“As I said, innocent enough. I’m surprised Jonah is upset over it. Did you fight?”
“We did. He was upset and felt like I withheld that from him. Then he was doubting my love. Like they somehow control my feelings for him and without their help I wouldn’t have made the move.”
“That’s crazy,” she said.
