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“Understood,” I replied.
Her eyes narrowed a bit. “Do you have a girlfriend?”
My brows shot up. “Does the answer have any bearing on whether I get the job or not?”
“No,” she answered. “I’m just curious because I can see a lot of girls needing help with the computers all of a sudden.”
Though flattering, I wasn’t interested in other girls. “There’s someone,” I semi-lied. “All of your female customers are safe from me.”
“But areyousafe from them?” she snorted.
“If I have to slip on a wedding ring, so that no one else gets any ideas, I will,” I told her truthfully, this thing with Alexandria becoming very serious, very quickly.
Jersey’s head tilted a bit. “I like you, Hunter Finley.”
“Does that mean that I’m hired?” I asked. “No offense, but I need a job more than I need you to like my charming personality.”
She laughed, and even her laugh was pretty. Still, no matter how stunning Jersey Montague was, she wasn’t doing anything for me. My dick only twitched for stubborn brunettes with white eyes, a bangin’ fucking body, and the face of an angel.
“You’re hired, Hunter Finley,” she announced. “While I’m more than willing and capable of working around your class schedule, I am asking that you show up here tomorrow evening for an orientation. I like to show my new employees around when there’s no one here to distract me from laying out my expectations. The other two new hires have already assured me that they can make it.”
“Yeah, I’ll be here,” I told her. This job paid enough that I wouldn’t need more than two jobs right now, so there was no way that I wasn’t going to show up tomorrow evening.
“Good,” she said, standing up as she reached out to shake my hand.
Taking it in mine, I said, “Thank you for this opportunity.”
Jersey planted her hands on her hips after shaking my hand. “Just don’t be a dick, Hunter,” she said, making me chuckle. “Come to work when you’re supposed to, do a good job, and don’t be an asshole to anyone. That’s all I ask.”
“I’ll do my best to manage,” I quipped, causing her to throw me a wink.
As soon as I left The Tomes, I fired off a text to Lars, Talon, and my parents, letting them know that I finally had a job. Yeah, I wasn’t going to have time for much else now, but like I’d said before, life was about practicality. I was also going to have to talk to Alexandria tonight. We needed to talk about what happened, and we needed to do it before my schedule took up most of my time.
After all, while I might need a job, I still wanted Alexandria.
Chapter 12
The regret that shuts us down.
Hunter~
Iwas doing my best to calm the fuck down, but I wasn’t sure that it was working. Alexandria was avoiding me, and while I might deserve it, that logic didn’t help me much. I didn’t appreciate how she wasn’t giving me a chance to apologize or even see for myself that she was okay. Sure, she had finally texted back that she was fine last night, but how did I fucking know that?
Nevertheless, as much as I’d searched for her today on campus, I hadn’t been able to find her, so I had to wait to demand an explanation for her disappearing act. Before leaving my interview yesterday, Jersey had informed me that we were going to get our weekly schedules tonight during our orientation, so I was going to need to find a time in between classes and work to drag Alexandria aside and demand that she let me apologize. That’s where I was at right now with the fucking girl, and if she didn’t want me getting us both kicked out of school for breaking into her dorm room, then she better quit avoiding me.
Annoyed as fuck with Alexandria’s stubbornness, I did my best to snap out of it as I parked my car in the back of The Tomes. I needed to get my shit together if I didn’t want to lose my job before it even started. Jersey had made it clear that she and her business were all about customer service, so I could hardly go around snapping at people because Alexandria Grant might be rightfully hating me right now.
Walking around towards the front of the building, I saw that the store was already locked up for the evening, so I had to knock on the glass to get in. Luckily, since Jersey had been expecting me, I hadn’t had to wait long before her smiling face was opening the door for me.
“There he is,” she greeted.
“No way am I late,” I greeted back.
Jersey just kept smiling. “You’re not. However, the rest of your team got here extra early.”
Great.
“Well, I’m here now,” I stated like an idiot.
