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“How are you?” I asked, smiling hopefully in a friendly, but not too friendly, kind of way.
“I’m great,” Jumper beamed. “I saw that you were here, and thought I’d come say hi, and thank you for the donation to my charity.”
A couple months ago, she’d shared a charity that meant a lot to her. Seeing that I had the money to spare, I’d donated a large amount, and had gotten a tax break on it.
But the way she was smiling at me right now, she might’ve read more into it than she should have.
She stepped back and twisted a lock of hair around her finger as she stared at me.
That’s when I noticed the blonde chick with a mop wearing the ‘staff’ polo cleaning up a spill.
“Whoa, what happened?” I asked, just now noticing that Blue was gone, and everyone at the table was now glaring at me, even Banner and Slone.
“Jumper knocked over the drink you bought for Blue, right into her lap, and she left,” Tempy drawled.
I nearly groaned.
“Shit,” I said. “Where’d she go?”
I was already looking around for her.
“Likely home,” Banner murmured right before he took a sip of his drink.
I felt my stomach clench.
God, I sure the fuck hoped not.
Feeling stupid for letting her get away already, I said, “See you later, Jumper. Gotta go find Blue.”
Jumper looked shocked as I disappeared.
I also didn’t miss the way Tempy and Rebel were glaring at me.
Groaning to myself, I started toward the first bathroom I got to, then began to lean against the wall and wait.
It took her ten minutes to come out, and the dejected look on her face had my heart clenching.
“Of all the luck,” she was grumbling as she held the dress away from her body as best as she could. Which, admittedly, wasn’t much.
“I’m sorry,” I said to her the moment she was close enough.
She snapped her head up and stared at me with wide eyes. “What? Why?”
And the fact that she wasn’t mad at me made me feel even freakin’ worse.
I gestured toward her dress as I said, “That was my fault.”
“It’s not your fault, Jumper hit the drink with her ass,” she grumbled, face closing down, becoming unreadable. “Sadly, I have to go home and change this. I’m freakin’ freezing now, and the blower in the bathroom only blows cold air.”
I was already shaking my head. “You can’t leave yet!”
My blurted answer had her eyes going wide as she said, “I’ll come back.”
Before I could control myself, I said, “I’ll come with you.”
