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He stayed in the doorway of her office, just moving back to let her return.
“Thanks,” he said.
“You could have left it with Kayla out front,” she said.
“I could have,” he said. “But then I wouldn’t have been able to come back and see if we still had our truce going or not.”
She squinted one eye at him. No snarky comment, which was a plus. She’d been acting...normal.
“I wouldn’t go back on my word,” she said. “There is no reason to be at odds. It might start to draw suspicion.”
“I’m pretty sure everyone knows how you feel about me,” he said.
She smirked at him. “They see what I want them to see.”
Which told him everyone did know that they mixed like oil and water. But he wondered if under it all they could mix more like water and soap. Coming together and foaming up, making something slippery on contact.
They’d done it once before. He had high hopes that maybe they could again.
Unless he was just a glutton for punishment.
Most likely that.
“You know them best,” he said.
She moved past to sit at her desk. He stayed in the doorway. “Was there something else I could help you with?”
He grinned. “How about lunch?”
“You’re joking, right?”
“Truce? I thought that might be a good first step.”
He was pushing his luck in the worst way possible, but he didn’t know when he’d have an opportunity to talk to her again with no one around.
Not that they were alone. He heard other voices in the office, but he was talking quietly.
He saw she wanted to snarl but then caught herself. “There are a bunch of food trucks around the corner.”
So not a sit-down type of lunch, but at least he was getting her out of the building.
It was cold out, but not windy. They were tough enough to eat their lunch outside.
“Sounds perfect to me,” he said. “And it’s almost noon.”
She stood up again, his eyes looking over her body while she grabbed her purse and jacket. She couldn’t see what he was doing.
He remembered a girl with large breasts, but it didn’t seem it now. He wondered if she got a reduction or if his mind was exaggerating things in his youth. Probably the second.
“We can meet there,” she said.
He figured there would be no way she’d ride with him, but it was worth a shot.
He followed her out the door. She didn’t even say where she was going to Kayla, but it’s not like he did when he left his office either. Everyone knew how to reach him if they needed something.
They pulled up to the lot where the food trucks were lined up.
“What do you want?” he asked.
