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“You know, you can come sit with me. Standing there make me seem scary.”
He did not move a muscle.
“Julian must have said things to you. He can be an ass sometimes. I know you know him better than I do. I don’t bite though.”
He turned and looked at me with a smile playing on his lips.
“You know, you can join me. There are enough pastries here for the both of us.”
Drummer cleared his throat, “I’m doing my job.”
“Okay. I know you’re mad about the phone. I’ll have Julian buy you a new one. Here,” I reached out my hand toward the doorway. “You can use mine for now if you’d like. I’ll tell him whatever story you want me to.”
A laugh escaped his lips.
“What?” I narrowed my eyes, as I bit into a cream filled doughnut. “You think I can’t scare you? I trained with the best of the best. I am a walking machine, a live weapon.”
He crossed his arms over his chest.
I jumped to my feet and walked over to him.
“Jab,” I told him. “Come on, throw a punch.”
“My job is to protect you,” he returned.
“I am not a broken, weak woman. I’m a fighter. Come on, throw a punch and let me show you.”
“I’m sorry ma’am, I can’t.”
I narrowed my eyes and huffed.
“You are no fun at all,” I turned to go back to my seat.
As I was just about to flop into the chair, I heard my name.
“Gia?”
I looked over my shoulder and recognized the woman I had seen at Julian’s house. She wore a navy pant suit and her dark hair sat just above her shoulders.
“I am Marissa Brighton. We met briefly, sorry I wasn’t able to introduce myself because I left in a hurry…you know, work.”
I reminded myself that my goal was to be light and cheery not snarky.
“Let me guess, you are here to see Jul?”
“Jul?”
“Sorry, I call him Jul. You know how love birds do.”
I chocked but quickly recovered.
“Love birds?”
“He’s in a meeting for a little while longer. How about I take you to lunch? We can chat and get to know each other,” she smiled brightly.
“Lunch?”
I was so confused by this entire exchange.
