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“Hard rock,” he corrected her. “The good stuff.”
“You can’t dance to hard rock.”
“Oh, I can,” he assured her. “I can dance to anything. I’ve got moves.”
Sloane tipped her chin down and pressed her fingers to the bridge of her nose.
“But you’ll never know.” He snatched his water from her desk and uncapped it for a long drink.
“Why’s that?”
“Because you said you wouldn’t go out with me.”
Sloane closed her eyes for a second. “I’m tired.”
“Me, too,” he agreed. “Working out in the morning?”
“Always.”
“Where at?”
“The gym on the second floor.”
“I’ll meet you there at five-thirty,” he suggested. “We can run together. Is there a track? Or just treadmills?”
Sloane shook her head, but her groan turned into a laugh.
“I still have job apps and resumes out in a million other places,” he said. He downed the last of his water and then crumpled the plastic bottle up. “Just so you know.”
“Just don’t leave me until tax season is over.”
“I won’t leave you,” he said with a wink. “But my point was that I’m a temporary employee.”
She folded her arms over her chest again. “You know, I might be sorry to see you go.”
“Because I brought you frozen coffee and ordered pizza.”
“Coffee is the key to my heart,” she agreed, “and thank you. But no, you’re just kind of fun.”
“Fun, huh?”
“Yeah. Like a mascot.”
“A mascot,” he repeated. “Wow. I don’t know what to even file that under when I bring a complaint against you. Sexual harassment? Ageism? Inhumanism?”
“Inhumanism?” she asked with a frown.
“Most mascots aren’t human,” he explained.
Sloane leaned over to take her purse from a drawer of her desk. “Let’s get out of here. This conversation is going nowhere.”
Jed grinned. Maybe, maybe not. She’d turned him down, sort of. Technically, he hadn’t officially asked her on a date. But she was talking to him. Smiling. Laughing!
She was having fun.
And most people liked mascots. Why else did they exist?
Sloane flipped the lights off as they went, and Jed waited in the hall when she locked the main office door. Since it was well after midnight now, the corridor was empty, and there was no wait for the elevator. Jed wouldn’t have minded a bit of a wait.
