Blind Date with a Billionaire Professor (Blind Date Disasters) by Evangeline Kelly

Author:Evangeline Kelly [Kelly, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Colin

Since fifty percent of my job was strictly research, a good portion of my time centered on analyzing experiment results and using the information to compose papers for scientific journals. It was a fascinating business, one I enjoyed very much, but my mind was divided today.

Abby kept sneaking into my thoughts, and I had to keep pushing those thoughts aside because I had too much work to do. I refused to dwell on why I was spending time with her when she didn’t return my interest—chalk that up to my own stupidity and propensity towards trouble. Still, I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that I had one more session with her and then I might never see her again. Sure, she’d probably be amicable to remaining friends, but I didn’t know if I could handle that. My feelings for her grew each time I saw her, and that left me in a vulnerable position, one I couldn’t tolerate—or shouldn’t at the very least. Not if I wanted some semblance of control over my life.

Normally, I didn’t have a moment to spare, but after memories of Abby’s quick smile and easy manner threw off my focus yet again, I left my office and headed to the lab to check on Wilhelmina. It was time for a distraction.

When I walked in, she was deep in concentration at the lab table. We studied all kinds of fungi, not just mushrooms. I watched her as she took a soil sample, added water, and then arranged it on a petri dish. She was growing more samples in incubators that looked similar to refrigerators though we’d set the temperature for a comfortable eighty degrees. There was a lot of work that went into research. A lot.

Wilhelmina’s head shot up. “Colin, I didn’t realize you were standing there.”

“Just needed a break. I have a lot on my mind today.”

“I bet.” She gave me an impish grin and returned to her task.

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“Abby told me about your hike the other day.”

“Oh, that.”

“Yes, that.”

“What did she say?”

She handled a few tasks without even looking up, and after a couple of minutes of being ignored, I cleared my throat. “What did Abby say?”

Grinning, she put her hands in the pockets of her white lab coat. “You want to know this time?”

“Yes.”

“Just yes?” she asked, tilting her head to the side. “That’s all you have to say on the matter?”

“Why do you have to make this a thing? I asked a simple question—that’s it.”

Her grin widened. “Oh, but I love to play with you, Colin. I want to see how much you need the information I hold in my grubby little hands.”

“I don’t see anything in your hands at the moment.”

She walked to the other side of the room and turned on the radio. “That was just a figure of speech.”

I sighed. “Obviously. Now, what did she say about the hike?”

“Oh, so you do care.”

“We both know I do.”

She met my gaze, and her eyes glittered.

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