Laws of Attraction by Sarah Title

Author:Sarah Title [Title, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It had been a pretty good week. Nobody sent her any last-minute urgent research requests, three of her dogs got adopted, and Foster sent her a picture of Starr and said he hoped she’d recovered from the dinner-that-shall-not-be-named. She probably owed him an apology, but because they were more or less normal and professional around each other, she just kept her head down. She didn’t need to see him any more than was absolutely necessary. Not because she was falling for him, but because every time she talked to him, he seemed to do something that annoyed her. Like show up and try to charm her parents into being nice to her.

The nerve.

Then, over the weekend, she hadn’t run into him at the shelter, which wasn’t disappointing at all. It was a relief. The week before, she’d seemed to run into him everywhere she went, so this was a nice change of pace.

Because she didn’t care about seeing him. Also, because no Foster at the shelter meant he hadn’t had some kind of breakdown and returned Starr. In fact, Maddie said Foster was embarrassingly in love with the dog, even though he denied it. He’d bought her sweaters. Plural.

So when she happened to be on his floor to deliver some misdirected mail, she just poked her head in to ask how Starr was doing. That was it. God, like there was another reason she would talk to him?

He was staring at his computer. He wasn’t exactly pulling his hair out, but he was definitely using lots of force to push it out of its normal, neat position.

She shouldn’t bother him.

But then he looked up at the doorway.

And smiled at her.

Well, it would be rude to walk away now.

“Hi,” she said. “I was just . . . passing through.” Like a stalker. To be fair, she was stalking the dog.

“Come on in. Sit down.” He stood up and walked around the desk and pulled out a chair for her. His hair was still sticking up. Without thinking, she reached up and brushed it down.

“Oh! Sorry. You’re, uh . . . it’s better now.”

He frantically flattened out the rest of his hair. “I was concentrating. Sometimes I . . . you know.”

Why were they acting like two kids who’d never spoken to someone of the opposite sex before?

“So . . . how’ve you been?” he asked.

“Fine, good.”

“Convincing.”

“No, I’m fine. And . . . Sorry about last weekend. After the dinner with my family, I mean.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for.”

“Okay, thanks. I appreciate that.”

“Unless you want to reconsider your opinion that I’m not good with parents. For the record, I am.”

“Despite all evidence to the contrary?”

“Hey, you’re the one who insists your parents aren’t normal.”

“Don’t make me laugh,” she said, but too late. She was laughing.

He didn’t say anything for a minute, just watched her. She was starting to worry that there was something on her face when he said, “Your family is terrible.”

“Tell me about it.”

“They don’t deserve you.”

And now she was sure there was something on her face because it felt all hot and weird.

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