Office Mate by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: office romance, workplace romance
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2019-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

I’VE DEFINITELY BEEN blown off.

I know it for sure on Monday morning.

I’ve spent Sunday trying to talk myself down from jumping to conclusions, but he doesn’t call, and as the time passes, that deep sense of foreboding intensifies.

This isn’t good.

This can’t be good.

I’m not inexperienced with men. I’ve dated a lot. I’ve signed up with every decent dating app that covers this area. I usually know immediately when a date is promising and when it’s a flop.

But I’m completely clueless with Evan. Maybe because I had such a good time with him. I want him to feel the same way, so maybe I’m reading hope where there isn’t any.

Any hope I have dies an instant death when I come into the office on Monday morning. I get there at seven thirty because I’m so jittery about seeing Evan again.

He smiles and says good morning. He asks me if I had a good Sunday. He comments on my getting to the office earlier than normal today.

And then he turns back to his computer to work on his lesson plans.

I sit down heavily in my desk chair. It rolls slightly, and I have to stabilize it. I look at Evan’s back—the line of his shoulders, his straight back, the way his suit jacket fits him perfectly.

He’s blowing me off. He has to be.

He doesn’t want to have sex with me again.

It hurts. It can’t help but hurt even though I lectured myself about being reasonable.

I feel rejected in an incredibly personal way. Being dropped after sex always feels that way. Sex is deeply personal whether people want to acknowledge it or not. But this feels worse. Because it feels like I shared more than my body with Evan.

I gave him something of myself on Saturday night, and he doesn’t want it.

My throat hurts, so I swallow over it. I fight to keep my eyes from growing blurry. I’ve always been an emotional person, and it’s hard to hide it now.

But I have to. I can’t let him know he hurt me. We’d never be able to make it through the semester, the rest of the school year. We have to share an office, and we have to get along well enough to work in the same space.

So I have to be a mature person here and not make a big deal about it.

It feels like a big deal. It feels terrible.

But I’m a grown-up. And being a grown-up means accepting that the world isn’t always what we think it should be. People aren’t always what we want them to be.

This is a blow, but I’ll get over it.

This is definitely why people advise against getting involved with people you work with.

This is terrible.

I turn on my computer and review my notes for class. Twenty minutes later, I leave the office with nothing more than, “I’ll see you later.”

At least class will hold my attention and I can forget about Evan for a little while.

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