Second Time Around by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

It was so very hard for her to focus on work after that.

She and Valerie weren’t dating, but their relationship status couldn’t be summed up by ex-girlfriends either, anymore. They were something. The question of what this something was, was the fact that Valerie was so close but too far for her to touch or talk to left Monica maddeningly distracted.

“Girl,” Sharon said smugly.

Monica shoved her face away, a blush rising to her cheeks.

“Don’t say anything,” she muttered.

Sharon just grinned. On the other side of the room, Monica could see Valerie’s back, how she kept lifting a hand to tug at her hair. Monica wanted to lead her to the kitchen or to that unused office and do things people really shouldn’t do in the workplace.

“Monica?”

Her gaze snapped up. Jerry was standing right by her with lines between his brows, eyes going from Monica to Valerie. Monica flushed, embarrassed at having been caught so distracted by her boss. But hey, if he wanted to talk to her, maybe she would be able to talk to him about the conversation she had had with Mrs. Harrison, and the ideas the woman had had about the big collaborative painting they had talked about!

“Yes?”

“Could you come to my office for a second?”

“Yeah, okay,” Monica said, snatching a few files from her desk. “I had wanted to talk to you about some things, too.”

He led her to his office without another word, and Monica felt herself frown. Jerry wasn’t the most affable person in the world, but there was something strange here: he was walking in front of her, his eyebrows were low over his eyes, and he wasn’t chatting with her as they went.

She couldn’t think of what could have gone wrong with her project so suddenly. He seemed to like it so much; he had certainly seemed to love the idea that she would produce something they could use for ads for a long time to come…

He sat down behind his desk and she sat in front of him. She stayed quiet; she didn’t know how to manage this strange side of her boss. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Look,” he said, “you’re a good girl, Monica. I’ve really appreciated you the last few years you’ve been working with us and I think your project has a lot of potential. But things have changed in the past few weeks and months and I’ve just found out why and… I’m so disappointed on you.”

Monica froze. “What? Why? Nothing changed. Jerry, I haven’t—”

“It all started when Valerie was hired,” he said loudly and pointedly, and when he looked at her, he looked like he knew all her secrets, like there was no point in hiding at all.

Monica’s heart stopped beating in her chest.

“What?” she asked blankly.

He sighed. “I’m not going to say it because we both know it, Monica. As I said, you’re a good girl, and I’ve been growing to like Valerie too. I don’t know why you two

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