Kiss and Tell by Athena Wright

Kiss and Tell by Athena Wright

Author:Athena Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pure Passion Ink
Published: 2019-05-08T16:00:00+00:00


NINETEEN

THE GRIM EXPRESSION on Connor’s face when I’d shut the door haunted me for the entire week.

The last thing I’d wanted to do was hurt him. But I hadn’t expected him to think anything had changed.

Wasn’t he the ex-rock star? Wasn’t he used to one night stands? Why would he think our tryst could be anything other than that?

He had been cheerier than usual that next morning, enough so that I had noticed and made a mental note of it. Maybe I should have known something was up.

But I’d been telling Connor for weeks that I couldn’t risk the rumors that might start if people thought the two of us were together. Just because I’d given in to our explosive chemistry for one night didn’t change that.

“…with the project, is that right, Ms. Browning?”

I looked up from my notepad, my pen hovering above the page. I hadn’t heard a single word or taken a single note the entire meeting. My coworkers, my boss, Peter, and a few higher ups looked at me expectantly from around the conference room table. I furiously tried to recall what had just been said.

“Yes, things are going well,” I said, hoping it was the right answer.

“Glad to hear it,” one of the executives said. “This is an important contract. There’s the potential for more work after this one.”

“There is?” I asked. “With the same client, you mean?”

“Walter mentioned he brought his younger brother on board to help with the project,” the executive said. “You’ve been working with him, yes?”

My heart sped up. People in the office knew about Connor?

“Yes,” I said carefully. “I’ve been working with his brother.”

“It seems like Walter Moore is planning for something bigger than just what he can take care of on his own,” the executive said.

“Bigger?” I asked. “Like what?”

“There’s no concrete details yet,” my boss Charlotte replied. “But if you do a good job on this one, you might end up bringing a lot of new work to the company.”

This was the first I’d heard of it. Neither Connor or Jessie had said anything about further work.

Maybe they didn’t know. Maybe it was only Walt who had been talking to my bosses. He certainly hadn’t been talking to me. I still hadn’t spoken a word with the man, which was worrying. Did he want to renovate the sketchy dive bar after all? Was that the new work they were talking about?

How long would I be working with Connor?

How long until we were no longer colleagues? How long until we were just two normal people, a guy and a girl who had met at a bar?

“If you’re finding the Walter Moore project too daunting, I’m more than willing to take over that extra work for you,” Peter said.

I bit down on my tongue to keep from bursting out with an expletive.

“I’m handling the Moore project just fine,” I said.

The thought of Peter taking on any new work from Walt, of meeting with him, or Jessie, or heaven forbid, Connor himself, made my stomach churn.



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