The Mess You Left Behind: An Enemies-to-Lover Romance by V.T. Do

Author:V.T. Do [Do, V.T. & Do, V.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: v.t. do
Published: 2020-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty: Take a Chance on Me

Wyatt

Emery was ignoring me.

That much was obvious when two days had passed without a single word from her. My calls were being sent to voicemail, and I wouldn’t be surprised if my texts had gone unread. It was driving me crazy.

It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to find her. It was that the things I had to do in order to see her felt... desperate. And I was not a desperate man. There was nothing about me that said that, yet I was willing to throw out my composure just to seek her out.

I looked down at my phone and frowned when another one of my calls went to voicemail. Cole found me in my office just seconds later. “Have you eaten lunch?” he asked in lieu of a greeting.

I shook my head, looking back to the screen of my laptop, noting that it had gone black. I shook the mouse and watched the computer come back to life, the same reports I was supposed to be reading still nothing more than a jumbled mess.

I needed to get my head on straight. This thing with Emery was messing with my concentration.

“Let’s go,” Cole said. I turned off the screen and stood up. I couldn’t go back to the reports now.

I grabbed my jacket hanging on the chair and walked over to him. “Where are we going?”

“I’m taking Joey out for lunch. You should join us. This will give you the chance to get to know her.”

“I take it she’s not mad at you anymore?” I grinned.

He shook his head. “I’ll never understand women. She said I was lecturing her, when all I did was let her know how dangerous going to that party was in the first place.”

My assistant, Cody, looked like he wanted to say something when he saw me walking out. I shook my head. “Take your lunch, Cole. I’m doing the same.”

He shot me a sheepish smile and nodded. I wasn’t surprised that he hadn’t taken his lunch break yet. He hardly took any breaks during the work day. When we rode the elevator down, the place was crawling with people. And I spotted Joey right away. She was standing near the door, texting someone on her phone. Emery perhaps.

I caught Cole’s attention and nodded to Joey. He smiled and walked over to her, and I followed behind. Joey was an attractive girl. She was also very different than Emery. She was only a little taller, which meant not tall at all, considering she barely reached my shoulders. She also had short blonde hair that said she meant business and the biggest brown eyes I had ever seen on anyone, reminding me a hell of a lot of Bambi.

She was curvier than Emery, and she wore those curves well. In another lifetime, had Cole not shown interest in her, I might have found her attractive. Now, all I saw was her best friend, a girl who haunted my every waking thought, and who was ignoring me like I was a disease she didn’t want to catch.

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