The Space Between by Kate Canterbary

Author:Kate Canterbary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Kate Canterbary
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

PATRICK

I used to think working alongside Andy was torture, and I spent the greater portion of those days obsessing about the ways she drove me crazy and wanting to get her naked.

As with most things, I didn’t have a fucking clue what I was talking about.

Torture was sharing an office with a woman who seemed oblivious to the fact that, for the past three weekends, we had hot, wild sex for hours straight. It was wanting to throw her on the conference table and fuck her because her hair was everywhere and she smelled like flowers and her lips did terrible things to my imagination, all coupled with the newly acquired knowledge of precisely how good it was with her.

Torture was falling asleep with Andy in my arms only to wake up and discover her on the opposite side of the bed. It was spending the whole day in her company without seeing a single flicker of recognition in her eyes.

It was fucking agonizing.

Drumming my fingers against the edge of my laptop, I invented ploys to steal time with Andy. She wanted to try tons of restaurants, and I still owed her Peking duck. I kept my grandfather’s designs in my apartment, and if Andy was anything, she was fanatical about old architecture. We could always get a drink and see to that fantasy of hers, the one with the talking points. Or I could stop being a giant pussy and just ask to see her, even if it was a weeknight and she always created reasons to wait until the weekend.

“Dude, I know. This afternoon has been like ten years. I’m tired too, but let’s get this done,” Shannon said.

“Sorry.” I inclined my head toward Shannon’s list. “What’s next?”

“One big item and some smallerish-slash-personalish items.” She hoisted a folder. “We need to redraft our strategy and partnership structures because we’re no longer a sole proprietorship. Angus changed things when he and Uncle Seamus went their separate ways, and while it isn’t a huge deal, I think we need to clarify our partnership structure. I can totally handle that, but there are some big questions.”

I glanced at the clock on my screen and figured Andy was still elbow-deep in the next round of Wellesley plans, and wasn’t leaving until she solved whichever problem was vexing her. That’s how she was; it wasn’t done until it was done, and she never walked away from a challenge.

That’s probably why she tolerated my brand of impatient bastard so well.

“Okay. Let’s knock them out.”

“I think you need to acknowledge that you’re the managing partner or CEO or principal.”

A huge sigh burst from my chest and I leaned back. “Only if you’re a managing partner, too.”

She threw her pen across the table in frustration. “If it’s you and me, why not Matt? Why not Sam, too? We’ll leave out Riley for the time being, but the four of us for sure, right?”

“Shannon,” I groaned. There was no right answer to this question, and more wrong answers than I could shake a T-square at.

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