Chapter 190

The following day I was sitting in my office going over the contract before Blake arrived to pick me up for our lunch. I was avoiding Cole like the plague after what happened the night before.

I tried my best to push it out of my mind, but every time I saw him walking toward my office, my heart would race, only for him to walk past it. I wondered what happened between him and Sophie after I left. The more I tried to convince myself I didn't care, the more it was bugging me, so much so that I couldn't focus on a damn thing on this contract. "Shay?"

I look up when I hear my name and see Cole standing at the door. Oh shit. "Yes?”

"Can we talk for a second?"

I sigh, "If it's about work, yes, we can. If it's not, then no." I tell him, dropping my pen, and he exhales.

"Shayla—" Cole interjects, but my intercom goes off, interrupting whatever he was going to say. He scowls at it.

"Mrs Hoult, Mr Bryant is here and waiting for you in the lobby." Jenn