Chapter Sixty

ELENA

“WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS IN MY OFFICE?” I asked Colton, who had walked in for the third time that morning, holding papers for me to sign. My statement was meant to be a joke, but the more I looked back, the more it wasn’t. There was always on reason or the other for him to be in my office, and it was indeed making me feel a little bit off.

Colton placed the papers on my desk and just smiled. “That would be because I like you, and cannot be away from you for a minute.” he said, winking at me.

A week ago, when we had just met, I would have taken that as a complement. But right now, it only increased my discomfort around him, and made me deeply uncomfortable.

I laughed it off, taking the papers and pretending to look into them. “Okay then, I will just look at these, and send it over.” I told him with a nod. The man needed to get his shit together, and stop saying things like these to me, especially when we had our little thing from before, between us.

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