Chapter 9

Jesse had been ignoring me for a week and I in turn acted like he didn't exist. I'd ride the elevator with him without so much as a word exchanged. I left my car at home and waited until he was about to leave and he just drove off with me standing there in the cold. I even showed up to his lunch spot and loudly told the server that I'd recommend the place to my coworkers and he didn't flinch.

It was getting on my damn nerves. All I'd ever done was be nice to him. I extended an olive branch and he would spit in my face?

The asshole. So when the company retreat was announced, I knew it was my chance to make him stop ignoring me.

I picked out your outfit the night before; high-waisted jeans that clung to me like a second skin and a long sleeve tube top that showed off my shoulders. I'd been hitting the gym for a couple months and I was finally feeling like my old self – before my disastrous marriage.

I slept like a baby knowing he would not be able to resist getting an eyeful.