Elizabeth had no idea how Keith managed to live like this. For two days, she’d avoided Colin as much as humanly possible and it had been sheer t*****e. Every morning she dressed in a power suit, resolved to look at him like any other employee, to keep her distance.
But he chipped away at that resolve with a grin and a wink. She clung to the image of him making a pact with Keith so his charm wouldn’t melt her. She’d never been faced with such a challenge.
She sat in her car, staring at the ugly-a*s building, shoring up her defenses. Keith left town again with a promise that he’d be back for her birthday. Neither he nor Colin mentioned anything about their time together. Surely, if everything was on the up-and-up, they would’ve said something, offered a report, or even a comment in passing
