James slowly set down his phone on the desk Kelly was working. His face was still flushed and his heart was beating so rapidly he feared he was going to have a heart attack. He didn’t believe for one second that he misunderstood what he heard, if the kiss they almost had that night days ago wasn’t enough then this time he would have to be an i***t to miss the tone in her voice. However, to him it was still a gamble he wasn’t willing to take, if he was wrong it would form an irreparable rift in their relationship and he couldn’t afford that. While his mind was thinking millions of thoughts he didn’t realize that the entire Cortex had gone silent everyone staring at him in great shock. He didn’t even notice he had been standing there for over five minutes and Chelsea sent a voice note. Kell

