45
Emily Monroe
My phone pinged loudly, indicating a message had come in. I checked to see it was from Stiles.
“Dinner tonight? Pick the time and I’ll pick the place,” he wrote with a love heart.
A smile graced my lips as I tried my best not to squeal like a high schooler who just received a text from her crush. Though it was certain to me already that I had a mad crush on Stiles and perhaps it was more than a crush.
Mona walked into my office with a frown.
“Are you okay? I had a noise or screech, I..I can’t tell what it sounded like,” she said.
Oops. Maybe I had actually squealed out loud but it didn’t mean I had to tell Mona.
I composed myself, my eyes serious and clueless as ever.
“I’m perfectly fine. Actually, you must’ve heard that from the movie I had on. It’s nothing, you
