A few days later and I was back to work. I hadn’t heard from Aidan, not that I expected to. He’d flat out rejected me and there was no reason for him to call me. Maybe that was the biggest reason I was dreading going into work. It wasn’t just that I didn’t want to see him, it was that I could no longer see him as my friend. He’d become just another jerk in my world. A jerk who toyed with me then pushed me aside when I finally let him in. How could I have been so stupid? I pushed into the meeting room and found everyone else already there. “Finally,” Jenn sighed. “Aidan won’t tell us anything about what happened when he took you home the other night. Are you two finally together?” I scoffed at her, laughing like it was the funniest thing I’d heard in a while. “Oh, Jenn, that’s rich. No,

