The call had disconnected but Dean couldn’t take his gaze from the phone in his hand. Jay and April were having a conversation about him, and April rang to let him eavesdrop? As for making her feelings plain, she shouldn’t have bothered, because he already knew.
“Does the owner want us to use the manufacturer’s part or the cheaper option?”
Dean jumped, recoiled, and almost shrunk down before he recognised Mark. The man’s annoying habit of getting into everyone’s face, encroaching into personal space, couldn’t have occurred at a worse time. Mark’s expression remained open, but he lifted his chin, raised an eyebrow, and scanned Dean to his toes and back up again. Did his lips twitch? Dean should berate him for coming round to the wrong side of the desk, but couldn’t summon the energy. He c
