A week and a half after their friend date at the Café found Lauren going over their inventory, but her thoughts strayed to Ainslon and the relationship she kept qualifying as “friendship.” It was bullshit, but she would play along as long as it took. She knew Ainslon didn’t want to take their relationship to the next level until the business with the building concluded.
Even though the seller acted as if she liked her, Lauren knew she was only waiting around for a better offer. Her intuition leaned toward a better offer from Ainslon. Not that Lauren would fault the seller. After all, this was business and she was partial to Ainslon as well.
She didn’t want to bring up her thoughts to Ainslon, because Ainslon had kept mum on the entire subject and Lauren didn’t want to push her.
But the
