CHAPTER HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO

I hadn’t drunk anything through the night so I was surprised to see a hallucination of Jared in his car, calling. I almost laughed at myself. The car honked again and I almost screamed.

He was really there.

“Are you coming?” His voice sounded gravelly low and my ass was freezing off in the light material they called a dress. I hurried into his car and shut the door closed. I almost moaned as the heat of his car turned my frozen bones into warm goo.

“Thank you.” I croaked, unable to look him in the eye. I looked ahead and he started the car without saying a word.

My phone flashed with a text message and I took a look at it, welcoming it as a distraction. Immediately I opened the message, I kissed my teeth.

Where the hell are you?

I already left sir, it was getting pretty late. I fired back. I wanted to ignore him but no matter how much I wanted it, I couldn’t ignore my boss, especially since we’d gone to the event together.

I see, with your fiance, it seems. I looked behind me almost as