CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE

Whatever Jared said… He must’ve been joking, regardless of the intensity of his stare, regardless of how his skin felt hot against mine, or how his light squeeze of his fingers, left a tremor quaking through my entire body, causing goosebumps to erupt in their wake.

I pulled my hands away from him as we exited the company building. I didn’t want to make a sense, not after the ‘badassery’ Jared had just displayed, so I hurried my steps and entered the car before him.

I drove in silence and continued to ignore his once-in-a-while glance at me till we got to his place.

“Jared, what was that?” I dropped my phone on the table.

“What?” I rolled my eyes at him, seething.

“Don’t play dumb with me. What was that thing you did at the office?”

“You mean confess my feelings? It’s not news Lee and you know it.” My face scrunched up in pain and everything I’d buried deep down, my feelings, things I wanted to say that I couldn’t, all came rushing up to the surface until my chest felt too heavy