Chapter 10

"Excuse me?"

Andre's eyes bore into hers. The goal was to make her uncomfortable and when she was feeling all sorts of heat on her, she would run out of the room and get him that coffee. Even though he didn't really want it.

Watching Colleen Caddell squirm was fast becoming a box office act to him.

But just as he was wrong on the whole room, workspace thing, he was also wrong on this one. Colleen stood her ground and said the word he least expected, not wavering in the slightest.

"No."

"No?" he repeated.

"Yes, Mr. Lourdes. Go get your own coffee."

Well, that went in the opposite direction he had planned. But he didn't push it. He simply left the room and after a few minutes, he was back with two cups of coffee. One for himself and one for her, completely oblivious of the third party in the room.

When he realized Tobias was, in fact, a person, he turned unapologetically to him and said, "Oh, did you want one?"

He chuckled, waving it off. "It's alright. I don't drink coffee any