Scarlett POVI was already a couple of minutes late getting to the office, lunch containers in hand, when a coworker spotted them and just about lost her mind.“Ms. Ravencroft, look at you! You brought lunch? Did you actually cook this morning?”We've got free lunch in the building, so nobody brings food from home, which means within about four seconds the entire floor was in on it.“You're gorgeous, you're capable, and now you cook too? That's just unfair.” “Seriously, you're basically the last boss of womanhood.”“Okay, okay, it's lunch, not a TED talk.” I spun around in my office.It was not the end.Because right about then Ryan Parker walked in, caught the tail end of the complete scene, and just stood there listening with this little smile on his face.Our eyes met, I smiled back on autopilot, and he disappeared into his office as if nothing had happened.
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