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My jaw nearly hit the floor when the words tumbled out of his mouth “You did what?”

“The department seemed confused that you would up and leave out of nowhere As was I, Emery,” Mitch said “I don’t knohat you think happened or what you think you were doing by leaving, but it’s over now You don’t have to be so irrational about it all I’ve fixed it for you”

“What I think happened?” I sneered

“Gaslighting,” Jensen said under his breath “Priceless”

“I don’t even have time to listen to this,” I said with fury in my voice “I knohat happened I knohat you did to ram I cannot believe you went behind my back to toss out the paperwork I’d filed”

“Eain

“Stop”

“You heard her,” Jensen said He ht now isyou want is for me to take this up with the president or the provost I happen to be on a first-name basis with both”

“Are you threatening me?” Mitch asked

“Depends on whether or not you walk out of here right now”

“Who is this guy, Emery?”

“He’s an and then trailed off

What was Jensen?

“Boyfriend,” Jensen filled in

My eyebrows rose dramatically Boyfriend? Whoa! Whoa! Where had that cohtly, and I wanted to say so, but I didn’t knohat to say Not that I didn’t like the phrase rolling off his tongue, but I hadn’t even knoe were doing I hadn’t knohere this was going

Now, he was clai me

Jensen Wright was clai me

“Boyfriend,” Mitch said He seeh his options He faced“Well, that was fast”

“Not fast enough,” I muttered

“Why a for his trendy leather“You always did like to be a kept woman”

I winced at his assessment as he brushed past Jensen and out the door Shots had been fired And I’d let him have the last word Ass

“Emery…”

“Let’s just get so Between the confrontation with Mitch and Jensen clai he was my boyfriend, I needed a second to think

“I didn’tthat on you,” he said He sounded sheepish