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She nods, accepting it as answer enough “Breakfast was delicious I’ll see you later”

She disappears back into the kitchen and I s thickly

The words are on the tip of ue to ask her if she wants to ride with me, but she never has before and it would raise suspicions, so I don’t

I grab raduation gift from my parents I’ve wanted one forever but never had the funds for one I was shocked when they surprisedup to Thea asto turn out?

I beat the earlywithout incident

Kincaid Architecture takes up the whole top floor of one of the largest buildings in Denver My dad’s business started srew into one of the most revered architecture firms on the west coast

I parkit doesn’t look like a coht be cool, but this is his business, and we’re all expected to dress and look decent

I storethe button; the doors slide right open It’s still early enough tha

t not

I step inside and press the nuainst the side of the elevator

I wish I had just oneto work I want to be able to think and talk to Thea withouton work

She agreed to give e herbefore then, and I don’t want that to happen

I need to show her how good we are together, but I know I need to take things slow—in other words, what I said in the kitchen yesterday, and the kiss, were a bad idea But I can’t take it back now, and I don’t want to, I’h

I head into my office—yeah, office and not cubicle—Thea’s assistant desk sits inside the rooinally been outside but after only a few days of working together, we realized I was shit at giving her anything to do unless she was in here

I drop my backpack behind my desk, shuck off my jacket, and collapse in the chair My collar bites intoto loosen it like it’s a vice cinching around me