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She hadn’t meant to wear it in the office, but she’d forgotten to take it off one day.
Of course, one of her coworkers saw it and asked.
The ring also hadn’t stopped one of the other managers that she didn’t work with from making inappropriate comments to her about her attire.
Well, not necessarily inappropriate but unwanted, and saying no didn’t seem to stop it either.
Now she had to keep the ring on or someone would ask where it went. She almost admitted why she had it on one day but was glad she didn’t if Rod was asking about her.
If he knew where she worked, he might know someone in the building. For all she knew, he worked in the building too. There were more businesses in there than she knew of.
“Does it matter?” she asked. “It’s none of your business.”
Rod shrugged. “It could be there is no fiancé or even any boyfriend at all.”
He was smirking at her now.
“Hey, honey,” she heard and turned her head to see a gorgeous guy in a suit standing next to her. “You left before me this morning. I thought we were going to leave at the same time.”
Rod’s jaw dropped and she wasn’t sure why. All she could think of was she couldn’t get away from this crap, but the guy in the suit had been in here before. He always watched and didn’t say much to anyone.
He was often on his phone, as she was. Sometimes he was talking to people, but she tried not to listen. It was rude.
And right now, the look in his eye told her he was trying to help.
Maybe if she just played along all this attention on her would end once and for all. If she had her way, she’d just find another coffee shop, but it wasn’t her choice.
“Sorry about that,” she said. “You were running late and you know I have a meeting this morning.”
The guy laughed. He had his drink in his hand. Looked to be just a normal coffee like she got.
Her drinks were being brought over saving her once again. Or so she thought until the mystery man said, “Then let’s walk out together.”
Lilian hoped he didn’t turn out to be another guy hitting on her, but she didn’t have much of a choice unless she wanted her ruse discovered, so she stood and let the sexy man put his hand on her lower back to shift her out of the way as he lifted the drink tray off the table for her.
There were a lot of eyes on her when she walked out and she had no idea why that was. Her best hope was she could convince her coworkers that they needed to get coffee from another place. Maybe she could spike one of them to give someone a stomachache and that would help her cause?!
2
THE SIDEKICK
Braylon Carlisle had been watching this young woman being bothered while she got her coffee for over a month.
Did he find her sexy like the rest of them in a sweet girl-next-door vibe? Hell yeah.
But she was engaged, for one thing. And young, maybe just out of college.
It seemed that everyone moved here to find a big dream and didn’t realize what they were signing up for.
“Thanks for your help,” she said when they were outside on the sidewalk.
He turned and said, “Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to come off strong, but you’re a popular person in there.”
Lilian snorted. “Seems it. No one wants to take no for an answer.”
She paused and looked at him. He was somewhat engrossed in her brown eyes and found he was at a loss for words.
When she cleared her throat, he said, “Sorry again. Guess that means me too. But since there are a lot of people watching, why don’t I walk you to your office?”
