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I don’t even know his last name. I’m sure I’ll find out Wednesday, but my need-to-know-everything brain wants to know now. I grab my phone, convincing myself that I deserve to know who I just slept with. I search his first name on social media, but thousands of results populate. Lorenzo isn’tthatuncommon of a name.
I try searching with our city name, but none of the photos that populate are of him. Instead, I pull up the company’s page. Maybe Lorenzo started following it, or he does know someone that works there. I type Lorenzo into various searches and skim through people’s profiles, but I come up empty.
I should have asked him his last name. He asked mine. Giving up, I place my phone back on the nightstand, deciding against digging deeper. Come Wednesday, I’ll get his last name from the company directory and look him up then. Or, maybe I won’t. He’s just a coworker, right?
Then again, I have looked into some other coworkers. I get curious, and the internet can often reveal things about people they’d never come out and tell you.
I close my eyes again, but my mind races with thoughts of what seeing him at work will be like. Do I say hello? What if he ignores me? Are we supposed to be friendlier now that we’ve had sex? What if he does tell people what we did?
Eventually, I fall into a restless sleep.
Chapter Seven
December 27th
“Ididn’tseeyouleave the party Saturday,” Victor says, holding a steaming mug of coffee in his hand. My heart starts racing as I formulate a response.
“Yeah, I left around 9:30. Had to check on Felix,” I reply with an awkward chuckle.
“It got pretty wild after midnight. That new guy was passing out shots and being like, the ultimate hype man.”
“Lorenzo?” I say before I can stop myself.He went back after dropping me off?
“Yeah, the one you introduced us to.”
“Oh.” Victor gives me a curious look but I turn back to my computer screen. “Well, I’m glad it was fun. Too bad I missed it.”
“How was your Christmas?” he asks.
“Pretty good.” I should ask him about his, but my mind is reeling with the information he dropped.
“I’ll let you get back to work, see you for lunch,” Victor says when I start moving my mouse. Aimlessly, but he doesn’t know that.
I thought he was going home. Why did he offer to drive me if he wanted to stay at the party?
I open the company directory and search for his name, but it hasn’t been added yet. Frustration bubbles in me for various reasons.
I shouldn’t have slept with him. I knew it was stupid, but I couldn’t stop myself. His attractiveness hooked me and his personality reeled me in. And now, I’m the idiot fish out of water that’s going to be cooked for dinner.
I push it to the back of my mind and focus on my work. No one will know about it, and I will be denying it from here moving forward. I focus on reviewing the schedule Jasmine forwarded me. Numbers, I can deal with.
At noon sharp, I lock my computer and head to the small break room where most of us eat lunch. There’s a few restaurants nearby, but we only get thirty minutes, which I’m actually grateful for. I don’t need an hour to eat, forcing me to be at work later.
I pull my packed lunch from the refrigerator and sit between Victor and Alexandra, who’ve already got their leftovers out. We engage in small talk as I lay out my turkey sandwich, apple, carrots, and hummus.
Before I can process why I do it, my head turns towards the opening to the break room and my breath hitches. There he is, in all black, with the familiar look of amusement. He even kept his eyebrow piercing in, although it’s not like Rowan would care in the slightest.
His eyes shift to mine but I avert my gaze, lifting my sandwich and taking a bite. No matter how many times Char told me to “treat him like any other coworker,” I have no idea how to actually do that. Images of the wall I stared at as he thrust into me with the lights pulling on my throat cloud my vision, and my cheeks heat.
“Hey, Lorenzo,” Alexandra says.Don’t look up, don’t look up.
“Alexandra, Kate, Victor,” he says. His voice causes my stomach to swoop. I need to look up, knowing it’s attention grabbing if I don’t. When I raise my head, his eyes shift from Alexandra to me, but he moves them just as quickly to Victor.
I should be grateful that he’s acting so normally, treating me exactly like the other coworkers. But the stupid girl in me feels disappointed that that’s really all I am.
“There he is! How’s your first day treating you?” Victor says from my right. I swallow and take a sip of my water, willing it to assuage my nerves.
“Feels like I’ve worked here my whole life.” His eyes land on mine. “We missed you for the rest of the party, Kate. How was Felix?”
