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He balls his hand into a fist on the table next to me. “You’re angry at me because of your own mistake?”
“Oh, fuck you!” I sass back. “Don’t play innocent here. You knew it was him and you let me believe I was crazy.”
“Me?” he scoffs “What about you? I told you from the start it was someone else. You’re the one who wouldn’t let it go.”
“Yeah, you just conveniently left out the part where you have a doppelganger wandering around town,” I say, getting right up in his face.
He still towers over me, looking down on me. “It’s not my fault your drunk vision can’t tell people apart.”
“I thought he was you at the coffee shop.”
He shakes his head, stepping back and looking away from me. “You met him again?”
There’s accusation in his voice. I lean my head back in surprise. “Yeah,” I say, placing my hand on my hip. “He asked me out when I ran into him at lunch. He took my number down wrong, which is why he never called. A mistake, I might add, that could have easily been corrected had you told me about him.”
He exhales suddenly, sounding disgusted. “You wanted me to give my brother your number? You can’t date him.”
“Excuse me?”
His demeanor changes to something I’ve never seen before. His confidence slips. His flirty tone is gone. His intensity is at an all time high.
“You think it didn’t cross my mind that it could have been Mack?” he grits through his teeth. “Like we haven’t been mixed up with each other since the day we were born?” He steps closer to me, hovering over me again. “I’m not an idiot, Addison.”
My heartbeat is in my throat. I can hear my own breath. I try to remain calm. “Then why did you kiss me?”
His eyes dart back and forth across my face, but he doesn’t answer. I don’t look away. His mouth closes tight, and he swallows hard. His eyes fall down to my lips, and they part in anticipation.
I’m not sure if he’s going to kiss me again, but it isn’t until this moment that I realize that I want him to. More than anything, I want him to.
The conference room door swings open, and in walks one of the sales managers. “Oh, sorry. Did you guys schedule out the room?”
We both step back from each other to a more professional distance. Declan shakes his head. “No, we were just heading out. It’s all yours.”
He walks out of the conference room before I have a chance to stop him, so I speed walk to catch up to him in the hallway. “This isn’t over,” I whisper.
“Oh, yes it is. It is way past over. It’s not ever going to start.”
I scurry along next to him. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
He stops midstep, grabbing my arm and leaning in close. He checks no one is around us before lowering his voice. “It means,” he grits through a clenched jaw. “That you are going to text Mack and cancel.”
“Like hell I am.”
He squares his shoulders, frowning at me. “Stop being so stubborn.”
“Where do you get off trying to tell me who I can and cannot date?”
He squeezes his mouth into a thin line. “We’ve already kissed. It’s a twin thing. It’d be like incest or something.”
I let out a startled laugh. “What? Wait, twin? He’s your twin? Oh, for fuck’s sake.”
“I already told you that.”
I press my hand against his chest, pushing him back before continuing to walk back to my desk. “No, you said brother. I just thought you were related. Of course you knew it was him on the trolley.”
He follows after me. “That’s beside the point now.”
I whip around and stop in front of him. “The point? Ha! You realize I kissed him first, right? Not to mention, I’d be the one sleeping with him. Not you. There’s nothing weird about it.”
