Page 27 of The Fall

She laughs lightly. “Didn’t you say he made a reservation at Sophia?”

I groan. “I don’t know shit about fancy places, you know that.”

“Okay, my advice is to relax. It’s going to be okay.”

A woman in a stall next to me grunts and I side-eye the wall between our two stalls, lowering my voice even more. “You think so?”

“You’ll have coffee with him and see what you think of him in a nonwork setting.”

“Okay.” I breathe in and out, steadying myself. “I should get back.”

“Sneak a picture of him and send it to me.”

“Absolutely not.”

“Come on.”

“I have to go.”

“Wait! Have you talked to Rowan?”

I furrow my brow, confused. “No. I told you he sent flowers, I texted him and he never responded.”

“Oh.” She sounds disappointed. “Is the engineer as hot as he is?”

I roll my eyes. “Is anyone?”

“Well...Dom.”

“I have to go.”

“Okay, you can catch me up on everything that happens when you get here.”

That’s exactly what I won’t feel like doing after a long evening of work. I’ll just want to pick the boys up and get them home to bed.

“Nothing’s going to happen. This is just a meeting. I’m hanging up now before he thinks I climbed out the bathroom window.”

I end the call and put my phone back in my bag. After a quick check of my reflection in the mirror, I leave the bathroom and go back to the table.

When I pull back the curtain covering our table and step inside, I see that Harrison has taken off his tie and undone the top two buttons on his shirt.

Two.Not just one. The dark tuft poking up from where the second button was opened is my first encounter with a client’s chest hair.

There’s also another bottle of wine on the table. I hide my alarm and sit back down.

“Okay, back to the contract.”

“Don’t you like the wine?” Harrison asks.

“I do. It’s delicious. But I need to be able to concentrate.”

He nods. “I understand. We won’t have to worry about work getting in the way next time.”

My blood pressure cannot be good right now. I’m sweating and my heart is beating rapid-fire. It’s not like the nervousness I felt with Rowan. This is more of awhat the hell am I going to dokind of thing.

I need my job. And I need to keep a good working relationship with the Sundrift employees I work with. How can I do that with Harrison now?

Whether we decide to date each other or not, I have a feeling this is going to end badly for me.

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