Page 28 of The Office Games

Neither of us correct him.

TWELVE

JAMES

Taryn shivers against my chest as Bill slowly drives his truck. I rub my hands against her back to keep her warm, resisting the urge to taste her mouth again.

“This reminds me of my prom night,” I say. “My date’s father had to come get us after my car broke down.”

“Did that ruin the mood of you getting laid later?”

“No, I’d already ruined the night by talking to her about another girl.” I shrug. “She couldn’t wait to get the hell away from me.”

“I wish I could remember fun stuff like that,” she says. The only guy who asked me out to prom was Cameron.”

“I don’t believe that.”

“Georgia doesn’t either.” She laughs. “She claims other guys got creative and asked in all types of ways but…” She stops talking and tilts her head to the side.

“What high school did you go to?”

“Cedar Falls.”

“I knew that.” She shakes her head. “It’s crazy how we hardly crossed paths in high school but ended up working at the same company years later right?”

You have no idea. “Yeah…”

“Are you ever going to tell me about your long-distance girlfriend?” she asks.

“We’re off the record now?”

“For the rest of this trip, yes.”

“I don’t have a girlfriend, Taryn. Surely you would’ve noticed that by now.”

“You could’ve been sending her roses every week or going out to see her on weekends without me knowing.”

“Istillspend most of my time with you, regardless of last year's change,” I say. “I doubt a girlfriend—let alone a serious one, would ever go for that.”

“Maybe…”

“Does Cameron know how much time we spend together?”

“I don’t really talk to him about you.”

‘’Ashamed of me?”

“No, we just tend to spend more time talking about him and his plans. The last time we talked about you was months ago.”

“Was it positive?”

“Hell no.”

I laugh, and she pulls out her phone.

“Let me see something since you claim we talk too much for you to date other people.”

“We do, Taryn.”

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