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God, I didn't want to have to be doing this right now. "Thanks," I said and put my hand out for her to see. "Yeah, we're getting married at the end of the month actually."
"This must have cost a fortune," Sierra said and looked back up at my face.
I just shrugged. I didn't know how much it cost and didn't want to know.
"How old are you?" Tavon asked.
"22. Same as all of you I assume."
"Right. So aren't you a little young to get married? Geez, I can't even imagine dating a girl for more than a few weeks. And you're going to marry someone in a couple of weeks? Aren't you worried you're going to get bored with him?"
"Don't freak her out, Tavon," Zach said. He sat down at the desk diagonally from mine. "I'm sure she's not marrying a guy like you."
"Yeah because I'm not whipped. I wouldn't send a girl flowers on her first day of work. It's kinda desperate."
"I think it's romantic." Sierra gave me a small smile. "I wish a guy would send me flowers."
"Then you probably shouldn't date Tavon," I said.
Sierra and Zach both laughed.
I ran my thumb across my engagement ring. I wanted to think James had given me flowers to be sweet. But I think Tavon's first thought was more accurate. James wanted to make sure no one flirted with me. He didn't have anything to worry about. I don't know why he didn't realize that. Or maybe he was just trying to embarrass me because I was giving him a hard time about the PDA thing.
"So, who's the lucky guy?" Tavon asked.
Before I had a chance to answer, Andy came back over and said it was time to head down to the meeting.Anderson.That was going to take some time to get used to.
I didn't want to lie to anyone, but I was glad I didn't have to tell them yet. I wanted to make friends with my coworkers and it was going to be hard once they knew I was engaged to the boss. There was no reason why I should be treated differently just because of my relationship with James.
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Zach leaned on the armrest and whispered in my ear. "So what happened to your eye?"
I immediately removed my arm from the armrest and nodded to the person standing up in front of the large conference room. It was the head of the human resources department and he was talking about all sorts of rules and regulations. "Pay attention," I whispered back.Pay attention?Zach was going to think it was something crazy if I avoided the question. "I mean nothing," I whispered again. "I'm clumsy. I hit my face on a doorknob when I bent over to get something the other day."
"Really? It kind of looks like someone hit you."
"Well, no one did. And what would you even know about that?"
"What, you think I haven't been in my fair share of fights?" He looked back up at the director of human resources.
Just because he had a tattoo and a buzz cut didn't make him a tough guy. He was a marketing intern probably from some prestigious school. I rolled my eyes and tried to listen to the sexual harassment policy. I knew my bruise was still visible despite what James said. I lightly touched my cheek but immediately dropped my hand when I could feel Zach's eyes on me again.
"Oh my God, there he is," Sierra whispered from the other side of me.
I looked over to where she was pointing. James had just walked into the room. As soon as I made eye contact with him he smiled.
"He's so dreamy," Sierra whispered.
Yes, he is."I'm pretty sure he's engaged," I said instead. I had become just as territorial as him. Other girls thought he was dreamy, but he was mine.
"Of course a guy like him is engaged. Do you think we'll get to meet him?"
I didn't have to answer, because the human resources guy had just introduced James and all the interns had started clapping. There were about four interns for every department in Hunter Tech, which meant there were about 50 of us.
James walked up to the podium and raised his hand to silence everyone. "Welcome to Hunter Technologies," James said. It was strange seeing him up there. It felt like I was back in school listening to one of his lectures. He was completely in his element and I felt a pang of guilt. We hadn't talked about it much since moving here, but I wondered if he missed it.
"Even his voice is sexy," Sierra said.
