Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter

486

"Ms. Kay, you're here! I thought you weren't coming," Ron said, striding in with a bag just as I was checking

if breakfast had somehow disappeared into thin air.

"Ta-da! Breakfast!" he announced.

At that moment, it clicked.

Breakfast had arrived all right-just not the one Wayne sent.

I gave Ron a look, waiting. He didn't usually bring me breakfast without some kind of reason.

Sure enough, as he set the food down, he said, "I got called in at five this morning, and I was starving, so I, uh, ate the breakfast on your desk. This one's a replacement." Oh, please. Like I was buying that.

But I was too tired to start anything. "You didn't have to replace it. I already ate."

Total lie. I hadn't eaten at all; I'd barely had an appetite the past few days. And when I did eat, I just felt queasy.

saying my choice isn't good enough?"

smile. "Custom-made, huh? Guess I'll see. If it looks

container: shrimp bisque, garlic toast,

exactly who'd

good, smells good, and it's all

snapped the lid shut. "Eh, doesn't look that appetizing.

"Wait, this is all your favorite stuff.

him off, locking eyes with him. "How do you even know what my favorite foods

stammered, 1-1 heard you mention it. You told me, like, in one of

right. That was the worst cover ever. I knew Hayden had sent him to deliver this, even though we were over. And the fact he was still pulling these stunts? Frustrating... and confusing. What was he trying

food back in Hayden's face and demand an answer. But I held back. If he wanted a reaction, he'd get the

like it doesn't mean I still do. People change. You can stop liking someone halfway through life-why not

to

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like he was under

bacon potato cakes," I said, throwing out something totally random that Macy used to make back

looked utterly lost. "Wait, what?

cakes weren't exactly popular in