More Than A Favor

Chapter 69

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His tone made me want to slap him. Like we couldn’t take a lunch break because of deadlines?

Before I could snap back, Ashton spoke up. “It’s our day off today.”

Logan glared at him, then turned to me. “Who approved this day off?”

“I requested it,” Ashton answered again.

Logan’s face hardened. “You? You’re just a lighting tech. What right do you have to ask for time off? Your job is to help us complete and verify the lighting adjustments.”

His words were straight–up insulting.

That got me fired up too. ‘Mr. Mercer, I’m in charge of the amusement park project. I approved today’s break. You can’t expect people to work non–stop without eating.”

Not the best metaphor, but it made the point.

Ashton added, “I might just be a lighting tech, but aren’t you the ones who desperately need us?”

Logan, getting it from both sides, was fuming.

“Fine, take your break. Eat well and recharge. The company’s paying,” he snapped, storming off to the

counter.

I smirked. “Mr. Drake, we should’ve ordered more.”

Ashton just looked at me, making me feel weirdly self–conscious.

I was about to look down when he said, “You got a text.”

passed me my phone. One look and my

impotent? How else could he share a room with

make a

wanted to die. This was totally my

texted her this morning about awkwardly falling asleep in Ashton’s room. She

now.

at all. Why did she have to text right when

Ashton’s low voice: “I’m perfectly healthy. Everything

I was speechless.

wanted to crawl into a hole. But playing it off would just make him overthink it.

Doing

me look up normally. “Oh yeah? Can’t just claim

true.” Ashton sipped his drink before adding, “I

went up in my head. “Stop

was just going to say I could get a medical check if you

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Why did he need to

the proof for your future wife,” I said, getting up to escape to

I turned the corner, someone grabbed my arm. I recognized the cologne –

Having lunch with some

can’t eat here? Did you buy

you’re looking for

kept putting Ashton down, trying

two degrees from Cambridge.

from his file this morning.

to Miles academically. Sure, Logan was clever – you need that to be successful in business. He’d taken over his dad’s company and made it an

arrogant. He only saw his own success,