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 ears

Drake impotent? How else could he share a room with a hottie like you and

make a move?”

to die. This was totally my

awkwardly falling asleep in Ashton’s room. She hadn’t replied

now.

right away, she shouldn’t have answered at all. Why did she

low voice: “I’m perfectly healthy. Everything

I was speechless.

a hole. But playing it off would just

casual with me. Doing and saying whatever he wanted,

made me look up normally. “Oh yeah?

true.” Ashton sipped his drink before

went up in my head. “Stop right

a medical check if you need proof,”

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inappropriate, it made me overthink. Why did he need to prove anything? I wasn’t anything to

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

corner, someone grabbed my arm. I recognized

lunch with some tech guy at a place like this?”

can’t eat

angrier. “If you’re looking for someone new, at

Ashton down, trying to

from Cambridge.

that from his file this morning.

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

and weaknesses. But Logan was too arrogant. He only saw his