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.”

Let me see.” He passed me my phone. One look and

from Nora: “Is Mr. Drake impotent? How else could he share a room with a hottie like you

a

to die. This was totally my fault for telling her.

awkwardly falling asleep in Ashton’s room.

now.

shouldn’t have answered at all. Why did she have to text right when Ashton had my phone? And with

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

I was speechless.

But playing it

casual with me. Doing and

normally. “Oh yeah? Can’t

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

in my head. “Stop right there, Ashton.” I’d lost

get a medical check if you

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

wife,” I said, getting up to escape to

I recognized the cologne – I knew who it was without

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

jealous face, I laughed. “What, we can’t eat

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

trying to

two degrees from Cambridge. What credentials do you have?”

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

has their strengths and weaknesses. But Logan was too arrogant. He only saw