Finally (Neighbor from Hell #12) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,32

the office door.

“I-I don’t know about this.”

“I’ll be in and out. Devin will never find out,” she promised him as she pulled one of the delicious donuts that Devin bought for her out of the bag and took a bite.

“Devin doesn’t like anyone in the shop that doesn’t belong there,” he reminded her even as he grabbed hold of the chair and slowly pushed it the rest of the way as she picked up her feet.

“Which is why he won’t find out that I was here. I’ll be in and out before he knows it,” she promised him since she knew better than to let Devin catch her in the shop.

That was the reason why she always made sure to get here before Devin in the morning and the reason why she stayed late a few times a week. Devin didn’t play around when it came to safety. If you didn’t belong in the shop, he’d better not catch you anywhere near it. If you worked upstairs, you were automatically banned from entering the shop and while she absolutely agreed with that rule, the problem was that she couldn’t follow it.

Not if she wanted to be able to do her job.

That’s why she came in early before the saws were turned on and took pictures, talked to T.J. to see what Devin wanted pushed, grabbed a few new pictures of anything that hadn’t sold in the past week to see if she could give some attention on Facebook and Instagram, and got the hell out of there before Devin caught her. Normally, if she missed work, which wasn’t often, she would wait for Devin to leave for the day before she came downstairs and got her pictures, but since that wasn’t an option today…

She was going to have to risk it and hope that Devin took pity on her if he caught her.

“He’s going to kill me,” Scott said, cursing under his breath as he pushed her towards the latest creations.

“You’ll be fine,” Charlie murmured absently as she took a bite of her donut as she took in the selection in front of her, taking in every detail as she tried to decide which one she should feature on the website when a large tan hand grabbed hold of the armrest of her chair and slowly turned her so that she was facing Devin, who she’d like to point out looked really pissed as he leaned forward so that there was really no missing that fact.

When he continued to glare at her, she held up the last bite of jelly donut for him. “Look, I saved you the best bite,” Charlie said with a hopeful smile. Narrowing his eyes on her, Devin leaned forward and took the last bite out of her hand with his teeth and finished it off all while glaring at her.

“I needed pictures for the website,” she pointed out, cleared her throat, and gestured towards all the beautiful furniture that his men had finished this week.

When he began pushing her back towards the office that he’d told her not to leave, she nervously licked her lips and said, “I was careful?”

When he continued to glare, she shifted nervously in her chair, somehow resisted the urge to look over her shoulder and said, “I still need pictures for the website,” which was met with a narrowing of his eyes and her decision to shut up.

That was followed by pushing her inside his office, giving her a look that told her exactly what would happen if she left the office again before he left, closing the door behind him and leaving her sitting there, deciding that she’d ask him about the pictures later.

Chapter 15

“Are we going to talk about it?” T.J. asked as Devin stood there, watching as Charlie smiled at something that Dustin was showing her while Abbi carried over another small box for Charlie so that she could unpack.

“There’s nothing to talk about,” Devin said as he forced himself to look away and focus on the bureau that he was supposed to be building.

“You don’t think letting the woman that you’re in love with move in with you is something that we should discuss?” T.J. asked conversationally as Devin grabbed a piece of sandpaper and carefully ran it over the edge of the secret drawer that he was working on.

“Drop it,” Devin said as he found himself glancing towards his office again.

“Okay. Then maybe we should discuss moving her into your office?” T.J. asked as Devin