her dating anyone in the first place, so it worked for me. Then, when I found out she didn’t, I figured it was because she wasn’t interested.”
“So how’d she start dating Conner?”
I rub my palm over my face roughly, regret pooling in the pit of my stomach. “I convinced her to.”
Alexandra’s eyes widen in surprise, and she doesn’t even bother to cover it up. “I’m sorry…you convinced her to date Conner? The guy you were two seconds away from punching in the face? Why the hell would you do that?”
“Because I’m a dumbass?” I offer snarkily.
With a dry laugh, she quips, “Apparently, you are. Seriously, Levi. What were you thinking?”
“Conner was into Charlie, but she wasn’t interested, so he asked if I could put in a good word.”
“Why would he ask you?”
“Because he knew she would trust me,” I choke out.
“But why would you do it? Why would you put in a good word? Conner isn’t a bad guy, don’t get me wrong. But still. It doesn’t make any sense. What was in it for you?”
I catch Alexandra resting her elbows on the table and balancing her chin on her closed fist as she watches me curiously.
However, it doesn’t make it any easier to admit what an asshole I am. Running my tongue between my lips and the front of my teeth, I search for a response that doesn’t make me sound like the worst best friend alive. I can’t think of one.
After a few seconds, I scratch my jaw and spit out the truth. “Conner offered to back out of the contention for the job at the end of the internship if I convinced her to date him.”
Alexandra’s jaw drops. She doesn’t say a word. She simply stares at me with wide eyes.
Fidgeting with my collar, I snap, “I know! Okay? I know!”
“You’re almost as bad as Dex,” she mutters under her breath, though I don’t know what he has to do with my messed up situation.
However, the sound of Montague Enterprises’ CEO’s name piques my curiosity. “Dex, as in Dexter Truitt?”
“That’s the one. He full-on hid his identity from my little sister when they first started dating. It was an epic screw-up, and it took a hell of a lot of groveling. But he won her back. The question is, do you think you can win Charlie back?”
Sinking lower into my seat, a defeated laugh escapes me before I rub my face roughly.
“I have no idea where I would even start.”
“First, you need to find out if she has a thing for Conner,” she points out.
“I’m going to say yes since I walked in on them making out on my couch last night.”
“What?” she screeches.
“Oh. Conner and I are roommates,” I clarify, scoffing at how ludicrous the whole ordeal sounds. “He’d brought Charlie back to our place under the guise of watching a movie, though I’m pretty sure he was trying to sleep with her.” Bile floods my mouth at the thought.
“But, he didn’t?”
“Didn’t what?” I ask.
“Sleep with her?”
“Charlie says he didn’t even kiss her again after I walked in on them, and Conner said she turned into an ice queen as soon as I left. That’s the part you witnessed at my desk a few minutes ago,” I explain, my blood beginning to boil as the memory resurfaces.
She nods her understanding before tapping her forefinger against her pursed lips. I can almost see the wheels turning in her head as she assesses the information I’ve just gifted her with.
“Okay, so she didn’t sleep with him, and she acted uninterested as soon as you caught her kissing Conner. Interesting. So when was the last time you spoke with her? You said she told you that she didn’t kiss him after you walked in?”
“Yeah.” I sigh. “I didn’t know where to go after interrupting them, so I went to her place and turned on Netflix. When she showed up a couple of hours later, I’d built up in my head all the dirty shit she’d done with Conner and was pissed.”
“What did you do?” she murmurs in a quiet voice. I can see it in her eyes. She already knows I screwed up, but she wants to hear how. I don’t know why I’m telling her this. I’m probably going to get fired for being an epic asshole.
There’s just something about Alexandra, though. Whether it’s her open expression or her sage wisdom, I don’t know, but it’s just enough to get me to come clean.
“I yelled at her,” I