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Prologue

Hey, I like your personality

Me-Thanks, it’s a disorder

Me- when I’ to make friends

Rowen

“Theo!” I smiled as I took the seat across froht that you orking!”

It was a co into him, but I couldn’t say that I was upset

In fact, I was rather excited

It wasn’t often that I saw him out

He was a busy man and most of the time when I invited him out somewhere, he said no

It was alork-related, though, so I understood

Theo looked up, and instead of the welco smile I expected, there was a frown

“Rowen,” he said, looking confused “What are you doing here?”

I’d ore, Texas He’d actually had a thing for my sister, Katy My sister had dated hione any further than a few dates My sister had gone through a lot of shitty relationships, her one before Theo having been the worse So, when Theo had coht frame of mind

Then, Logan, her now husband, had co Theo to finally see that Katy wasn’t the one for him

Me, on the other hand?

I’d always had a thing for Theo

It was a pain in the ass, too

Iup on hi my sister’s cast-off?

But… I couldn’t help the way it made me feel

I frowned “I saw you sitting here, and I thought I’d coues to arrive A?”

He was quick to shake his head

“No, actually,” he said “I’ a… friend”

I blinked, then felt so in the pit of my stomach start to churn

“Oh?” I said, feeling hten

He cleared his throat “Yeah, it was a last-…”

“Theo, you made it!”

I blinked and turned my head to see Shondra, a woman that worked with me

Shondra, the wos to me, inside and outside of work, to make me look bad