Kell shook his head, laughing. “I knew there was only one girl who could tear his attention away from his guitar.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Didn’t you think it was too much of a coincidence that Jayce’s internet crush got a job at his music label?”
I frowned. “Are you telling me it wasn’t?”
“How did you hear about this internship?”
“One of my followers messaged me.”
Kell grinned, silent and waiting. It clicked.
“That was you?”
“That was me.” He nodded triumphantly. “Jayce only mentioned your name a couple times because we kept on ragging on him for being a creepy stalker. We told him the girl behind the keyboard was probably a fifty-year-old man in grungy sweatpants.”
“I did wear sweatpants while writing my reviews a lot of the time,” I joked weakly.
“I remembered, though. When Deena told me she was looking to hire a social media person, I couldn’t think of anyone better.”
I was dismayed. “So I only got the job because of you?”
“No! Not at all. You got the job on your own merits, I just made you aware of the opportunity. Deena made the final call. She had no idea about my evil scheme.”
I couldn’t believe Kell had gone through all that trouble just to play matchmaker.
“So Jayce knows now, huh? How long did it take him to figure it out?”
“Not long, I guess.”
“So, I have to ask. If you and Jayce had athing—”he raised his fingers in air quotes, “then what’s with you and that producer guy?”
“I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not like that at all. First of all,hekissedme. Second, Jayce and I both decided we couldn’t be together. There would just be too much trouble if people found out.”
Kell frowned, but nodded for me to go on.
“I’ve actually been talking to that producer online for almost a year. I know him by his online name, Neil. We’d never met in person and didn’t know who the other was when we first starting working together. Actually,” I said ruefully, “I kind of thought he was an ass at first.”
“He is.”
“Apparently he’s working on it.” I rolled my eyes. “I had posted something online and he realized who I was. Then he just came up to me and kissed me out of the blue.”
“People saw you on a date with him. You went out for drinks.”
“Yeah.” I looked down at my hands, fidgeting. I felt like I was just making excuse after excuse. “After Jayce and I decided nothing could happen between us, Neil and I decided to give it a go. Neil asked about Jayce, but I told him it was over. We went on that one date, but never managed to get together again. He was always too busy, could never make time for me. I decided to just end it with him before it got too serious. Both of us are here for work, anyway. He’s so dedicated to his job, he’s got a one-track mind. It would have been nice if we could have made it work, but—” I shrugged. “That’s the situation.”
“So you’re with neither of them?”
“I’m one hundred percent single. Why, you want to ask me out next?”
“Do the both of them know that?”
“Huh?”
“Each of them probably thinks you’re with the other.”
I blinked at him, taken aback.
