I snickered. “Preach.”
I quickly picked up my desk phone. “Maggie?”
She paused. “How did you know it was me?”
“Jackson, the guard at the front desk, said you’ve been calling to try and get me all day. Are you okay?”
“All day?”
I furrowed my brow. “Yeah. He said you’d been calling all day.”
Jackson mouthed to me from the door. “Everything okay?”
I shrugged at him as Maggie spoke. “No, this is the first time I’ve called.”
I put her on speakerphone and dropped it back into the receiver. “Tell me what you just said again.”
Maggie cleared her throat. “This is the first time I’m calling. I mean, I’ve called and hung up a few times because I’m an idiot. But I haven’t left any messages.”
Jackson furrowed his brow. “You sure about that, Miss Loren?”
“Positive,” Maggie said.
I scratched my head. “Must’ve been a mix-up then. Are you okay, though?”
“Can you take me off speakerphone, please? This is kind of private?”
Jackson waved at me. “Have a nice evening, you two.”
I nodded. “You too, Jay.”
“Thanks again for giving me her number,” Mags said.
“Anytime,” Jay said as he backed out of my office.
I took her off speakerphone and picked the phone back up. “Sorry about that. Sometimes the front desk can get things confused.”
“You’re good. I just… wanted to talk, I guess.”
I leaned back in my chair. “You can call anytime. I’m surprised you didn’t try my cell, though.”
“I did. That’s what I called a few times. Not your place of work.”
I dug my phone out of my purse and saw I had four missed calls. “Damn it, I’m so sorry. I was on a date and--.”
“Ooooo! A date. Did you finally go out with--?”
I interrupted her before she spoke it into existence. “No, it wasn’t with him. It was with a doctor named Michael.”
“A doctor!” she squealed. “Even better. What’s he like? Is he hot? And rich?”
I snickered. “Well, right now he’s nonexistent. I sort of… jumped the gun on a few things.”
“You wanted sex and he didn’t.”
“I wantedkinkysex, and he didn’t.”
“Psh, good riddance, then. No use having sex if it’s boring sex.”
