Page 20 of Love is So Mean

“I’m an investigative journalist.”

“Oh sure. I apologize, Enrique hasn’t told me much about you besides the fact that you’re a weather girl. I respect it.” I dismiss her as my eyes move to a very quiet Bailey. “Bailey, how’s the restaurant treating you, Chef?”

Before she can even answer me, Drew walks in.

“Your snack, Yasmi. I noticed you didn’t really eat breakfast. Do you want a latte or a tea?”

“Thank you, Drew. Get the tea from the room please.”

“Got it.”

He sets the plate of fruits and veggies with crackers down.

“He’s cute. fiancée?” Emily asks.

“No. Attentive employee.”

“They all seem very attentive.”

“Shouldn’t they be?”

Emily doesn’t say anything and Bailey continues on about her Chef experiences in the new restaurant she works in.

Chapter 12

Enrique

“She’s so fucking rude!” Emily rants the moment she walks back into the room. It’s obvious that my nap is over. I hoped with me working the better part of the day, she'd have space to relax after breakfast. Instead, she seems even more triggered.

“Who’s rude?”

Emily gives me a pointed look. “You know.”

I crack my neck because this is becoming exhausting. “I wouldn’t have asked if I did.”

“Yasmeena,” she sing-songs her name. “Who else? Surely you’ve noticed how she talks to people.”

“She has her moments but you’re not her employee…” I stop for a moment as my brain catches up. They must have been at the spa together. I didn’t give Emily the answers she wanted earlier and Yasmeena doesn’t talk for fun. I pinch the bridge of my nose because I’m pretty sure I know the answer to my upcoming question. “Emily, please tell me you didn’t do the investigative journalist thing and ask my BOSS a bunch of intrusive questions.”

My cell phone rings and Yasmeena’s name flashes on the screen.I swear, if Emily somehow got me fired…I pick up on the second ring.

“Yes, Yasmeena?” I say into the phone.

“Change the company event policy to spouses only.”

“Spouses only?”

“That’s what I said.”

“Why?”

“Your fiancée brought it to my attention that engaged people break up all the time so she’s right. It’s less of a mess that way. Only married couples at events now.”

I can feel a vein popping in my neck. Between Emily and Yasmeena, I’m on the road to an early heart attack.

“Um…wow.”

“Do you disagree?”