Chapter 252: A Best Friend's Taunts

Jarrod's POV:

Three weeks on from that first lunch together and she is still visiting Thorpe's each day.

I join her more often than not, and when I can't, I always apologise with a smile that I can only hope shows her how disappointed I am not to be able to enjoy her company.

Jack has asked me about her but I merely shook him off, ignoring his questions and when he continued to press it I told him to get stuffed.

That just made his teasing worse.

I'm sitting in the back office at Thorpe's, going through the manager's health and safety documents for November. I like to double check everything myself. I want to know that they are all doing their jobs right. I won't be caught out by EHO popping in the door with their white coats to check up on us. I will not lose my five-star rating.

Jack is sat on his desk trying to get my attention. It's eight in the morning, and yet the restaurant outside of our office is already busy. I want to get this finished before Tallulah comes in.