Chapter 220: Introvert Relaxation Time

"Are you sure I can't use something to con you into coming?" Aspen asks as Marissa yells in the background. I can't hear it from my end, but I'm sure what she said was Marissa-ish.

I twist a piece of hair around my finger and lean back on the couch. "No, but you have fun. It's been a long day and I need to relax."

"Yeah, I bet you need to relax. With the hot guy you've got staying with you." Aspen laughs and keeps gasping for air between laughter for another good minute before she's able to gain control of herself. "How is work? Does anyone even notice I'm gone?"

"Of course, they do." Unfortunately, it's not necessarily the way Aspen probably hopes. I have no plans of telling her how a bunch of our coworkers had a pool going on how long the new billionaire's wife would make it before she quit. Jesse Pervis from the warehouse made over a grand.

"Guess who they fired?" I ask to steer the question away.

"Who?"