Chapter 6
I HEARD RAJAN CALL out my name as I was leaving work today. I thought for sure he would ask me how things were going with Kristen. That's a question I didn't want to answer, so I pretended not to hear him.
Then I heard his footsteps behind me, so I reluctantly turned as he offered a breathless, “Poppy! Wait up!”
Rajan held out a gigantic fruit platter.
“Do you want this?” he asked. “It's left over from that big brunch meeting in the conference room this morning. The clients ordered way too much food. Funny how all the pastries disappeared, though.”
I laughed and said, “Why am I not surprised?”
Was that mean? It was mean. But there's something about Rajan that makes me cattier than I want to be. I just can't help myself sometimes.
Rajan said, “I don't think anyone
