Twigging I wasn’t going to take the bait, she shrugged. “Suit yourself. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
She breezed past me, then used the trolley to push open the doors back out onto the shop floor with a great deal more force than was necessary.
Now it was my turn to sigh. All I’d been trying to do was remain impartial, and now I’d managed to piss off the one person who could actually have been an ally. And, if I’d been right about the whole lesbian thing, who knew what could have happened after the job was finished? I had no idea what she thought about me, but I definitely would have been up for spending more time with her. She was gorgeous.
I allowed myself a few moments of muttering and swearing, then arranged my face into a smile and hurried after Jacqueline. Sod it—I’d focus on
