Chapter 19

AUSTIN.

I’d been looking at the clock for some time, waiting for the forty-five minutes to end so I could clock out. Today was my last day for this week, and I would be back on Monday on the same shift. So far, everything here is going great.

Since I was a newbie here, I was always the one tasked with assisting customers who needed a little help but didn’t really need a personal trainer. And it seemed like there was always a female who needed help.

Only for my co-workers to tell me that most who needed help were regulars already and knew what they were doing.

So yes, they obviously wanted my attention. Well, I was used to that and had always loved being the center of it, but for some reason, I just found myself not enjoying the attention as I usually do.

I was sitting in one of the lounging chairs in front of the reception desk when I saw a figure in a green dress through the adjacent mirror. I stood up and left the man I was in conversation with. I didn’t even offer an explanat