Chapter 22

Katarina

The last thing I expected was for Jerome to sit and wait for me while I worked. We had taken an hour to tour around the city, and had spent the remaining time in a coffee shop, chatting and learning more about each other.

As I had expected, Jerome was a businessman, a successful man at that. I had wanted to ask him if he knew about Kylan Anderson, but decided against it. There was no need to bring up my past now, I was doing my best to run away from it, so bringing it up would do me more harm than good.

"Are you sure you can wait, my shift doesn't end until four." I reminded Jerome for the umpteenth time, but he didn't seem like he was going to change his mind anytime soon.

"I said not to worry, didn't I? I'm off work today, I really have nothing better to do other than this. So don't worry about me, just focus on doing your work, and I'll sit here and wait for you." He replied with a bright smile.

It was easy for him to say, but concentrating on work while he was sitting