Avoiding Commitment (Avoiding #1)(156)

He nodded his head a few times. "You don't have to try and play me like this Lex. I know you, and I know what's been going on."

"Then please fill me in, because I have no idea what you're talking about," she said walking to the front of his desk and taking a seat in one of the client chairs. She crossed her arms and legs simultaneously and waited for another outrageous response from him.

"You think I don't know that you guys met before this?"

"Of course we met before this. I told you that as soon as I saw him at the Country Club that we met there when I came up here with Jennifer," she told him still confused as to where this was going.

"Right that was a pretty good act. When did you become such a good liar Lexi?"

"If you tell me what I'm lying about I might know, because as far as I could tell you are the only good liar in the room."

"Come on Lexi," he cried. "Now I didn't think you would ever play me like this, but I can tell that you are now. How long have you guys been together? Has it been since New York?" he asked placing his hands on the desk and leaning forward towards her.

"We're not together," she stuttered in disbelief.

"Oh right you don't do the commitment thing. Have you just been f**king?"

"Excuse me, I'm just going to pass right over the very ridiculous accusation that Ramsey and I have been f**king," Lexi said her face clouding over only slightly at the thought that she had almost done just that last night. But she couldn't feel too bad about it she had been in a terrible state of mind thanks to Jack, and she hadn't gone through with it anyway. "And step right up to the plate and take the hypocritical route, jackass."

Jack stumbled a step as he walked around the corner of her desk. He glanced up at her cheeky comment in surprise. "Whatever Lexi. I know that you know Ramsey from New York. And whether you're f**king or not I know you guys have been together. I saw you kiss at this party. I saw it again last night. I'm not stupid alright. I can tell that there is something going on between you too."

Lexi stared at him in awe. So that was why he had been so angry and rough with her the night before. He had somehow deluded himself into believing that she and Ramsey were together. It didn't make sense to her, but she figured if he looked at it from only one side it might look like that. However, that didn't explain why he thought she had met Ramsey in New York. "What do you mean I know him from New York?"

"So you don't deny that you and Ramsey have something going on?" he asked ignoring her question.

"We don't have anything going on, Jesus. We did kiss, but we're not together. I don't even understand how you could think that."

"I don't think that. I know that something is going on between ya'll. You've just been f**king with my mind since you got here."

"Excuse me? You're the one who is flip-flopping the whole goddamned time I've been here. You come home early to see me. Then you're an ass**le to me at Ramsey's party. Then you want to be with me again and you're going to break things off with Bekah. After that we have sex and you're just another ass**le all over again. What the f**k Jack?" she asked demanding his attention.

"It's only because you've been playing me the whole time that I keep changing," he told her his blue eyes stormy.

"I have not been playing you!" she yelled at him. "And I don't know Ramsey from anywhere."

Jack laughed again. "You're good. You know that?" Lexi sighed exasperated. "You and Ramsey met in the club the night we got back together in New York."

Lexi glanced at him in surprise. Her heart raced in her chest at the faint memory of a night long ago. She had met someone in that club. In fact, she had almost gone home with that guy. A series of flashbacks took over her mind.

A man in an Armani suit buying her drinks and barely glancing at Chyna as he offered to take Lexi home. A faint memory of Ramsey saying they had met somewhere previously just before they kissed on his balcony. The way he programmed her number into his phone as if he already had it in there. Ramsey somehow knowing she didn't drink Jack Daniels or Sex on the Beach. How familiar his lack of personal space felt. The way he had touched her last night as if he had been waiting to do that for much longer than the week he had known her.

Her stomach plummeted shock radiating out of every pore. Could Ramsey be the elusive Armani Guy? She had lost all the numbers programmed into her phone so when Ramsey had given her his number it wouldn't already be in there. He had known all along and he hadn't mentioned it to her.

"See you can't even deny it," he said shaking his head as if he hadn't really believed it himself until she had just confirmed it.

"How did you find out that I'd met him?" she asked.

"I remember Chyna talking to you about some guy from Armani calling you when we were together. I knew you were at the club where Ramsey was that night, because I was the one he was supposed to interview." Lexi's heart jumped again. Jack had been there that night. In fact, when she had seen a guy that looked like him, that actually could have been him. She couldn't believe all of this. "I know you've been seeing each other since then. He told me this woman he met once in New York a couple weeks ago. He didn't even know he was talking about you, and, honestly, until I saw the two of you together last night I wasn't entirely sure myself."