Love At First Glance (Love at Firsts #1)(46)

“How are you feeling, Have?” He asks, gently squeezing my shoulder.

“I’m alright, it’s a bit tricky to eat or drink, but I’ll manage.” I give him a soft smile because a full smile is just too painful.

“He won’t bother you again, trust me.” He smirks somewhat evilly.

“Uh, okay?” I look at him with what I am sure is a confused expression but he’s not looking at me anymore, he’s looking past me. I turn around and see that his eyes are locked on Alicia. Well that’s interesting. I grin at Matt and he winks at me.

“I should get back to my table. Call me if you need anything.” He kisses the top of my head and leaves us.

“Well, that was interesting.” Matt smirks at Alicia.

“What?” She looks at all of us in turn as we stare back at her with grins on our faces.

“You two were staring at each other like you wanted to devour each other. Do you know him?” I ask.

“No, but I wish I did. Even if he is a manwhore, he’s sex on legs.” She sighs dreamily.

“I feel you. That’s how it felt the first time I saw him an-”

“And then you realized you were madly in love with Spencer and quickly forgot about all about poor Valentine,” Matt interrupts.

"About time, Have." Alicia squeals.

“No, that was later on, but yeah, seeing how much Spencer was hurting was definitely an eye opener.” I explain and I hear Matt mutter something under his breath but I can’t quite catch what he says. “What was that?”

“Nothing.” He smiles and starts eating again. I really don’t understand men sometimes, well most of the time. Okay, I don’t understand men at all.

As we’re walking out, Spencer walks in with a tall, slim woman with bleached blonde hair. Well there goes my day.

“Spencer.” Matt greets him and does that weird man hugs thing men do. He whispers something in Spencer’s ear before they break apart. I have no idea what he said but considering Spencer looks at me with a confused expression on his face before sighing, I’m guessing it’s about me. Matt better not have told him what I admitted during lunch.

“Hey, Love.” Spencer smiles at me and kisses my cheek. “How do you feel?”

“I’m alright.” I shrug. I’m far from alright, but I’m not about to make a scene and declare my undying love for my best friend when he’s on a date.

“Your cheek?” He looks at it and brushes his fingers over the bruise.

“When you’re not touching it, it’s not too painful. Unless I try to eat, or drink, or talk, or smile.” I frown and wince. “Add frowning to that list.”

“Poor angel.” He hugs me and kisses my head.

“You two are cute together,” the blonde interjects, smiling at us. Weird.

“You are?” I ask her, wary of her.

“Marissa Jones. I’m his accountant.” She extends her hand for me to shake it. I do so as I slyly look at Spencer with a 'seriously' look on my face.

“You look more like a model than an accountant.” I raise my eyebrow at her.

“Thank you for the compliment. Although that probably means you think I’m a dumb blonde, but I really am an accountant.” She smiles not taking the slightest bit of offence and hands me a business card. “If you ever need help with taxes or anything call me, I’ll give you a discount considering the amount of work this one is giving me.” She jokes and I’m not sure how I should take it.

“What kind of work is he actually giving you?” I look at him raising my eyebrow, making it pretty much obvious that I don't like that they are hanging out together one bit, even if it is in a professional capacity.

“You know, switching businesses, his bills and sorting out what he buys for himself versus what he buys for his job. It’s complete nightmare.” She frowns and I smile politely. If she’s full of shit then she’s a good actress.

“Jealous?” Spencer whispers in my ear. I turn and glare at him.

“Piss off.” I mouth and he smirks. “Your best friend Valentine is here too by the way, you should join him and his date.” I snicker.

“Ugh, once again Cupid is interfering with my day.”

“I thought you two had an understanding?”

“Yes, to stay as far away from each other as possible.” He scoffs.

“Men…” Alicia, Marissa and I all say at the same time.

“Hey! Don’t gang up on us.” Matt pouts playfully.

“You brought it upon yourself.” I shrug.

“As fun as this is, we need to get back to work,” Alicia says earning groans from me and Matt.

“And we have some work to do.” Spencer says squeezing my hand.

“Not looking forward to it.” Marissa sighs dramatically.

“Unusual place to work.” I look between the two of them.

“I had to fit him into my schedule today and as this was an unplanned meeting I figured I might as well get lunch out of it.” She grins. I nod, still smiling politely but inside I’m an inferno. What the hell is wrong with me? I’m never like this!

“Dinner tonight?” Spencer asks me bringing me back to reality.

“Sure. Come over whenever you want.” I smile at him.