Chapter 52 - Forty-Six
LEO
"Can you please stop shifting your position in every five seconds for fuck’s sake, Leo?" Ruth irritatedly snorts. "And stop twitching your face too. I am this"-He pinches his fingers-"close to smack it off your face."
"Shut up." I bark, equally irritated.
As if I am doing it on purpose. I went too far last night and now my whole body hurts like it’s being torn apart. Like someone have ripped my limbs off and then stitched them back to their sockets.
"So, why did you call me?" Ruth asks, clasping his hands over my desk as he leans forward a little, "You usually don’t call me in your office."
"Well, I wanted to have a nice peaceful talk with you." I copy his posture, "But we are collaborating with a Chinese client and the CEO is expected to come to the company today and there is a ton of work for me to do after one week of rest, so I couldn’t just slack off to meet with you and the thing I am about to discuss with you is just as important as my other works."
"And what can this be?" Ruth wonders out aloud, "I don’t have a good feeling about your ’important talk’."
"Me neither." I agree with him, "So how long do you plan to hook up with John without making anything official?"
I got straight to the point and with Ruth’s unwavering expression, he anticipated it when I said it was an important talk.
"There is nothing going on between us." Ruth shakes his head, "So what makes you think that I will make it official?"
"You are the one who is making the world think that you two are something, Ruth." I say pointedly, "What the fuck is a goodbye kiss when you guys aren’t even together? And it’s been more than two months since you guys started it. Ruth, tell me one thing honestly, have you ever slept with someone more than two nights?" I ask exasperatedly. "Even your longest date before this lasted two weeks, not to mention two months."