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the letter on her desk like it wasn’t one of the most exciting things she’d ever received and turned back to her computer, hoping Tyler quickly took the hint. Which he did.
    Quinn waited until he returned to his cubicle and set to work before grabbing her purse and heading toward Rita’s office.
Let the games begin.
    Quinn felt her confidence slip with each step. She reached the closed door and proceeded to stare at it for a moment. “Come on, Quinn,” she whispered to herself. “Just get it over with.” Finally she straightened her spine, lifted her head, brought her hand up to the door, and knocked firmly.
    An audible groan sounded through the door. “What is it?”
    Quinn took a deep breath and pushed open the door.
    Rita was hunkered over her desk, her designer glasses dangling from one hand as she sorted through the mounds of papers on her desk.
    â€œUh, I’m sorry to disturb you, Rita, but I—”
    â€œIf you were really sorry, you wouldn’t be disturbing me in the first place.”
    â€œOh, yeah, I’m really sorry.”
Shit.
“I just wanted to ask . . .” Quinn let out an incredibly bad attempt at a cough.
God, I really can’t lie for shit.
“I’m not feeling so well. I need to use half of a sick day.”
    Rita finally looked up at Quinn, eyebrows raised, but she didn’t say anything.
    â€œI just wanted to let you know. I’ll take some work home with me.”
    Rita continued to stare.
    â€œAnd I can log on from home and answer some e-mails.”
    â€œQuinn?”
    â€œYes?”
    â€œCan this conversation be over?”
    Quinn audibly exhaled. “Yes. Thank you, Rita. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
    Rita waved her glasses toward Quinn, a gesture more of dismissal than farewell. Quinn gently closed the door as she left, thinking that hadn’t been so bad.
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    Tim was oddly nervous. He was usually incredibly calm, completely unflappable. But he couldn’t deny the slight flutter in his stomach as he waited for Quinn on the street directly outside her office building. He wasn’t sure going all “007” with the letter was the right way to play their first excursion together, but the idea was too fun not to see through once he’d thought of it. He wanted to make this as fulfilling an experience for Quinn as he could.
    Finally, almost fifteen minutes after he’d seen the messenger exit the building, he saw Quinn walk out and scan the crowd in front of her. When her eyes fell on him, she immediately flashed him a bright smile. He couldn’t help but return it.
    She walked briskly toward him. “I was expecting a car waiting to sweep me away to a secret rendezvous point.”
    Tim laughed. “Damn. I knew I forgot something.”
    â€œEh, it’s okay.” Then she winked at him, and he felt his pulse hammer at every vital point in his body. “So what are we doing?”
    â€œJust follow me, young grasshopper. I will show you the way.” Tim wrapped his arm around her shoulder. It was a friendly gesture—something he would do to a buddy without hesitation. But the
reason
he did it couldn’t have been more different. He wanted to touch Quinn, to know what she felt like in his arms, even if it didn’t mean what he wished it did. “So what’d you tell them to get out of there?”
    â€œThat I contracted that chikungunya virus like Lindsay Lohan and I’m highly contagious.”
    â€œChicken
what
?” Tim couldn’t help looking at her like she was crazy, because in that moment, he kind of thought she might be.
    â€œOr more simply, I said I didn’t feel well and was taking half a sick day.” They both laughed and continued to their destination.
    He led her to a small convenience store three blocks from her office. He’d arrived early, since the restaurant was closed