"Good morning, Tessa." A hand shot into her field of vision and waved in front of her face. She seemed to have spaced out again.
Slowly she turned around, knowing fully well who stood behind her.
"Hello, Jem." She greeted the brightly smiling boy. She stole a glance around the room trying to decipher if anyone found it particularly strange that he greeted her so overenthusiastically. But all the eyes she met just smiled genuinely back at her.
"So how's it going? I hope you find in rather pleasuring to work at our company." How did he manage to sound so professional and polite while making her face blush. Pleasuring indeed."Everything is quite fine." She answered mocking his tone. Which only made his smile broaden.
"Well, that does sound great." They stared at each other. Unable to look away. Cast in their own weird spell.
Realizing they made no sense at all, Tessa shook her head.
"Don't you have important things that are in need of your attention?" She asked. Not trusting herself to act reasonable if this kept going.
"Do you want to get rid of me?" His smile turned wicked. The pale eyes glinting.
"Well, Mr Carstairs - "
"Are you afraid you won't be able to resist me if you are exposed to my charms any longer?"
Tessa's mouth fell open. Did he seriously just say that? Did her dashingly handsome boss just openly flirt with her?"Gotcha!" He said, very un-Jem like. Then he winked.
Tessa didn't know how to respond to that.
"By the way you are going to meet Will the day after tomorrow. ", Jem said as if nothing had happened.
"He's going on a work related trip tonight, I'm afraid. But I bet he'll be pleased to meet you on Friday."
"Bet Mr Herondale won't be as pleased to meet me as you are." She muttered. When she realized what she'd just said she gasped.
The wicked glint had returned into his eyes as they found hers again.
"We'll see, Tessa. We'll see."