The Gargoyle from General Management (Claws & Cubicles, #3)

by Kate Prior

I blink and realize that everyone grouped up pretty quickly while I was standing around looking for a way out. If that’s not a summary of my entire life, I don’t know what is.

Maybe I should let Vlad know that I'm the sort of person who needs to recharge her social battery with a true crime podcast for the next ten hours after talking to one person for more than ten minutes.

His eyes linger over me, in a way I'm not prepared for. “I’d like you to show me how far the need for a little, shiny sticker goes.”

Being weird seems to have been the one thing that's really ended up working for me, anyway. And if there's a better way to express how deeply devoted and loving you feel towards someone than being weird in his general direction, well, then, I wouldn't know about it.