CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT – A DOUBLE DATE OFFER

"Months? And he didn't say a word?" "Just look at the two of them – you could cut that sexual tension with a knife!" "Oh, I knew there was a reason he's been strutting around here with that stupid grin on his face!" Jasmine couldn't help but throw her head back with a peal of laughter at the unrestrained pandemonium unfolding around them. Trust Gordon's colleagues to create such a spectacle over his newfound relationship status. "You weren't kidding about that gossip mill, were you?" she remarked wryly, nudging Gordon's side with a playful elbow. Gordon could only shake his head in a mixture of amusement and mild exasperation as the pandemonium surrounding their arrival showed no signs of abating. He should have known that introducing Jasmine to the incorrigible rumor mill that was his workplace would be akin to tossing a lit match into a powder keg. "You think this is bad?" he murmured conspiratorially, bending to press his lips against the inviting curve of Jasmine's ear. "Just