"Do you always work this late?" he asked as he waited for her to lock the laboratory.
It was already three-forty-five in the morning. Jess had to recheck her data multiple times before she got satisfied and call it a day.
"Let me take you home," he said, trying to start a conversation. He would love to find out where she lives. Antonio hasn't gotten back to him with the information he was asking about Jess.
"I brought my car, and my house is just a few minutes away from here. You don't have to worry about my hand. I took a painkiller. It won't get in the way of my driving."
She doesn't want Noah to find out where she lives. Luke and the school registrar are the ones who know her address. And she intended to keep it that way. She hates it when people get into her personal space.
Thus, she shot down every possible reason he would use to offer her a ride home.
"Well then, if I can't take you home. Let's go out for dinner sometime."
