A Bite of Christmas Cheer by Thea Dane

Author:Thea Dane [Dane, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thea Dane
Published: 2019-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Two work nights went by after Violetta experienced Lee’s kiss. On the third night, she sat in her office at a quarter to four in the morning. It was almost time to go home for the day. She organized Lee’s schedule for the next week and a half. He was supposed to be in and out of the office for a couple nights. He had to be at work early for a few late afternoon appointments and press interviews around town.

She booked the reservations for his dinners and screened the questions for his interviews, but he told her in an email that he intended to make his trips solo. She wondered if he was having second thoughts and decided to distance himself from her because of the kiss under the mistletoe.

More than one kiss. What took place at her apartment after the dinner, his hands on her skin, made her want to feel him inside her body. Violetta exhaled, realizing she held her breath captive in her lungs. Her office desktop modem hummed in the background as she became aware that she stared at the generic field landscape on the screensaver.

“Ahem.”

She turned to see the receptionist standing at the door. “Yes?”

“Hope I’m not disturbing you. You seemed like you were really concentrating.”

Violetta blinked. The afterimage of the screensaver remained in her eyes. “No, I was doing one of those five minute office meditations you talked about the other day in the break room.”

The receptionist grinned. “They’re the best, aren’t they? So calming. Anyway, I stopped by to ask if I could put in a suggestion for the office Christmas party.”

“There’s an office Christmas party?”

“Yes. I mean, it’s not officially sanctioned by Mr. Desmond, but Katrin always took it upon herself to put it together for the staff.”

So now the mantle was being passed onto her. Violetta remembered to maintain a pleasant smile. “Sounds like she started a tradition.”

“She made it so much fun. Listen, I know you’re new, so the staff and I thought we would help you by coming up with some ideas.” The receptionist quickly raised her hands in defense. “Not like you don’t know how to plan. We can see you’re really busy with the fundraising gala and didn’t want to overwhelm you.”

“Not at all.” Violetta wished she could recruit the office staff for the fundraiser so she could focus on why she was really at Desmond Industries. She took a pen from the cup at her desk and found a notepad in the drawer. “What are your ideas?”

She wrote down the suggestions the receptionist listed, ranging from catered crab cakes from the seafood restaurant down the street to a Christmas karaoke. Five minutes later, she put down her pen. “I’ll look into these ideas. Anything else?”

“Ah.” The receptionist snapped her fingers. “The Christmas tree in the lobby is nice, but we wanted to add mistletoe in for the party.”

“Mistletoe in an office? This isn’t the sixties. That’s a sexual harassment case waiting to happen.”

The receptionist gawked at her.

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