A Ring for Rosie by Maggie Wells

Author:Maggie Wells [Wells, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-02-09T21:53:16+00:00

Chapter 9

The bouquet was enormous. Every bit as ostentatious as a girl could ask for in a fake offering of adoration, and much more. The damn thing ate up one full third of Trident Security’s reception desk, and Rosie couldn’t be more pleased.

When she messaged Manuel through Mate.com to pile on the post-fake-date guilt, he confessed his ploy was to make Lina, the Leather and Lace lover, jealous. His message was apologetic enough Rosie felt comfortable asking him for restitution.

And Manuel had delivered. Big time.

He sent a splashy array of roses and lilies. The bouquet stomped all over the line of ‘I think I like you,’ but stopped shy of full-on funeral arrangement. And the best part: The enclosed message, filled with flowery declarations about her beauty and wit, was written in Spanish.

She’d seen James give the arrangement the stink eye more than once, and she’d left the card on its plastic prongs. The scrap of paper called him the moment she stepped away from her desk. Given the snarl he’d worn when he realized the message was written in Spanish, she’d bet he’d be using an online translator before she even hit the salad bar.

The phone rang and she pressed the button on her headset. “Trident Security, how may we help you?”

“What did you do?” Georgie demanded without preamble.

“Excuse me?” Rosie tried to be cool, but keeping the grin out of her voice proved impossible.

“Mike tells me someone had a hundred bucks worth of flowers delivered this morning. Please tell me you did not send them to yourself.”

“I did not send them to myself,” Rosie repeated dutifully.

“Did Charlie send them?”

Rosie cringed when she heard the expectant note in her friend’s voice. “No, Charlie didn’t send them.” She turned her back to James’s office door and cupped her hand around the mouthpiece so she wouldn’t be overheard. “I messaged Manuel, the jerk from the karaoke bar, and told him I thought he’d made a really slimy move. He felt really bad about using me to get this girlfriend back, I gave him an opportunity to make it up to me.”

Georgie actually clapped her hands. “Oh, my God, you are a genius! Mike says the card is written in Spanish and making them all crazy. What did he say?”

“Oh, some corny thing about being as beautiful as the rose and sweet as a lily,” Rosie answered, speaking low and soft into the receiver.

“You know, James is totally going to Internet translate the card the minute you leave for lunch,” Georgie informed her.

“I’m counting on it.”

“I amend my earlier statement. You are an evil genius.”

“Thank you. I’m pretty proud of me, too.”

“I have a fairly light day today. Any chance you can take a late lunch and go shopping? It will only make him crazier if you don’t leave the office until two,” she added with a gleeful laugh.

“Sure, I can take a later lunch,” Rosie replied. “Hell, I can pretty much walk out of here whenever I feel the urge these days.

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