Baiting the Maid of Honor by Tessa Bailey

Author:Tessa Bailey [Bailey, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Military, Series, cop, bad boy, Entangled Publishing, Brazen, line of duty, erotic, kristen ashley, unfixable, contemporary romance
ISBN: 9781622667260
Amazon: B00K9NWRHW
Barnesnoble: B00K9NWRHW
Goodreads: 18744922
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Julie heaved the entire stack of newspapers onto the front desk and smiled at the dumbfounded attendant. “I’d like to buy all of them, please.”

The young man studied her for a second, as if looking for signs of mental illness, then shrugged. Julie felt Reed come up behind her just as he finished counting the newspapers. She pulled a twenty-dollar bill from her skirt pocket and laid it on the counter, giving the young man her best smile as she did so. To her left, Reed sighed loudly. She ignored him.

“You wouldn’t happen to have any more in the back, would you, sugar? I’m in a bit of a pinch, you see. I’ve organized a papier-mâché craft hour for the children attending the wedding. Would you believe I went and forgot to bring newspaper? The main ingredient. Sometimes I think I’d forget my feet if I didn’t need them to walk. How long have you been working here? If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say quite a while. You’ve got an air of confidence about you. Yes sir, you do. My Aunt Sylvie always said that a confident man writes his own ticket in this world. Would you mind checking on those newspapers, darlin’? Bless your heart.”

As the young man turned, looking more than a little thunderstruck, toward the back office, Reed leaned over and spoke quietly in her ear. She tried unsuccessfully to ignore the hot shiver that ran down her spine. Try as she might, nothing could stop him from affecting her. She’d wanted him on the mountain to a stunning degree, had barely managed to hold back. “You can try to prevent me from getting a newspaper, but what about your bell? You still need one to—”

Without batting an eyelash, Julie slipped the front desk bell into her tote bag. Ignoring Reed’s look of shocked reproach, she tucked a stack of newspapers under each arm and took off in the direction of Starbucks, where Kady was waiting to crown the winner. She glanced back to find Reed breaking into a jog after her and she couldn’t help but laugh. The look on his face suggested he hated losing just as much as she did. Deciding the newspapers were weighing her down, she set them on a high table and made a break for it. Even if he picked up one of the papers and tried to catch her, Starbucks was so close that he’d never catch—

The optimistic thought died in its inception when two strong arms snagged her around the middle, catching her in mid-stride. Even if she hadn’t caught his oaky sent, the wide chest she was pulled back against would have told her it was Reed. Before Julie could protest, he pulled her from the lobby into an adjacent hallway, which led to a series of first-floor rooms. As the sounds of people and rolling luggage faded away, their labored breathing was the only sound that remained. He let her drop to her feet and pushed her against the wall.

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