Blue Collar Romeo by Jenny Gardiner

Author:Jenny Gardiner [Gardiner, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenny Gardiner Books
Published: 2017-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Well, shoot,” Gisele muttered as she slipped along the street approaching her office, almost landing on her butt. All I wanted was a nice warm muffin and a hot cup of coffee and now I’m starting my day instead with a cold blast of like-it-or-not. Not to mention what was likely a particularly warm bun attached to that Wretched Romeo. The last thing she could let herself think about was what his buns felt like in her hands, so she banished that thought to the no-man’s land section of her brain, along with all other foolish initial impressions of Tomasso Romeo that turned out to be completely wrong. What a bummer.

Gisele tried to divert to a coffee shop in the lobby of her building, but the line was twenty deep and there was no way she could make it by seven if she attempted that. Her stomach growled and her brain silently did as well. She lined up with the masses to catch the next elevator and mercifully wedged herself in right as the doors began to close on the first available lift. For the entire thirty-eight floors up, she stood stiff like a soldier, arms pressed to her body, and packed in to tightly she could barely breathe.

The elevator opened and belched her and several others out into her office. As she shook out her limbs, she could hear her boss, Sophie Pellegrino shouting in the next room.

“Let’s go, people, we don’t have all day,” she said, clapping her hands. Gisele peeled off her coat and looked at the clock on the wall: five minutes after seven. Of course it was.

“You’re late,” Sophie said as Gisele turned the corner. “What part of ‘be on time’ did you not understand?”

Gisele rolled her eyes. It helped that her boss was one of her best friends. “I’m sorry, Soph,” she said. “It’s been one of those days.” She shook her head. “Actually, it’s been way worse than one of those days. It’s been a shit sandwich kind of day and I’ve barely taken a bite of the thing before spitting it out, so I’m not holding my breath for the rest of the day to get much better.”

Sophie crossed her arms and lifted her brow. “I can’t begin to imagine what has happened to make you, my cheerful, perennial glass-half-full production assistant, show up sounding so miserable. Did a clown arrive on your doorstep, threatening to abduct you?”

“Worse, if you can imagine. And I have a deathly fear of clowns.”

Sophie tapped her fingernail on her arm. “Do tell.”

“So you remember I told you about the Italian Stallion, right?”

Sophie nodded. “The man who was packing—”

“Shhh!” Gisele held her finger up to her lips. “Not like I want to advertise this to the whole office.”

“So he had a big dick! That’s a good thing. You should shout that to the world.”

“Stop! Besides, I know nothing about the size of his—” Gisele crossed her fingers behind her back because, well, she didn’t want to get struck down by lightning for that little white lie.

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