Body Movers by Stephanie Bond

Author:Stephanie Bond [Bond, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Action Adventure Mystery & Detective, Humour, Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 9780778326687
Google: UDtqk5frCZsC
Amazon: 0778326683
Barnesnoble: 0778326683
Goodreads: 1176884
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2005-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

19

T he woman behind the counter sucked her teeth. “Name?”

“Wesley Wren. I’m here to see—” He checked the slip of paper he held. “E. Jones.”The woman tapped on a computer keyboard. “Spell the name.”

“J-O-N-E-S.”

Eye roll. “I meant your name, hotshot.”

“Oh. W-R-E-N.”

“Date of birth?”

He told her. More tapping ensued, then the woman jerked her thumb to the left. “Down the hall, second door on the right. Knock before you go in.”

He did as he was told, but dread cramped his intestines. With his luck, his probation officer would be one of those hard-ass military types with a crew cut and ripped arms, bent on scaring his charges straight. Wesley stopped at the door and knocked.

“Come in,” a muffled voice sounded.

He opened the door and stared at the back of his probation officer—all five foot and ten willowy inches of her.

“Park it,” she said over her shoulder as she walked her fingers through hanging files in a cabinet drawer.

Wesley settled into a chair facing the desk and busied himself studying the shapely E. Jones’s rear end, encased in snug khaki-colored pants. No crew cut here—instead, glossy auburn hair was twisted in a knot on the back of her head and secured with a pencil stuck down through it. But her arms were ripped—lean and tanned beneath the short-sleeve yellow shirt she wore. He could only hope that her front was as hot as her back.

She whirled around and pinned him to the chair with blazing green eyes. Damn, she was…gorgeous.

“What’s your name?” she barked, dropping into the chair behind her desk.

Name? “Uh, Wesley,” he stammered. “Wesley Wren.” He leaned forward and handed her the slip of paper that he’d received in the mail.

She glanced at the paper, then sifted through a stack of folders on her desk and pulled one from the pile. She didn’t look up, but Wesley didn’t mind because it allowed him to study her unobserved. She looked to be in her mid-twenties, and she moved like a cat, with no wasted motion. Her lashes were dark and incredibly long, her nose petite, her mouth full and pink, although it was at the moment tightened in a disapproving little bow.

“So, Mr. Wren,” she said without looking up, “you’re a bad computer hacker.”

He bristled. “I got in, didn’t I?”

“Yes, and you got caught.” She sat back in her chair and assessed him with narrowed eyes. “You’re what, eighteen?”

“Nineteen,” he said, sitting straighter.

She seemed unimpressed. “Okay, I’m supposed to help you get a job.”

“I already got a job,” he was glad to report.

“Where?”

“It’s not in a location. I’m a body mover.”

“Excuse me?”

“I work with a guy who contracts with the morgue for body retrieval.”

She pursed her pink mouth and nodded. “It’s a niche. But I’ll need a note from your employer, or a paycheck stub.”

“Okay.”

“And you need to set up a payment schedule with the court to pay your five-thousand-dollar fine.”

He winced. “How will that work?”

“Make regular payments to the court cashier, with a check or money order, preferably every week.”

Another weekly payment.

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