Broken in Texas by Sandy Appleyard

Author:Sandy Appleyard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: hea, steamy romance, series romance, office romance, cowboy romance, romance series, hea romance, romance hea, hea series
Publisher: Sandy Appleyard

Chapter 9

Sloane

Oh, it looks so bad. So, so bad. I had to lie to Jacob. Ellie is going to have a field day with this. I told her that he’s sick and upstairs in his underwear, so she can’t come in. All she needed was her other laptop, her Mac, so I grabbed it and sent her away. Of course, not without her giggling and taking everything the more interesting way: lewd and inappropriate. She thinks I had him in bed. She’ll figure out the truth when she comes home and sees him covered in spots. But oh, man, this is going to be awkward.

Given that she’s going to be home any moment from work, I leave Jacob to rest for a while after he’s eaten, and I head down to the basement, where I know that he won’t be able to hear me, and I call Ellie. Fortunately, she hasn’t left work yet, so I’m not catching her in her car.

“So….” She says, trailing off.

“It’s not what you think, so get your mind out of the gutter.”

“Sure.” She says, unconvinced.

“I’m serious.”

“So, you just go over to his house, notice that he’s got the chicken pox, and offer your home to a man you just met, and just signed an employment contract with.”

I didn’t realize how ridiculous it sounded until she just said it aloud. “Yes. Well, there’s more to it.”

“I’ll bet.”

“Ellie. He’s staying with his brother. He doesn’t have a place out here yet. His sister-in-law is pregnant and has never had chicken pox. What else was I supposed to do?”

“Let him go to a hotel.”

“Sick? Yeah, sure. And I’d go straight to hell.”

“You’re going to go straight to hell, anyway, for sleeping with your boss…and on the first day, no less. For shame.” She giggles in a way that tells me that she’s just teasing, that she believes me.

“Fuckoff. He’s just upstairs now. Covered in Calamine lotion. So you be nice when you get home.”

“Are you going to make him put his pants back on?” she laughs.

“I’ll let him know that you’re on your way home and let him decide for himself.”

“Is he cute?”

“He’s my boss.” I mean, yes, he’s cute, but I don’t admit that to her. She’d eat me for dinner.

“That’s not an answer.”

“Do you think your boss is cute?”

“My boss is a girl, idiot. And around here we call her ‘Gross Edna’, because I can count on one finger how many times I’ve seen her with clean hair.”

“Gross Edna? God, you’re such a geek.” I taunt, remembering her obsession with the television series called ‘That Seventies Show’, where a character of the same name is portrayed.

“Trust me. She’s gross. She also smokes heavily and has a huge pot belly. When she coughs I want to hook her up to a ventilator. How that woman is still alive is beyond me.”

“When is she retiring?”

“She’ll die first.” She sighs. “But I get paid very well to look at her, so I keep my mouth shut.”

“Is she at least nice?”

“Until you cross her, yes.

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