Date Me, Baby, One More Time

Author:Stephanie Rowe [ROWE, STEPHANIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC012000
ISBN: 9780446504751
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2007-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

As soon as they got into the cab, Derek called his brother. He got voice mail three times before Wendy finally picked up. “Quincy LaValle’s line. May I help you?”

“Wendy. It’s Derek. I need to talk to Quincy.” He drummed his fingers on his thigh, ran his hand through his hair, shifted on his seat. “Is he there?”

“He’s working on a theory and ordered me not to let him be disturbed. Can he get back to you later?”

Derek ground his teeth. He wasn’t used to being screened. Quincy always picked up by the fourth or fifth time he called. It took that long to penetrate his subconscious. “It’s really important. I need to talk to him.”

“Is it about the Curse?”

Her voice carried in the cab, and Derek saw Justine’s eyebrows raise. “Who are you talking to?” she mouthed.

He watched her fingers idly stroke her gun and realized the bloodthirsty Guardian had just found another threat to her secret life. He schooled his features into a blank expression, as if he had no idea what she’d said, then looked past her. “Yes, it is,” he replied to Wendy. “It’s very important I speak with him.”

Wendy clucked her disapproval. “I don’t think that would be a good idea. He really worries about you and this whole Curse thing. You’ll just upset him and then he’ll be distracted the rest of the night.”

“He’s always distracted.” He’d tried to get Quincy a cell phone once, but he’d never remembered to charge it. Ever. It had been a total bust. He realized he was crushing the file in his fist, and he forced his hand to relax. “Let me talk to him, Wendy. Now.”

“I’m the one who believes you, not him. Tell me. Maybe I can help. As I said before, I know people, and I’m highly motivated to save his disbelieving behind. I want to marry him and I’m not going to get the chance if he dies.”

He realized Justine had moved in a little closer to him, her ear only a few inches from the phone. A flash of interest crossed her face at Wendy’s claim. “What people?” she mouthed.

Derek shook his head and moved the phone to his other ear, away from her. She stuck her tongue out at him and climbed over him so she could listen to the phone on that side, her hands on his shoulders, her hips skimming over his thighs. He let his breath out slowly and tried to concentrate on the call. “I need his math skills, Wendy. Unless you’re as good with numbers as he is, put him on.”

“Fine,” she sighed. “But I’m doing this under protest.”

Somehow, the thought of annoying his brother’s secretary didn’t worry him. It simply didn’t measure up to being shot by a Guardian, almost defrauded by a Manasa, fireballed by a Rivka, and cursed by Satan. “Understood. Thanks.”

Quincy picked up a few minutes later. “This better be critical.”

“How are you at breaking through an encryption?”

“I love encryption. I thought this was about the Curse.

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