Deadly Chemistry (Entangled Ignite) by Teri Anne Stanley

Author:Teri Anne Stanley [Stanley, Teri Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: deadly chemisty, romantic suspense, terri ann stanley, contemporary, romance, suspense, chemistry
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The theme song from The Big Bang Theory rent Lauren’s slumber, and she jumped from sexy dreams to blind-groping for her phone, hoping to quiet it before it woke Mike.

She didn’t look at the display before she hit the answer button, so she was surprised to hear Alex say, “Hello? Lauren?”

“Um…hang on,” she whispered, then turned to see that she was alone in her bed.

Crap. Mike was gone. He’d snuck out. She must have misunderstood him. Maybe he hadn’t really wanted to stay with her, and he was trying to be nice until he could escape. She had no idea how these things worked. With Alex, there had been so much negotiating and boundary setting before they slept together, she was amazed they’d managed to actually get tab A aligned with slot B. With Mike…tab A hadn’t even gotten close to slot B yet, and…yowza. Oh, well. It was supposed to be just a blip. Ions passing in solution. Not an exothermic reaction of nuclear proportions.

“Lauren? You okay?”

“Yeah. Sorry, Alex.” She touched Mike’s side of the bed. It was still warm. She shook off her disappointment and focused on the call. “What time is it? What’s wrong?”

“It’s midnight. I know it’s late, but I just heard about what happened to your lab and I wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

Lauren did a double take before she moved the phone from her ear and checked the caller ID. Yep. This person who sounded like Alex was calling from Alex’s number. The Alex she’d been involved with would never have called to check on her. He would have waited until it was convenient, and then delivered a lecture on what she could have done differently to avoid her problems. “I’m okay. A little freaked out, a lot mad, but okay.”

“Are you sure? What happened? What was taken?”

Lauren gave Alex a brief rundown of the damage. “And they took that ancient desktop computer and some notebooks.”

“So did they take any of your drug?”

“Um…” How much should she tell him? What did it matter? “They took the step two. And a bag of step one pellets.”

Alex whistled. “Uh-oh. That’s bad.”

“I don’t see how. They can’t know what to do with it. They don’t have my notes.”

“I thought you said they took your notebooks.”

“Oh. Yeah. But they didn’t get the right ones.”

“Thank God. Do you have them somewhere safe?”

“Yeah, I think so.” She hesitated, because he would probably gloat about having convinced her to do things his way. “I brought them home to transcribe onto my laptop.”

“That’s a good idea. I’m glad you took my advice.”

Of course he was. She needed to get him off of the phone before he took every detail and dissected it until she found herself defending not only her own choices, but the logic of the vandals and the parents who mistreated them into taking up a life of crime.

“You know, Alex, I’m really not up for talking about this right now. I appreciate your concern, but…”

“Of course. It’s late, and I’m sure you’ve got better things to do right now.

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