Dirty Damsels by Peggy Jaeger

Author:Peggy Jaeger [Jaeger, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-07-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

A bell rang, loud and annoying, somewhere close to me.

I dragged one eye open, then the other. Shards of light sliced through the drapes in my bedroom.

Morning.

Through the fuzzy haze of wake-up brain, I recognized the bell blaring as my bedroom landline phone.

Most people who lived in this century had forgone the landline for a more convenient cellphone. For most of my everyday life, I complied with this as well. But I’d kept the old rotary phone because it had been my very first one, a sweet sixteen present from my dad and I couldn’t bear to part with it. One day I knew I would. Very few people had the number. Two, in fact. Nell and Danny.

“‘lo,” I said after picking it up.

“Where the hell are you?” Nell screeched. I jerked the phone an arm’s length away from my ear.

“In bed. Why are you yelling at me?”

“Because it’s after ten and you’re not here.”

“Oh, shit. I overslept.”

Instantly awake, I jumped up and sprinted for the shower, dragging the phone with me. The extra-long cord made it possible to bring it all the way into the bathroom. I did a quick pan of my bedroom and the bed and realized I was alone. Buddy must have left sometime after the second time we’d made love. Wait, no. The third time.

“I’ve been calling your cell and leaving messages for over an hour. I was worried something happened to you.” Nell’s voice lowered enough that I could put the phone to my ear.

“It’s probably dead again. I forgot to plug it in last night after I got home.” I turned on the shower to heat the water. I was glad I was alone because a quick gander in the mirror told me I resembled a woman who’d been thoroughly and completely ravished.

I couldn’t help the small smile that peered back at me.

“You need to break that habit, El.”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. Is everything okay at the office?”

“By the grace of God and a good computer filing system. Four of your girls showed up, and thankfully, I was able to send them on their way to the jobs you’d logged in. But you need to get here. Danny’s coming by in a little while to talk game plan and strategy for tomorrow.”

The happiness reflected back at me in the mirror faded. Buddy had done what I’d asked him to, and for a few hours during the night, I’d forgotten all the crazy stuff going on in my life. But it was daytime now, and I had to face those problems head on.

“Okay, I’m getting ready. I’ll be there in less than an hour.”

I disconnected and took one of the fastest showers of my life.

When I was getting dressed, I lifted my head and sniffed at the tantalizing aroma hitting my nostrils.

Coffee. And if I wasn’t mistaken, bacon.

What the—

From the kitchen doorway I found the reason for the delicious scents. Buddy stood at my stove, his shirtsleeves rolled up past his elbows, barefoot, and a spatula in his hand.

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