Easy Love by Piper Lawson

Author:Piper Lawson [Lawson, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piper Lawson

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Carly: Hey, are you coming to drinks tonight?

* * *

Shit. I forgot.

* * *

Wes: Something came up. How long are you there?

* * *

Carly: 8 or 9.

* * *

Wes: I’ll stop by.

* * *

On the way into the lobby, I bump into the last figure I expect to see entering the building.

“Rena.” I’m half convinced the woman will turn around and I’ll realize I’m wrong and she’s the product of my overworked imagination.

But it’s her. She’s wearing a dress, gray with tiny sleeves that leave most of her arms bare, and a round neck that barely teases her collarbone.

Lower, it skims her curves, ending high on her thighs. Her black boots reach her ankles and have pointy toes, but that’s not what I’m noticing.

Her hair is down, and though I’ve seen it that way before it throws me.

So does the small plastic carrier at her side.

“Wes,” Rena says as recognition sets in. “I didn’t expect to see you.”

“This is my lab,” I say flatly.

“I came to Jake’s office. To return the earrings he lent me for the party.” She pulls a velvet case from her purse with her free hand.

I shake my head, struggling for words. “We had a meeting.”

“I’m sorry,” she says, her voice shaking at the edges.

“Whatever.” I brush past her, then pull up. “You know what? It’s not okay.” I round on her. “It was your idea to meet the couple, and the things they said…” I turn it over in my head. I could say they were over-the-top, rom com bullshit. What I settle on is, “we had a hand in that. It matters that they met. That it happened like this. It fucking meant something to them.”

“That’s good, Wes.” She tilts her head to look past me into the lobby, and the light catches on two red slashes over her cheekbone.

Alarm has my body tightening. “What the fuck happened?”

Rena’s gaze drags back to mine, and she holds the carrier between us like a shield. “My dad found out I forged his signature so Beck could go on a school trip Dad didn’t approve of. It didn’t go over well. He lost his shit, started yelling, and kicked Scrunchie, who got scared and scratched me. Skunks are fickle like that.

“I wouldn’t be here except Jake has a buyer for the earrings, so I needed to return them today.”

My justified anger falls away, replaced by protectiveness.

I reach out to brush the hair back. She tries to duck out of the way, but my murmured “don’t” has her stopping.

I trace below the line with my fingertip as if I can erase it. Her breath hitches.

“Let me take you home.”

She hesitates, lifting the velvet case. “I have to take these up.”

I look past her toward the elevator bank. “Wait here.”

I grab the case from her, take the elevator up and leave the earrings with Jake’s assistant.

Two minutes later, I’m back.

“Let’s go.”

I pile her and the carrier into a cab.

The ride is quiet. At the other end, I pay and we get out.

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