Fantasy by Christine Feehan

Author:Christine Feehan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2002-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Mr. Speedy

Elda Minger

1

“I can’t believe he isn’t letting me do this!”

Miranda Ward leaned back in the booth’s comfortable seat and stared across the table at her friend Jim Barker. They’d left work twenty minutes early and headed for their favorite hangout, a sports bar, as soon as she’d found out she’d been turned down for this latest writing assignment. It was one she had really wanted, so this time it had really hurt.

“I mean, I was the one who brought the whole thing to his attention!”

“I know.” Jim signaled the waitress, who started over toward their booth. “Miranda, I think this calls for fries. I know we’re both trying to avoid fried food, but sometimes—”

“Fries would be good.”

He ordered a large serving covered in chili and cheese, plus additional beers for both of them.

“Onions?” he said.

“Let’s not go over the top.”

Miranda studied her friend. Jim, at about five feet nine inches, was a roly-poly sort of man, a real teddy bear with a full head of gingery brown hair and a ruddy complexion. In the six years they’d worked together at Street Talk magazine, she hadn’t felt a shred of attraction toward him, though there were times when she wished she could. They were best friends. He could’ve been her brother.

And since she stood five ten in her bare feet, she kind of liked it when the men she dated were a little taller than she was. Call her shallow, but it was the one requirement she usually didn’t deviate from.

She liked looking up to a man. Feeling a little feminine. And wearing heels on a date.

“Do you think it’s fair?” she said, returning to the subject she just couldn’t seem to relinquish.

“Fair isn’t the issue. Ron doesn’t think you could do the article justice—”

“Because I’m a woman!”

“Well, in this case, I have to agree with you.”

Miranda took a sip of her beer and set it down. She’d come to Ron Hutchinson, their editor, with the idea on Wednesday morning. She’d found out about a popular seminar sweeping Los Angeles called The Swiftest Seduction. The seminar leader promised men that if they attended this weekend seminar and then followed to the letter the specific directions they learned, they could have a woman in bed and have glorious sex with her—within twenty-four hours after meeting her!

At first Miranda had been incredulous, but after doing the necessary legwork, she’d found out that not only was this seminar legit but business was booming.

As if women dating in Los Angeles don’t have enough problems.

And to add insult to injury, Ron had informed her late this Thursday afternoon that she couldn’t possibly do the assignment because Anton Levine, the man in charge, never let women into his educational seminars. He considered them “the enemy.”

“Anton Levine?” Jim had said when she’d told him the outcome of her meeting with their boss. “Wasn’t he the Satanist?”

“LaVey. The name was La Vey,” Miranda had said. “Though I’d put this guy in the same league, with the stuff he’s preaching.

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