His Enduring Love: 50 Loving States, Illinois (Ruthless Bosses Book 3) by Theodora Taylor

Author:Theodora Taylor [Taylor, Theodora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rom Tell That
Published: 2012-11-28T22:00:00+00:00

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“HOW’S it going with the Dead Girl?” Dexter asked that night when Suro called to talk about the current slate of assignments. No hits scheduled, but they’d had to plot out security details for several parties going into the busy holiday season.

“We’ve come to an understanding,” Suro answered. “And she’s still very much alive.”

Most days Suro appreciated his friend’s sense of humor, but today wasn’t one of them. Technically, he’d gotten what he most wanted from Lacey. She was back in his bed. She cooked him warm meals and offered him companionship like he had never known.

His silence had intimidated most of the women he’d been with before Lacey, including his ex-wife. Often, the ones who didn’t eventually leave with exhortations that he needed to “work on his communication skills” ended up boring him when they tried to match his own silence by staying as meek and mute as possible.

But that wasn’t what he wanted. In fact, he hadn’t known what he wanted until he’d met the talkative black woman in Montana. Lacey had thanked him profusely for the shortened hours and the on-call maintenance man and the daycare, but it was Suro who found himself grateful for her every day.

Not just the way she cooked, but the way she smiled when he came into the room, and the way she told him about every aspect of her day, but somehow made it all seem interesting. From what she ate for lunch to the soap opera love triangle currently unfolding amongst three of the dancers—one redhead, one brunette, and one blond. The redhead and the brunette had been dating, but then the brunette left the redhead for the blond. And it might have ended there, but Lacey had walked in on the blond and the redhead kissing in the supply closet.

She summed the story up with, “Just so you know, we’re going to be losing a dancer soon. But at least they don’t live in the apartments. Then I’d have to deal with getting a new dancer and a new tenant. Though, why am I even worrying about that? You were smart to buy this business. It doesn’t look like much, but we’ve got a waiting list about a mile long for the apartments. You’ll never have to worry about putting in a rental ad.”

Yes, he agreed he had been smart to buy the business. It hadn’t felt like it at the time when he’d called himself all kinds of crazy and foolish for going through such extremes to position himself in her universe. But the more time he spent with Lacey, the better the investment looked to him.

In fact, he would pay double what he had for the club if he could get past the last wall she had erected.

She had let him into her life, and sometimes he caught her looking at him in a way that let him know she had let him into her heart, even if she hadn’t realized it yet. But she still didn’t trust him.

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