Kiss A Ginger Day: A steamy workplace romantic comedy by Elizabeth SaFleur

Author:Elizabeth SaFleur [SaFleur, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949076608
Publisher: Elizabeth SaFleur LLC
Published: 2024-05-20T18:30:00+00:00

13

Mondays were usually a zoo. Add a burglary and Alice didn’t know what she would encounter.

The night before, Tricia had texted to say the building’s alarm went off at 10:38 p.m. The cameras caught a guy in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans running through the parking lot, his backpack bumping on his back. He held something under his arm—the petty cash box, which Alice had stored in her locked desk drawer.

Police took fingerprints. Stolen items were cataloged. The thief had snatched really odd things: Roger’s fountain pen, a crystal paperweight, the Keurig machine, and all the K-cups, including the disgusting blueberry cobbler coffee that only Tricia liked. Alice would have willingly given the guy those if he’d only left the French roast and Samuel’s special Kona blend. Whoever the thief was, he was about to be the most hated human at Edison Tech. No caffeine at Edison could start a war.

As soon as Alice and Patty stepped off the elevator, they both scanned the office. It was empty, but it didn’t look any different from yesterday, except for the poor fig tree by the elevator doors, now on its side, a scattering of dirt over the gray carpet.

The air felt different, though. A hush hung in the air like smoke. Being burgled would change the mood, but the quiet was oppressive.

“Where is everyone?” she whispered to Patty, who she’d picked up again that morning because her car was in the shop. “You know Roger didn’t give anyone the day off.” He never did.

Patty shrugged. “Maybe Harrison brought the good pastries from the German deli?”

That would send anyone running to their tiny kitchen, turning it into the Thunderdome, especially because there’d be no coffee unless someone ran out for it. She couldn’t imagine the whole office would be at the Coffee Monkey café down the street at once.

Or maybe everyone was in one of Roger’s sudden all-staff meetings.

That thought must have dawned on both her and Patty at the same time. They slowly blinked at one another. Without another word, they scooted toward the conference room. Sure enough, Roger was giving one of his morning “prep talks.” The fact that he used the wrong word for “pep talk” was apropos because there was nothing motivating about his impromptu gatherings.

The room was fairly crowded; though the O’Flannerys were conspicuously missing. Other than pastries from the German deli, nothing else brought workers to a meeting faster than getting all the juicy details of something like an office burglary.

Theodore sat back, his ankle on his knee, rocking back and forth in his chair, listening intently to Roger. Tricia sat next to Theodore, her gaze roaming Theodore from head to foot.

His penetrating blue eyes flicked up to Alice once, then returned to Roger. Not even giving her a second glance.

She’d called him right after she got the downlow from Patty. Alice let him in on what happened, and he seemed oddly nonplussed about the whole matter. They didn’t talk long. Probably for the best because it was time to work, not imagine filthy sexual things that still crowded her mind.

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