Mafia Enforcer's Sassy Lover (The Karzhov Crime Family Series Book 4)

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Tori spent a sleepless night. She pounded her pillow five times. She tossed and turned. She tried sleeping in more clothing and then in less. When the clock flicked over to five in the morning, she gave up. Heading into the bathroom, she took a shower. She dried, fluffed her hair, dressed in jeans and a sleeveless T-shirt and stepped out of the bedroom. She hoped she wouldn’t run into Kostya for a few hours. She needed to calm her mind and the best way to do that was with work.

Walking briskly, she headed for her office. After checking over the harvesting schedule and calling a few vendors who supplied fertilizer and piping to make repairs to the watering system she strolled into the warehouse to tend the plants. She tied on a green apron and pulled on worn leather gloves. She liked this part—the pruning, staking, and tying up the plants. She didn’t even mind the smell. But she didn’t care to smoke or use the plants at all. She’d figured out soon after coming to work for Terrence that handling the plants, even getting the juices on her hands, left her lazy and stupid. She’d bought the leather gloves her second day on the job. She’d also convinced Terrence it was vital to the health of the plants to have their caretakers sober, so all the workers here wore gloves now.

She kept the warehouse at a constant temperature of seventy-two with high humidity. Tori had decided after only her first week on the job she would rather be comfortable than sticky from excess sweat. In the summer it was easy to move from inside to outside, but in the winter, Tori would rather be inside and warm instead of outside in the snow and cold.

Plugging in her earbuds, she turned up the music and lost track of everything but the plants. The repetition of checking them, snipping off dead leaves, calmed her. Humming with the music, she shook her hips and sang a few of the lyrics. She also thought how now that she was on salary—if Kostya kept his promise—she’d have all the cash she needed in just a couple of paychecks. She’d taken stock of her funds yesterday morning and she was only about five hundred dollars shy of her goal.

“Soon, David! I’m coming for you soon.” She sang the words instead of the song lyrics.

From behind her left shoulder a deep voice asked, “Who is David””

Tori gave a yelp, a jump and jerked out her earbuds. She scrambled away and pressed a hand to her chest. “What in the hell do you think you’re doing sneaking up on me like that?” She leaned against one of the wooden plant tables. And she kicked herself for showing any kind of fear.

Kostya held out his palms. Like her, he’d put on a light T-shirt and jeans. He looked…okay, he looked great. The black T-shirt stretched tight over his muscles and showed off the tats on his arms and gave a glimpse of the tat coming up his neck.

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