Mele Kalikimaka, Baby: Hawaiian Holidays Book One by Schroeder Melissa

Author:Schroeder, Melissa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harmless Publishing
Published: 2019-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The sound of the front door squeaking open brought Mal to full awareness within seconds. He looked over and saw Jack still lying on the other side of Sophia. He heard footsteps and then the door closing.

Carefully, he slipped from the bed, grabbing his pants and pulling them on with as little sound as possible. He noticed Sophia’s phone sitting on the side table, the red light blinking. He went to pick it up, but his grandmother’s voice stopped him.

“Ms. Cantwell?”

He groaned now. Damn, they hadn’t called her to tell her they were here, but apparently, she knew. There was no doubt about it. She would not have come into the condo if she had been just checking on Sophia. She would have left a note. He buttoned his pants and then went to the bedroom door. Thank God they had closed it or who knows what would have happened.

He opened the door and found his grandmother standing in the small living area with a man he didn’t recognize. Perfectly cut hair, straight white—almost sparkling—teeth, and a wrinkled suit. He looked the part of the snotty executive, except for the condition of his clothes.

His grandmother frowned at him. “I have been calling both you and Jack for hours.”

Mal glanced at the clock and smiled.

“There is no way you would have been calling us for hours. It is only eight in the morning.”

“Who are you?” the man asked.

“I could ask the same of you.”

“I want to know where Sophia is. I have been trying to get a hold of her for several hours. When I got here, they said she never checked into the hotel, and after talking to her friends…although they were not that forthcoming, I find out she is staying here.”

“Rick?”

Mal looked back over his shoulder and almost swallowed his tongue. Damn, she was a sight to see. Her cat green eyes were still sleepy, her face flushed, and she was wearing his shirt. Right now he could wish his grandmother and the idiot with her to perdition.

Then it hit him what she said. Rick. He turned to face her.

“You know this ass?”

She nodded. “He’s my boss.”

“Who didn’t know where you were when I called. When I arrived, I got the idea you might have been abducted.”

Her face flushed with embarrassment. She looked around Mal, and he did not like that at all. She was focusing on another man and, well, it pissed him off.

“And just what the hell are you doing here? Did you not think I could close the deal?”

“No. It isn’t that.” The man was practically whining.

“Wait a minute. What makes you think you are closing the deal?” Mal asked as icy fingers speared into his gut. Was that her plan? Seduce them, then get the condos? A flash of pain came and went in her gaze so fast he wasn’t sure if he had even seen it.

“I don’t have time for this right now,” she muttered. “I’m going to go get dressed.”

She turned on her heel and passed a confused Jack, who apparently had just joined them.

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