Memento Mori by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lexi Blake, McKay-Taggart, Masters and Mercenaries, The Forgotten, romance, spies, suspense
Publisher: DLZ Entertainment LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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River hated big box stores, but they sometimes came in handy. The Trading Post could order much of the equipment she needed, but it would take at least a week for shipping, and Ezra had made it plain that he wanted to be able to go the minute the weather cleared. He was paying for the expedition, hence the trip to the massive outdoor and sporting goods store.

“This one is super easy to set up,” the salesman was saying. “It’s a pop-up tent, but it’s quite roomy.”

Heather frowned. “It’s also super easy to fall apart. I don’t like that company. They cut corners.”

Andy nodded. “Heather’s right. I recently read an article about that particular company outsourcing a bunch of its manufacturing work to third world countries. They’re using sweatshops and child labor. Nell Flanders was protesting them a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure how she thought protesting them at the Trading Post would do much, but the woman is serious about protesting. She had signs and everything. Did you know she carries an emergency bullhorn with her?”

River shook her head at the salesman. He was only doing his job and that was to push whatever they had the most of. There was also the fact that she was a woman looking for camping equipment. All male salesmen seemed to think they could quickly get rid of her. “We’re going to look for a little while. Thank you. I’ll let you know when we’re ready to get serious.”

The salesman sighed and strode away. And River resigned herself to being here for a while. She’d hoped they could get out of here quickly. She wanted to get back home. The rain would stop in a day or two and they would have to get to work. She’d grown to crave the quiet time she had with Jax. They’d spent the last two days cuddled up on her couch with Buster, watching movies he’d never seen. The man worked in the entertainment industry, but he’d never seen some of her favorites like Titanic. He’d teased her terribly when he’d gotten all emotional and pretended like he didn’t know the whole ship went down.

She had fun with him.

Tomorrow she was going to ask him if he would help her pack up her father’s things so they could redo the master bedroom and move into it. It was time. She still felt numb when she thought about her father, but Jax was slowly defrosting her.

She resented the fact that she had to spend one of her precious days with him shopping for equipment in a massive store where she wasn’t even sure where he was because they’d split duties and she hadn’t ended up with him.

Not that it made sense he would go with her to make the big decisions. He didn’t know a lot about camping. He was better with a list of the incidentals they would need.

“All the really good stuff has to be ordered,” Andy said, flipping through one of the numerous catalogs the store offered.

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