Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, General
ISBN: 9781429951098
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

NINE

The bald head barely waited for her to nod. In fact, he might not have. “Come on in back. I’m right in the middle of something.”

The head disappeared and Corinne blinked. “Who was that?”

Shiny shrugged. “The owner. You better hurry up. He won’t wait around for you.”

Corinne couldn’t decide whether to feel upset by the interruption, or intensely relieved. Luc might have been ready to steer the conversation back to business, but she still had a few questions she was dying to ask. Like, What the hell are you talking about?Still, it quickly became apparent that Shiny was right and Hibbish didn’t intend to wait around for them.

Gesturing for Luc to follow her, Corinne pushed through the heavy drape and hurried through a short entry then around the corner of a shelving unit. She saw piles of stock, apparently separated by categories, and in some cases by color and/or size. The choices stocked by The Pink Pillow were quite, uh, impressive. Not to mention distracting. One particular battery-operated accessory had her tilting her head this way and that in confusion until she nearly forgot about the rest of her surroundings. She just followed the path through the shelves until she rounded a corner and something entirely non-mechanical caught her attention. It took about three seconds for what she was seeing to register with her unsuspecting brain, and she froze in place with the abruptness of a gunshot.

Good Lord! What had she just walked into?

She heard a chuckle behind her and a gust of warm breath against her ear. “When he said he was in the middle of something, I didn’t think he meant anything quite so…literal.”

“Um, me either.”

Corinne swallowed and felt Luc’s hands settle on her shoulders. He had stepped into the back room right on her heels, and since he was so much taller, he had an unobstructed view of the sight that greeted them. She could only wonder what it looked like from his angle.

She did try to look away. It seemed like the polite thing to do. She wondered briefly if she should have stared at the hideous pink walls outside for a little longer so she could have been struck blind by the garish colors. That way she would have been unable to see the horrific sight now before her.

Sheesh,she thought, can this day get any weirder?

In the back room of the shop, the man she assumed was Walter Hibbish stood hip-deep in a pile of mostly naked bodies with a camera pointed straight at some of the most naked bits. Okay, the most unclothed bits. Nakedmight be a bit misleading, since they all seemed to be covered with something that looked like pastel-colored whipped cream.

“Sorry I can’t take a break to talk to you,” the shop owner said in between snaps of his shutter, “but this stuff is gonna be on the shelves next week and I need to get these shots done and printed up for the display. A little to the left, Hildie. Good.

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