Passion and Payback by Romeo Alexander

Author:Romeo Alexander [Alexander, Romeo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

KAI

“I’m just saying, a bit of waiting wouldn’t hurt either of us,” I told Hunter patiently, knowing my words were falling on deaf ears—or stubborn ones.

“We’ve been at this for two weeks, going on three,” he retorted in a low voice. “How long do we have to plan, plot, and dig for information?”

How long before we finally decided we were going to follow through on a plan to kill three men? That was the real question, but not one I could ask aloud while we were sitting in the middle of the café. Arwen was chatting a handful of feet away, clearly enjoying herself as she flirted with a couple of handsome guys who’d come in for a drink and the chance to pet their favorite cats. Apparently, they wanted to adopt, but their third roommate was allergic to cats, so they had to settle for coming in occasionally.

“Here you go,” Rich piped up, sliding a steaming mug toward me. “Try that one.”

“Sure,” I said with a shake of my head and eyed Hunter. “How long is he going to keep trying?”

“Until he finds you a cup of coffee that isn’t met with the equivalent of a grunt and a shrug,” Hunter informed me with a laugh. “You could always make it stop by giving at least a half-assed performance of how good the coffee is.”

“You really think he’d fall for that?”

“If you managed it with a smile and a better word than good, he might.”

“Well, it’s all just...good,” I said with a shrug.

“Well, he’s made it his life’s mission to find everyone’s super special cup of coffee that makes sure they keep coming back for more than just the cats,” Hunter said with a fond smile. “It’s literally the second reason I hired him...and gave him a few raises.”

“I’m hoping the first reason was because he was actually good at making coffee.”

“It would be a little weird to have a barista dedicated to making coffee special to everyone while only making cups of turpentine and old dirt mixed with lake water.”

“That is...very specific, Hunter.”

“You try drinking some of the coffee those stores give to their employees,” he said with a wrinkle of his nose.

“Customer facing jobs aren’t really for me,” I said.

Hunter glanced over at Rich and rolled his eyes. “If you don’t drink that coffee, he’s going to implode.”

“I can hear you!” Rich grumbled from behind the machines.

“Oh, I know,” Hunter said with a chuckle.

Sighing, I took a drink and raised a brow as the bitter richness of the coffee intermingled with the heavy smoothness of cream and something...floral? “What...is there flower juice in this?”

“Oh, did you get that lavender mix in again?” Hunter asked over his shoulder.

“As in the flower that old lady used to try to grow in bushes on her balcony?” I asked Hunter in disbelief.

“Close enough,” Hunter said and then pointed over his shoulder. “No, Rich, we do not need to know that it isn’t exactly those flowers, where you got the stuff from, or the history of using lavender in coffee and other drinks over the years.

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