Playing the Field by Elise Sax

Author:Elise Sax [sax, elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elise Sax
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The training took an hour and was mostly memorizing the location of the different inventory. It was impossible to learn everything, but she explained it was a hunt and peck operation. People liked to search through the mountains of stuff. It was part of the charm of the place.

She had me study the decorations with a duster in my hand, cleaning as I went. There was a steady stream of customers, with the door opening about every ten minutes and blowing in a cold wind and snow. Most of the customers were good at trying to ignore the frills on my behind, but more than one husband and teenage boy ogled outright. It was all I could do not to beat them over the head with Santa’s Village commemorative snow globe.

But Loretta seemed to be pleased with my work and even more pleased by the influx of young male customers. When the shop was ready to close at seven, I hadn’t set anything on fire, hadn’t beaten any animals, and didn’t get one complaint.

I was a hit.

The reindeer bell rang, and I turned around to see Detective Remington Cumberbatch walk in. He took up most of the doorway, his massive body blocking the cold air and snow. He was a breathtaking man, a tattooed part-time UFC fighter with muscles on top of muscles and a talent for oral sex.

I was crazy stupid for calling it quits with him. He locked eyes with me, and I read one thing in his: panic.

“Oh my good goddamn,” Loretta breathed and touched her head, making her cap slip off. Staring at him, she stumbled backward and grabbed onto a gingerbread house display for balance and knocked it to the ground.

Even though she had seen him before, it must have been Remington framed in Christmas with his head touching mistletoe that sent her over the edge. He was the one gift for Christmas that she never thought to stock, and it was too much for her to handle.

I was worried that his testosterone was going to see me out of a job. “How did you find me?” I asked.

“I heard talk about a fine ass, and I put two and two together. We’ve got to talk.”

I nodded. “Back here.”

He closed the door behind him and followed me to the back of the store. He was so big that he knocked into tables as he walked and had to right merchandise before it fell to the floor. When we made it to the back room, he nudged me against the wall and put his hands on the wall on either side of me. He bent down and looked me eye to eye. Serious. Hopeful. Scared.

“I’m not pregnant,” I said.

“But you said at Saladz…”

“I can’t tell you why, but it wasn’t true. I’m not pregnant. Not even a little bit.”

His head dropped, and he breathed loudly, like he had been holding his breath a long time and just got a dose of oxygen.

“Relieved?” I asked.

“Oh, thank Christmas.”

He pressed his lips on mine, hot and urgent, and his fingers trailed across my frilly underpants.

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