Protecting the Heiress by Martha Kennerson

Author:Martha Kennerson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The elevator door opened to the top floor of Francine’s building, and she paused and her breath caught when she laid eyes on Meeks. He was giving her an intense glare. “I’d kiss you senseless if I didn’t want to strangle you right now.”

Francine raised her chin, put her hands on her hips and said, “Missed you, too.”

“You just can’t help yourself, can you? And it should be illegal to wear that dress after two in the morning, let alone after six.”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me,” he replied. He was shirtless, leaning against his apartment doorframe and looking like some fair-skinned Greek god at six in the morning—a time when most humans barely looked alive. But there he stood, shaking his head and giving Francine that disapproving look he knew she hated. “What happened to doing paperwork?”

“What are you doing back so early? I didn’t expect to see you until later,” she said, fishing her key out of her handbag as she continued on to her apartment.

“I bet.” He swiped the key from her and unlocked and opened her door.

“It’s been a long night,” she said, placing her purse on the antique side table that sat in her foyer. “And I don’t have the time or the energy for this.”

She had finally been able to get Tiffany to leave the third after-hours club, where Francine had to toss a couple of overzealous fans out of their VIP section and call it a night. It had taken her another hour to brief her replacement, do one final perimeter check of Tiffany’s house and drag her tired butt across town to her apartment. The last thing she needed was to deal with Meeks’s judgmental behind.

“As for my outfit, you and I both know it’s perfectly appropriate for my assignment,” she declared as she watched him enter and close the door behind him.

“An assignment you hijacked,” he accused while leaning against her door.

“I did no such thing,” she protested, standing a few feet away from him. “Jasmine had a date and she didn’t want to cancel, so the paperwork had to wait. I’m nearly done anyway. Someone had to cover.”

All Francine wanted to do was take off the low-cut black sequined minidress that she’d never dare wear, then take the fastest shower known to man before climbing into bed for some long overdue sleep. The last thing she needed was to hear the same old crap from Meeks, although she really was happy to see him.

“A date?”

“Yes, you have a problem with that?” she challenged, standing with her hand on her hip.

“I could care less about Jasmine’s dating life. She had a job to do, but if she couldn’t she should have contacted Davis so he could have found a replacement. It didn’t have to be you, Cine,” he protested.

“It most certainly did,” she shot back as she slowly moved farther into her living room. “Tiffany’s my client, and it’s my job!”

Meeks straightened to his full six-two height, which gave him a half-foot advantage over Francine, whose five-inch heels were now dangling from her fingers.

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