Red Nights by Shari J. Ryan

Author:Shari J. Ryan [Ryan, Shari J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope
Published: 2015-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

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“You doing better today?” Grant asks when I walk through the door. I want to tell him to be more specific.

“Yeah. I’m sorry for my behavior last night.” He waves me toward his office. I might have shot myself in the foot. This is what he does when he lets people go. He takes them into his office, sits them down, and tells them they have great potential, but it’s just not working out. Since my kitchen staff has been in the hot seat a number of times, I’ve had the pleasure of sitting in on some of these occasions. I never expected to be on the other side, though.

I follow him into the office and he stops to shut the door behind us. I take a seat, which would serve as a regular seat any other day. But today, it’s the seat. “I’ll go without a fight.”

He leans back on his desk, crossing his arms over his chest. “What are you talking about?”

“I—I figured you were letting me go.” But, maybe he’s not. I can’t add “unemployed” to everything else.

“Felicity,” he begins. “I’m not one to put all of my cards on the table. As a businessman, it’s an ignorant move. But you are the best chef I could have ever hoped to walk through these doors. I want to do whatever it takes to help you get through this. And unfortunately, removing Aspen from the restaurant was part of that.”

I don’t understand how removing my closest friend—and now roommate—from her place of employment is going to help me get through any of this. He has to realize how difficult it has already made things, regardless of how well Aspen seems to be taking it. “I don’t understand.”

He presses his fingertips into his eyebrows, a look of strain filling his face. “Last night, I was trying to tell you who I caught her with in the freezer. I was hoping when you fired her, she would come clean. However, considering you’re still defending her, I guess she didn’t.”

“She did. Last night,” I say.

Grant stands up, rolling his shoulders back and his neck from side to side. “Thank God. I really didn’t want to have to tell you.” He walks around to the back of his desk, for no reason other than to pace. “I was losing sleep over telling you, kid.”

“It’s just Ralph. What’s the big deal? I mean, it’s gross and all, but…” I shudder at the thought. “Whatever. I don’t put too much past Aspen when it comes to her sex life.”

Grant gives me a brief wide-eyed stare before dropping into his chair. His elbows fall on his knees and his head lands in his hands. “Dammit,” he exclaims.

For a reason I don’t understand, my heart sinks and my blood feels cold in my veins. “What?” I ask, the word catching in my throat.

“She wasn’t in there with Ralph.” He lifts his head out of his hands. His face has a pallor I’ve never seen before.

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