Rook Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

Author:Camilla Blake [Blake, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-17T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“Atlas!” Bex hollered as she came clomping in through the door. She was sweaty and happy and filled with good news. “Are you home?”

“In here,” he called from the living room.

She skidded into the room and hopped over the back of the couch, as dexterous and full of energy as she used to be as a child.

He was sitting in an armchair, an open book in his hands. His hair was damp from the shower.

“You’ll never guess what happened,” she chirped, bouncing lightly where she sat on the couch. She didn’t wait for a response. “I went to May’s studio with the book club girls and we all danced. I think they’re my friends now, by the way. But the really amazing thing that happened was that May offered me a job.”

“No kidding! Doing what?”

Rebecca covered her face with her palms and relived the moment at the end of the class. She’d had absolutely no idea what to make of these rich, fancy ladies asking her to dance for them. She certainly didn’t want to be their little pity performer, something to entertain them. But that hadn’t been it at all. In fact, they’d all been impressed by her moves, asking for tips and guidance for the rest of the hour and a half. They’d been filled with praise for her and not one of them had asked a voyeuristic question. They’d treated her like a friend. Like a peer.

And then, the icing on the cake…

“Yeah! As a dance instructor. She wants to add in… a new kind of dance classes and she doesn’t have as much experience as I do. So she asked if I’d teach them. It’s five days a week, an hour and a half each and she’s gonna pay me…” Rebecca leaned forward on her knuckles, making intense eye contact with Atlas, so that he’d know just how miraculous this really was. “One hundred dollars an hour.”

She smacked her hands together and let her head drop back. She stared at the ceiling as if God were sitting right there and she could thank her personally. “Atlas, that means that I can quit my cleaning jobs. May said that she also needs some front desk help if I want to supplement my hours around the classes. Which I have no idea how to do but she said she’d teach me.”

“That is so great,” he said in a gruff voice. “Now you don’t have to schlep your cart all over the city and spend time in stranger’s houses. That’s been making me nervous lately.”

There was something in his tone of voice that had Rebecca studying him. He was lazily skewed across his chair, the way he always was. But he didn’t look relaxed the way he usually did at night. No, he looked tense and uncomfortable. Guilty even.

“Is everything all right?” she asked him.

He shook his head and her stomach dropped. “I need to confess something to you.”

Rebecca’s stomach dropped lower than the basement. It was currently residing somewhere around the core of the earth.

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