Saving Scarlett by Emily Bishop

Author:Emily Bishop [Bishop, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AG Media, LLC
Published: 2017-11-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter One

Fiona

Working with my best friend, Drew, was both a blessing and a curse. Right now, it was definitely a curse. I stood atop a stepladder, waiting for him to pass me another can of paint so I could restock the top shelf. But the can never came.

I turned around to see what the hold up was. Drew’s lanky body was hunched over his phone, his thumbs tapping quickly on the screen. I couldn’t see his face, only the dark, tangled mess of his hair.

“Are you seriously texting right now?” I asked.

He grinned without looking up. “It’s an emergency.”

“Sure it is,” I said. “What’s her name?”

“Cordelia,” Drew said, drawing out her name like a sigh.

I rolled my eyes. “Are you sure she didn’t give you a fake name? Because that sounds fake as hell.”

His smiled widened. “I’m sure I don’t care. As long as she agrees to go out with me tonight, I’ll call her whatever she wants.”

“Well, do you think your flavor of the week can wait until we finish restocking the paint?” I asked.

“Love waits for nothing, Fiona,” he said.

I snorted. “Love? Like you’d know anything about that.”

Drew finally looked up then and raised an eyebrow at me. “Ouch. You know I’m a romantic at heart. You might be, too, if you got a little action every once in a while.”

I shook my head. “Getting laid and being in love are not the same thing. If you spent more than a week with a girl, you’d know that.”

He smiled at me. “Oh, Fee. I think you need to worry about your own love life instead of mine. Then you might actually have one.”

“I have a love life,” I said, but the words sounded unconvincing, even to me.

“One that’s not powered by batteries, I mean,” Drew said, shaking his head in mock sadness.

I was about to tease him right back, but I stopped myself. “Goddammit, Drew. You always do this.”

He looked at me innocently. “What? Bring up your vibrator? Not always. Maybe once a week, tops.”

“No,” I said. “You always find a way to sidetrack the conversation when I ask you to work.”

He made an offended sound. “That hurts. I’m just worried about you. Clearly, you’re all wound up and stressed. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be lashing out at me, your oldest and dearest friend in the world. Which is why I think you need to get laid. Not just for your sake, but for mine.”

I sighed. “You’re not wrong. I just—” I stopped short and groaned. “Dammit, you’re doing it again. Please stop distracting me. We need to get this done.”

Drew shook his head solemnly. “We need to get your life in order before we can even think about focusing on work.”

“Spoken like a model employee,” I said, grinning.

“I am a model employee, thank you very much. I’ll have you know I was Mystic Hardware’s employee of the month, every month, until I got you a job here.”

I laughed. “Until I started, you were the only employee here, besides the owner.

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