Tall, Dark, and Cowboy Box Set by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Avery Price stood, dumbfounded, as the finest man she’d ever laid eyes on walked out into the glorious Wyoming sunshine. What the heck had just happened? One minute she’d been executing a poor attempt at blackmail and the next he’d gotten the better of her. Man, he was a quick thinker, much quicker than she was.

The girl with the brand-new-copper-penny-colored hair moved around in the outer office. Avery walked back into the reception area. Rebecca, as Noah had called her, hummed some peppy tune to herself while practically floating around and gathering papers. Honestly, this place was a nightmare. Avery had been in dozens of offices, and none of them had been this cluttered, this uninviting. Didn’t Noah have some sort of staff to at least water the poor dracaena drooping like a forgotten child in the corner?

A water cooler sat against one of the walls. Avery filled up a little Styrofoam cup and gave the plant the drink it desperately needed. She dropped two more cupfuls in the soil.

“Oh, hey, thanks. The poor plants around here get neglected, because I’m too busy being this business’s backbone.” Rebecca came to a stop next to Avery, barely holding on to a stack of papers at least a foot and a half high. The girl didn’t look like she was any older than maybe nineteen or twenty. Her pearlescent skin was dotted with a smattering of light-brown freckles across the bridge of her nose. A few corkscrew tendrils had come loose from the bun on the back of her head and hung down like red streamers. Her eyes sparkled when she smiled and were the color of emeralds. Avery instantly liked Rebecca.

“The plants never get watered?” Avery gestured to the one behind her.

“When I remember. But I’m here only three days a week, and when I am here, I’m so busy with the workload that watering the plants is the last thing on my mind.” She graced Avery with an openmouthed smile. “I don’t know why Noah bothers to keep them around. I think it would look better to just take them out.”

“You’re the only employee here?” Avery found that hard to believe. How did one run a business with just two people? See, he did need help.

Rebecca hefted the papers higher in her arms. “He fired our office manager this morning for incompetence, not that I blame him. Although the woman was really nice, she wasn’t a great employee. Yesterday I asked her to shred some legal documents, and she faxed them to a client instead. Noah had to get on the phone with the guy and explain the mistake.”

Her father would have hit the roof if one of his employees had done anything that stupid. And he certainly wouldn’t have kept them around another day.

“So now it’s just me.”

Avery was just about to offer to take some of the papers from the obviously overworked girl when the phone rang.

Rebecca lifted her green eyes to the ceiling. “Great.” She scampered across the room.

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