The Arrangements- A Cozy Mystery Box Set: The Flower Shop Mystery Series (Books 1-3) by Annie Adams

Author:Annie Adams [Adams, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

"So who is this Brock guy you two were going on about?" Alex asked as we drove to the bird refuge.

"My, my, my, Mr. Cooper. I do believe it sounds as if someone is jealous."

He grinned. "Merely collecting facts to help K.C., that's all.”

“Brock Jensen is a very handsome and charming young man who is engaged to one of my brides. They met working at the bird refuge, which is kind of cute. He works for the wetlands and she’s a biologist.”

“That is very cute,” Alex said in an exaggerated tone.

I stuck my tongue out at him. “Anyway, the two of them came in for a wedding consultation with her mother, and let me tell you…I don't think there's any love lost between Brock and his future mother-in-law."

"Is he as handsome and charming as say—your boyfriend?"

"Which one?"

“Hilarious,” he deadpanned. He reached over and rested his hand on my knee. "I am sorry, you know."

"About?"

"About Sam—and last night. I should have told you about her before we went to dinner. I didn't sleep much if that helps."

"What, did you two stay up reminiscing?”

“Very funny. As a matter of fact, I told her I had to beg off after dinner. I felt bad at the way you left and I thought I should go home.”

“How did she take the news?"

“She was disappointed."

Poor girl.

He didn’t have anything more to add to the conversation and I didn’t want to talk about her anymore, so I turned on the radio. His preset landed on a "new country" station. A strong female voice with a fake, overemphasized twang belted out a song about revenge on the woman who stole her man. Talk about art imitating life—or was it the other way around? In either case, it was a nasty reminder of what I was trying to forget.

Alex bobbed his head to the rock beat that didn’t belong in the country song. I don’t know what annoyed me more—the obnoxious singer or the way Alex was oblivious to the lyrics. I snapped.

"I give up," I said.

"What do you mean?" Alex roused out of deep thought. Reminiscing about the night before, perhaps?

“Did you sleep with her?”

“Who?”

“Oh come on!”

“I told you, I went home after dinner."

"I'm not talking about last night. I'm talking about ever."

“We worked together. We were partners, for crying out loud."

"You guys were too familiar with each other last night. That wasn't coworker physicality."

"What the…you just made that up. That's not a thing, coworker physicality."

"So you never ever exceeded the boundaries of a work relationship?"

"No! Quincy, I told you—oh…”

“Oh?”

“I forgot this one time…”

“You did.” He’d lied to me.

“I—we did.” His voice was laced with what I thought sounded like regret. But I wasn’t sure exactly where the regret came from, whether it was that he remembered or that he had forgotten.

“Oops, you forgot? As much as I’d like to be snarky here about how forgettable she must have been, I can’t. I don’t know what to say.”

“We were drunk. Sloppy, stupid, drunk—at least I was. We were at some convention at a hotel and I had just gone through a bad break up.

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