This Case Is Gonna Kill Me by Melinda M. Snodgrass

Author:Melinda M. Snodgrass [Snodgrass, Melinda M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prince of Cats Literary Productions

With all the excitement I’d almost forgotten about our ladies’ lunch. Caroline turned up at the door of my office and gave me one of her cool stares.

“You’ve got to stop making a habit out of fighting werewolves. Are you ready?”

I stared at her, puzzled. “Ready for what?”

“Our women’s solidarity lunch.” There was more than a little sarcasm in her voice.

“Oh, God,” I groaned. “I forgot. I’m not sure I feel up to this.”

Caroline grabbed my arm and hoisted me out of my chair. “Nonsense. We’re going to celebrate. It’s all over the office what you did.” I dropped my face into my hands. “No, it’s a good thing. McGillary is bragging about you. Practically acting like he invented you.”

“Gold won’t like that,” I said a touch bitterly.

Our girl posse was gathered in the lobby. There were congratulations offered, and many mutterings about male assholes. Caroline had timed our reservation so we arrived before Ryan and the boys. We were ensconced at our table and had decided to get a bottle of wine. With fourteen of us it amounted to a sip each, but that was okay. We were celebrating and declaring war all at the same time. We had also begun to compare notes on Ryan.

Like me, Delia had experienced the cab fare on the table. “Oh, I wish I’d thought of the toilet, but I felt so fuzzy once it was all over,” she said. “I ended up just leaving it there.”

“I felt like I was floating in this romantic dream. Then I woke up and realized I’d been treated like a hooker,” Nancy said, and shame laced the words. Caroline put a comforting arm around her shoulders.

As they talked, I realized that their ordeals had lasted many hours longer than mine. Because I’d been fostered, Ryan wasn’t able to use his mesmerizing power on me, which meant I was fully aware of his rough treatment. I also realized that the game he was playing was dangerous as hell. Had the senior partners known? And if so, why hadn’t they shut him down? I was furious with them for risking us in this way. It was pretty clear now that Ryan was a thrill seeker. He skated on the edge of what was safe. As far as I was concerned, the Convocation, a gathering of senior vampires almost like a court, could execute Ryan, but not these women. They had been victims.

“Hookers would have done better,” Cecelia, big and blonde, declared. “One cheap-ass dinner and cab fare? With our looks and education, we are an escort service’s wet dream,” she added with a grin. And I added charmingly brassy to the big and blonde description.

Juliette, a beautiful black woman who had the soft music of Jamaica in her voice, took a fortifying sip of wine, and detailed how Ryan had used a vacuum erection device to get it up when he slept with her.

“Time to puuump you uuuup,” Kathy, a pert redhead, drawled in imitation of a decades-old Saturday Night Live skit.

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