Caballo Security Box Set by Camilla Blake

Author:Camilla Blake [Blake, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Prescott

“What kind of a name is Prescott, anyway? Are you from Australia?”

“No, darling,” I said, deepening my accent as much as I could, aware of what it did to a woman’s resolve. “I’m from England.”

“Hmm, like The Beatles?”

“Exactly like The Beatles.”

The woman smiled, her sticky lips spreading but not growing any thinner. In fact, they were still quite full, the kind of lips that would look beautiful wrapped around a man’s—

“Prescott!”

I glanced over my shoulder, surprised, and deeply irritated, to see Skylar coming toward me. The office mother hen, she was dressed in a perfectly schoolmarm type of outfit: a green-and-black tartan skirt with pale-blue tights and an Aran-style cardigan that was bright red. Her hair was pulled back into a messy bun, decorated by way of a silk scarf she had knotted around the center of the bun that then hung down her back, longer than her hair when it was left down. It was such a combination of colors and shapes and sizes that she looked like a doll some child had attempted to dress in the dark. The only saving grace was the dark eyeliner that was actually quite a nice accent to her pale-blue eyes.

“Who’s that?” the woman I’d been chatting up asked.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

I pushed away from the bar and met Skylar halfway, touching her arm to push her back away from my quarry.

“What are you doing here, Sky?”

Her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked up at me. She used to like it when I called her Sky, but lately I’d gotten this look more and more, a sort of irritated, do-you-even-know-my-name sort of look. Made me wonder what I’d done to make that little bit of expectation disappear from her pretty eyes.

“I need to talk to you.”

“Can’t it wait?”

“No, it can’t.”

“Well, what’s it about?”

She glanced around the place, noting the quickly filling tables and basic business attire of the other patrons. I caught her glancing down at her own clothing before looking back up at me. “Can’t we go somewhere quieter?” she asked in a loud whisper.

“I was in the middle of something. Maybe you can just spit it out.”

“It’s personal.”

“Yeah, well, I was engaged in some personal stuff I’d like to get back to. So spit it out, darling.”

Her eyes narrowed again. I couldn’t remember a single time when she’d looked at me with that bit of disapproval before I’d convinced her to marry me. It was a little unnerving, to be honest. I didn’t like it when people weren’t happy with me. I was an easygoing guy and I liked to be liked. And Skylar had initially been one of those who would turn to jelly every time I walked by. I liked it that way. This new Skylar was a little unnerving.

“I need to go out of town for a while. My great-gran… she called and asked me to come visit.”

“You want me to house-sit? Shouldn’t be a problem. Things are slow right now and Ox said I likely won’t have a new operation for a week or so.

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