Cinders by Cara Malone

Author:Cara Malone [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fairy Tale
Publisher: Lisbon Press
Published: 2018-09-09T23:00:00+00:00

Cyn was working on a flush, concentrating hard on the game, when one of the guys kicked her shoe under the table.

“What?” she asked, a little irritated, and when she looked up, Marigold was standing in the doorway.

She wore a flowing blouse with navy polka dots and little ruffles that accentuated her curves. Her long legs seemed to go on for days in a pair of matching, straight-legged slacks that hung over pointy-toed heels. Her dusty blonde hair hung in wavy locks over her shoulders, and in her right hand, there was a familiar black loafer.

Cyn was transfixed by the sight of her in the harsh fluorescents and somewhat dingy surroundings of the firehouse.

“Hi, Cyn,” Mari said, and the way she looked at her, it was like there was no one else in the room. “I was in town, running a couple of errands, and I wanted to return your shoe. It must have fallen out of your truck when you left last night.”

“Very slick,” James said out of the corner of his mouth and Cyn gave him a sharp look.

Actually, it would have been slick if she’d had any clue that her shoe was missing. She hadn’t had time to think about it, or the suit that she’d left hanging in the closet upstairs, or the gold chain that she’d stored in her glove compartment for safe-keeping until she could return it to its place in her jewelry box.

“Thank you,” Cyn said, getting up. She set her cards face-down on the table instinctively, even though she’d lost all interest in the game the moment she saw Marigold. She joined Mari in the doorway and took the loafer from her, their fingers gliding over each other during the transfer and reawakening the spark that she’d felt last night in the library. “I would have been heartbroken if I thought I’d lost this.”

Mari looked over Cyn’s shoulder, to where a table full of firefighters were staring at the two of them, not even pretending otherwise. Then she said, “I hope it’s okay that I came.”

“You can come any time you like,” Gleeson said and Cyn could have strangled him.

That was the price she paid for working in a male-dominated profession, and the reason why she would never choose to bring a woman she was interested in to the firehouse – not that it had ever come up before.

She ignored him instead, and Marigold did her the favor of doing the same. Cyn blocked his view with her back and said, “Thank you for bringing back my shoe. I’d ask if you’re free for coffee, but I’m not really supposed to leave the firehouse while I’m on duty in case we get a call.”

“That’s okay,” Mari said. “I understand.”

Those blue eyes burned into Cyn and filled her whole body with electricity, and she felt like she was blowing her chance. She didn’t want Marigold to walk out of the firehouse right now because they might never have an excuse to run into each other again.

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