Complexity by Berengaria Brown

Author:Berengaria Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Book/Menage
Published: 2010-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Finn burst into Simeon’s office with a worried look on his face.

“We have to go check on Tia. Right now. Come on.” Simeon grabbed his jacket from the back of his chair and shrugged into it as he followed Finn out the door. “Why, what’s happened?”

“The flowers, man. The flowers.”

“Huh? Say what?”

“Flowers. We gave her flowers.”

“Yes, I got those goldy-browny ones that matched her dress. She looks stunning in that color. So what’s your point?” Finn kept his finger pressed firmly on the elevator call button.

“She’s an asthmatic. And we gave her flowers. That’s what, you moron.”

“Oh shit!” Simeon flung open the door to the stairwell and started running. Finn took his finger off the call button and sprinted after him.

Their feet pounded on the concrete stairs as they rapidly descended past floor after floor, their speed never diminishing until they hurtled out of the door at the concourse level.

Tia was not at the reception desk. Nor was Keziah. One of the young security guards was standing there, his eyes looking hopefully at the bank of elevators. There was no sign of Garry, either.

“Where is she?” demanded Simeon.

“Ms. Keziah had to go to her shift on reception at the gym. She asked me to stay here until Garry and Tia returned.”

“No, where’s Tia?”

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“I cannot say, Mr. Templeton. I only know she went somewhere with Garry.”

“Shit! Shit! Shit!” yelled Simeon, picking up the vase of chrysanthemums and hurling it into the fountain. It hit one of the metal pipes and smashed into hundreds of pieces with a loud crash, followed by a tinkling sound like wind chimes as the pieces of glass dropped to the bottom of the fountain.

Finn wrapped his arms around Simeon. “She’ll be fine. There’ll be an explanation for this. Get a hold of yourself, man.”

“The nearest hospital’s St. Andrews. Garry will have taken her to St. Andrew’s. I’ll get a taxi—”

“First, we’ll phone her.” Finn pulled his cell phone out of his pocket.

“You phone Tia. I’ll phone Gary.”

“I have already phoned Garry, and he’s on his way down. He and Tia were on the fifteenth floor. I have also phoned a cleaning crew to fix the mess in the fountain. Should they send the account to Templeton Techtronics or to your apartment, sir?”

“She’s on the fifteenth floor? She’s okay?” Simeon sighed, then looked rather sheepish. “Send the bill to me, personally, at the apartment. I guess that was a pretty stupid thing to do. But I love her and—”

A cleaning crew and a trolley full of equipment unloaded from one elevator and moved to the fountain as Tia and Garry, talking intently to each other, emerged from another elevator. Tia looked around at all the activity on the concourse and lifted an eyebrow at her men. Finn and Simeon rushed across and gathered her in their arms.

“Are you all right? Where have you been? Why did you leave the desk?”

“I’m so sorry about the flowers. I just thought they looked so pretty with your dress. I never thought of your asthma.

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