It Came Upon a Midnight Dream by Romans Bobbi

Author:Romans, Bobbi [Romans, Bobbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781304718495
Publisher: Shara Azod, LLC
Published: 2013-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Disoriented, I jumped from bed and searched the place. No dream dude, no friggin’ white tiger. Four a.m. Well, shit. Too early to be up, and too late to go back to bed. It would be hell going back to sleep after such vivid and wild imagery. Plunking back into my comforting bed, loose limbed but frustrated over the abrupt, back-to-earth ending, I rolled to my stomach and had myself one well-earned mini tantrum. When I moved to the pillow next to me, I could swear I picked up his scent.

The unique, sexy, musky, woodsy smell that was all him and so damn intoxicating.

Impossible. Right? None of this was real.

I slipped off sometime between seeing the clock turn to four-thirty and the alarm going off.

It was now Christmas Eve day and especially nippy. My legs protested being offered up to the arctic floor for testing. Yep, as cold as I feared. I jerked my feet back into the warmth of the comforter and wished I were the sort to be okay calling in sick. But I wasn’t. Polly didn’t deserve it, and neither did I. I’d feel guilty the entire holiday.

Dragging my ass out of the warm bliss that so perfectly surrounded me, I booked it to the bathroom with thoughts of a steaming hot shower.

I was on my way to work, locking my front door, when Mr. Williams tapped me on the shoulder and damn near scared me to death.

“Honey, I wanted to talk to you for a minute,” he began.

“About yesterday?” I asked, guessing.

“This is going to sound crazy, but the tiger? Well, he went to sniffing and pawing at your door. The thing even whizzed all around your place. Stunk the whole area up but real good.”

There had been a weird odor, but since a few hours had gone by between the time the tiger was at my place and when I’d returned from the zoo, I supposed the scent had evaporated or whatever happens to the marking.

“The landlord has a no-pet policy. I just don’t want to hear about you getting into any kind of trouble or nothing.”

“You seriously think I’ve been hiding a tiger in my place?” Mr. Williams was elderly, but not that much so.

“Oh, no, but I thought maybe you’d snuck a house pussy in or something and the tiger picked up her scent.”

House pussy? Oh, hell, no, he didn’t just say pussy.

“Uh, no. Scout’s honor, I run a no-pets household.” I sure as shit wasn’t about to get into anything with him right now. The man had said pussy, and something about that fact had me fighting the worst case of giggles I’d had in a long damn time.

I thanked Mr. Williams for his concern and discretion and caught a taxi into work. It was too damn cold this morning to walk. My blood hadn’t gotten weathered yet for the season.

We passed out our gifts at work for the white elephant exchange and tidied up to close down for the holiday.

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