Kiss Me Awake by Momyer Julie

Author:Momyer, Julie [Momyer, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Goody 2 Shoes Publications
Published: 2013-04-21T21:00:00+00:00

20

Jaida rested her shoulder against the steel doorjamb, a cup of hot coffee in each hand. Lance had yet to see her standing there. He sat hunched over his desk. The phone was pressed to his ear, his mouth drawn into a rigid line, his other arm a shield spanning the width of his chest.

He leaned forward, and in the time it took for her to exhale, his expression went from annoyed, to irate, to furious. He shouted into the receiver. “I can’t work with you breathing down my neck.” The string of colorful words that followed belonged to a side of him she’d never seen before. But how well did she actually know him?

Jaida straightened. She leaned her head back and took a peek down the hall. Auggie’s door was closed. She promised she would do this, but it didn’t look like a good time to probe.

Besides the negative atmosphere in here, she was still operating below par from running into Spencer. She wouldn’t be at the top of her game. Not that she had much game to begin with.

She turned to leave, but before she managed a full pivot, one of the cups slipped through her fingers and fell to the floor. The lid and hot paper cup parted ways. She jumped back at the spreading puddle and looked up, eyes wide. Lance was staring back, panic paralyzing his features when he saw her standing there.

No good-bye, he offered no closure to the other party before he hung up. Just exactly who was on the other end of that line, and what did he think she heard?

He pushed back from his chair and rounded the desk, then quickly turned back and picked up the phone again. “Yeah, can you get some paper towels in here?” He looked down at the spill and the oversized cup lying on its side. “Better make it a mop.”

He hung up then and looked at her. Jaida shrugged and smiled. “I brought you some coffee.”

“I see that. Did you want me to lap it up like a dog?”

She stared at him, struggling for words, unsure how to take him. Was he joking? Or was he angry?

He flashed his trademark smile then, the tension from her shoulders melting. “It’s all good. Job security for the custodian,” he said.

She skirted the mess on the floor and handed him the other cup. It was hers that she’d so gracefully dumped.

“Come on in.” He pulled out a chair beside his desk and she hesitated. Did she really want to do this right now? May as well. Couldn’t very well turn tail and run without raising suspicions.

He raised the cup. “Want to share?”

She shook her head. “I’ll survive. But I’m not so sure about you. You having a bad day?”

He sighed and sank into the desk chair. “Guess you heard?” He looked at her then as though gauging her reaction. Was he trying to determine how much she’d overheard?

“I saw more than heard,” she said. “Problems with work?”

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