One Night With a Quarterback by Jeanette Murray

Author:Jeanette Murray [Murray, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780698171107
Amazon: B00GYA55XC
Barnesnoble: B00GYA55XC
Goodreads: 21929174
Publisher: InterMix
Published: 2014-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Cassie looked up sharply at the opening of her father’s office door. Her shoulders drooped when Kristen walked in instead of Ken.

With an apologetic smile—Kristen wasn’t an idiot . . . she’d picked up on what was going on early—she started to say, “I’m sorry—”

Cassie popped up out of her chair. “Does it ever get annoying, playing the messenger of doom?”

Kristen glanced back at Frank, who was typing as always. The way that man’s fingers flew over the keyboard was something of amazement. Then she closed the door behind her and crossed her arms over her chest. The effect rattled the chunky beads of the cute orange-and-teal necklace she wore over her starched white button-down shirt. “I get a healthy bonus every year for playing the messenger of doom.”

Cassie rolled her eyes and sank back down. “I’m not sure why I bother,” she muttered, not expecting a reply.

She should have guessed that she’d get one. “You do a lot of waiting around for him.”

Cassie snorted.

“Are you getting out and doing your own thing? Exploring the city a little?”

Her mind spun back to the parking garage and her aerial tour of the city’s landmarks. Her lips curved a little. “Some.”

“Maybe you should crank up ‘some’ to ‘often.’ He’s . . . important to you. But you’re feeling neglected. I know it’s not a romantic relationship, but I’d give the same advice to a girlfriend dealing with a guy who was playing it cool. Get interested in your own life again. Start doing your own thing. If he sees you moving on and not sitting around sulking and waiting for him, he’s going to re-think ditching you behind all the time.”

She blew a strand of hair out of her face. Thanks to Tabitha’s early morning pep talk, she hadn’t had time to fix it like she’d wanted.

“What did you do back in Georgia?”

“Work,” was her immediate answer. She loved her work. The codes, the numbers, the basic zeros and ones of it all made sense in a way other things, other human things, never could.

“You were, like, a computer person, right?”

She grinned at that. “You can say it. Nerd. I’m a computer nerd, yes. Systems securities, for the most part. Digging around and finding the weak spots, then beefing them up.”

Kristen looked suitably impressed, then her eyes narrowed. “Come with me.”

She was out the door before Cassie could tell her not to bother. “Ooookay, then.” Grabbing her bag, she followed. “See ya, Frank!” she called cheerfully.

His response was a grunt. She’d have worried if he’d used real words.

Kristen wound around a few halls and into a section of offices Cassie had passed, but not entered yet. “Welcome to your world.”

“My . . . oh.” She saw a Big Bang Theory poster next to a poster of the 2001 Super Bowl–winning Bobcats and immediately understood. “Is this where the tech guys live?”

“One in the same. Barry!”

Cassie blinked. She didn’t know Kristen had it in her to shout like that. Normally, she was so demure and poised, unflappable in the face of any conflict or inner-office drama.

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