Something Hidden by Alex Owens

Author:Alex Owens [Owens, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B079D929HR
Goodreads: 38250880
Published: 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Morgan woke me at eleven a.m. the next morning. I’m sure she did it on purpose, because there was no way she was making that much noise without doing it deliberately. I came out to the kitchen to find her slamming cookie sheets into the drawer below the stove.

I didn’t even know we had any of those, or where they might be hiding. Mother of the year, I was not.

I groaned, “Oh my god… what are you doing?”

“Just a little spring cleaning,” she replied, banging a muffin pan against a cake pan.

“It’s November. Either you’re way early or really late.” I sat on a bar stool, realizing this was going to take a while.

She ignored me. For another twenty minutes.

Great. I kind of wished that I could suffer from hangovers, so I’d have a reason to pop a few aspirin and go back to bed. For someone who wanted me to get out of bed so badly, Morgan certainly didn’t seem to have a need for me now that I was up.

“Do you plan on ignoring me much longer?” I asked, trying to spin an unfortunate orange on the tip of my finger like I had skills or something. All I ended up doing was shooting the soon-to-be-damaged fruit across the kitchen, almost popping Morgan in the back of the head.

She turned to glare at me but remained silent.

“If so, I can feel just as ignored by some of my clients and get paid for the time I spend dicking around.”

Morgan turned on the garbage disposal. Well, that was certainly an answer of sorts.

Pick your battles, Claire.

I retreated while I still could and took up an easy-to-defend position in my office. What the hell was up Morgan’s ass? It had to be my date with Linc, but I didn’t understand that any more than the more unlikely reasons. Wrap your brain around that one.

Hell, it’s not we were dating or anything. We had an understanding. And I sure as hell wasn’t wearing a chastity belt—we’d had conversations about my sex life and she didn’t seem bothered by any of that, so I just didn’t get it.

I might have to rethink the whole sleeping with women thing—they were too complicated. Ah, who was I kidding? That would be like turning down a dream vacation to Italy because it took too long to fly there.

I picked up my cordless and called one of my favorite customers.

“Dang, girl. Did you forget about the time difference again?”

I glanced at the clock. “Shit, sorry Vera. At least I called after eight this time.”

Vera chuckled, and I could hear sheets rustling in the background.

“Now you know,” her voice dipped low and sultry “I’d never mind waking up to you, but I’d definitely expect some spooning afterwards. You keep that in mind, Cookie, next time you interrupt my dreams.”

A smile split my face in two. I loved Vera, even if she never gave up trying to get in my pants. I knew it was never going to happen and so did she.

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