Sultry in Stilettos by Nana Malone

Author:Nana Malone [Malone, Nana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: interracial romance, Collections & Anthologies, Humor, Romantic Comedy, in stilettos series, Romance, Multicultural, Series, Humor & Entertainment, nana malone, Multicultural & Interracial, Comedy, Short Stories, Humor & Satire, Contemporary Romance, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781480274693
Google: QDCxNAEACAAJ
Amazon: B00A64ETZW
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-11-11T10:27:22+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

It wasn’t exactly like she’d run away. Okay maybe a little. As Ricca took the back stairs up to Fantasies, she leaned against the railing for support. Like a coward, she’d run from Beckett. And now, she was killing herself taking the stairs just so she could avoid running into him in the elevator, on the off chance he arrived at work early.

Her phone buzzed again. Another text. From Beckett. She snatched the phone out of her purse and glanced at it. We need to talk.

Shit. All his texts had said something like that.

“I guess someone’s tired of waiting,” she mumbled to herself as she rounded onto the ninth floor.

She’d woken to Beckett wrapped around her like a cocoon, and for several decedent moments of bliss, she’d relished being in his arms. But then her brain had started to work, and she realized that what was in store for her was either a totally awkward morning-after conversation or an empty bed with Beckett’s side cold. To her knowledge, he’d never stayed with anyone he’d slept with. Not once. So she’d made the only decision she could—she ran to Micha’s.

Jaya would have taken Ricca in, but it would have put Jaya in the awkward position of having to put Beckett off when he called. Ricca dragged in a breath. One of these days she’d stop running from her problems. But that day is not today.

Cranking open the door to the eleventh floor, she checked the hallway. To make sure her heels didn’t make a sound, she carried them. She took the path with the tall cubes down by the kitchen. She was short enough that she couldn’t be seen over the tops.

Having learned her lesson, she peaked into her office window before going in. She couldn’t deal if he was waiting for her again.

“Oh, thank God,” she mumbled when she finally made it to her office and locked the door behind her. The way she figured it, she’d be better equipped to deal with Beckett after today. She’d had some time to think about what to say to him. And so far she hadn’t come up with anything good, but she was sure she would.

Her bunched muscles finally started to relax once she got into her work day a little. She had two fantasies coming up this week that she had to put finishing touches on. A rattling sound in her closet startled her. “What the hell?”

Frowning, she went over to the spacious closet and checked it. In the darkness, she didn’t see anything until the far wall started to rattle again, then she caught the light gleaming off the metal door knob. Shit. She’d forgotten that this building was a former hotel. When the builders had renovated it, they’d left some of the doors as connectors. She and Beckett had one of those doors between their offices

When the door to his office jerked open, she stumbled back several feet. “Damn it, Beckett, you scared the hell out of me.”

He scowled as he came through the closet and occupied the archway.

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