THE BIG MOVE (Miami Hearts Book 2) by Lexie Ray

Author:Lexie Ray [Ray, Lexie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-21T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

It would’ve been nice to land another escorting gig, to help me on the way to the ransom money, but something about taking on new customers after the evening I’d had with Xander felt wrong. What we’d shared was special, way beyond the kind of pretend intimacy that escorts and their customers sometimes shared.

Instead, I kept returning early to the club and staying late, cleaning and dancing and flirting my way toward the insurmountable sum I’d been given.

It would’ve been nice to hear from Xander, but I didn’t. He knew where I worked, but he hadn’t shown up, not for another date. I understood that perhaps he’d woken up and decided that once had been enough. I’d been expensive for him, and he’d poured his heart out to me. It made sense to me that he probably wanted some distance. A man could be strange after confiding in a woman — particularly if he didn’t know her very well.

I thought about him too much. I realized that. I understood that I had a fascination with him that went beyond the professional, and I figured that it was because I had too much time on my hands. Even with the extra shifts at the club, there wasn’t much more Parker could throw my way, and I found myself unable to sleep much at night. I would be out wandering the city in the long hours before the club opened up for the day.

It was during one of these wanderings that I ran into someone completely unexpected.

“The Corn Queen says you should eat some nachos!” a giant corncob bellowed into my face as I walked blearily down the street. “You’re way too skinny, girl! Get in here and chow down — oh! Sol! I didn’t recognize you!”

Jennet, completely ensconced in a corncob costume, threw her head back and laughed riotously.

“I’m so sorry for yelling at you,” she said. “I yell at everyone like that, trying to get them to eat junk food this early in the morning. It’s insanity.”

A passerby eyed Jennet and me suspiciously.

“Junk food is good for you!” Jennet hollered, making the man jump and walk away quickly. “Do you hear me? It’s good for your soul!”

She cackled again as her shout echoed down the street, making the man hunch forward in an effort to hide himself.

“This job has its perks sometimes,” she said. “Come on inside. I’ve been out here for a solid hour. A Corn Queen needs her breaks, you know.”

Still unsure of just what was going on, I followed her into the tiny snack shop. In her costume, Jennet barely fit herself, coming perilously close to upending a vat of nacho cheese warming on a countertop. She squished one young customer against a refrigerator before extricating the kid and shuffling into a corner and plopping down in a folding chair beside a card table. She waved her hand at an empty chair, slightly rusted, and I took a seat, pretty sure that’s what she wanted me to do.

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