The Job (New York City Bad Boy Romance #2) by Claire Adams

Author:Claire Adams [Adams, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0186SOLHU
Published: 2015-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Finally, I settle on what seems to be the best version of damage control available to me at the moment, and I write, “Hey, sorry I’m late. I’ve had a bit of a family thing and it’s taking me a bit longer to get out of here than I thought.”

There: no bad clams, no “I’ll be right there,” just a plausible excuse that’s going to let me tell her that I won’t be able to make it with little to no fallout.

Maybe that’s the key. Maybe I just need to keep convincing her on both fronts that I’m a standup guy then, when the moment’s right, I can tell her the truth about everything and it’ll all come out perfectly.

That’s exactly what I need to do: Just keep my plans vague enough that I never actually have to act on any of them and I can just stay here in limbo while I try to figure out just how much I like this woman.

I know that I like her, but that’s about all I know at the moment. Well, and that she constantly looks so good. Every inch of her.

My phone chimes and I look down.

The message reads, “Okay. Well, Kristin and I are going to be here for a while, so just let me know when you’re here and we’ll meet up.”

“All right,” I write back. “Hopefully I shouldn’t be much longer. I’d hate to miss the chance to meet you.”

“Hey, what are you doing?” Jessica asks just as I’m sending the text.

“Waiting for the bathroom,” I tell her.

She cocks her head to one side. “It’s upstairs.”

I keep forgetting that she actually knows Irene.

Her phone beeps and she checks it.

“Right,” I tell her. “I must be thinking of my place.”

What the hell kind of excuse was that?

“Oh yeah, fuck me, baby!” Irene shouts from behind the closed door at the end of the hall.

“Well, okay,” Jessica says laughing.

“What are you doing?” I ask.

“I was going to give you and your—ahem—friends a little privacy,” she answers as her eyes plead for me to let her leave the hallway.

“It’s really not like that,” I tell her. “I just wanted to get a little bit of privacy so I could make a phone call, but it sounds like this really isn’t the best place to do that.”

“I thought you said you were waiting for the bathroom,” she says.

“Yeah, I guess I…” my brain utterly fails me right in this moment where I need it the most. “To be honest, I don’t really know why I said that. I guess I was just looking for a plausible excuse so you wouldn’t think I was just back here to get an earful of whatever it is they do to each other in there.”

“Next time,” she says, “maybe just go for the ‘wanting to make a call’ thing first. That might make it a lot more plausible.”

I’m humiliated, but Jessica gives me a slight, but sincere smile.

“Why did you come back here?” I ask as she turns again to leave the hallway.

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