The Man Behind the Legend by Stella

Author:Stella [Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GFY Publishing
Published: 2018-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

“Carrotcart.” Carl’s making fun of my last name did nothing other than cause me to roll my eyes and ignore him. “I heard you were making a Starbucks run.”

I looked around, unsure of who he’d heard that rumor from since I’d been sitting across from him for the last hour and hadn’t said a word, and he hadn’t left once. “From who?”

“Martin.”

“When did you talk to Martin?”

“I just figured since the two of you are in a relationship that you’d be making the trip to fetch your beau his favorite java before the meeting at one.”

“That doesn’t even warrant a response.”

“Yet you gave it one. Don’t be so defensive. If you guys are trying to keep the zip-and-slide on the DL, getting riled up just gives you away.”

“The what?”

“You know…zip”—he pinched the air in front of the zipper on his pants and animatedly acted out pulling it down—“and slide.” And then made the worst impression of rolling his hips forward in slow motion. It wasn’t so much the action of any of it—or even his ridiculous phrase—that left me staring at him like he’d just escaped from a clinical drug trial gone wrong. It was the way he only closed his lids halfway, fluttered his eyes, and opened his mouth with his tongue sticking out to one side. Seriously, if this was his O face, he might as well marry his hand now, because that’d be the only thing that would stick around afterward.

I glanced at the clock, needing something other than Carl to look at, and noticed the time. I was due upstairs in less than ten minutes. Unsure of what I might need, I gathered a pen and paper. Then it occurred to me how asinine it would be to show up to a team meeting with a legal pad instead of an iPad. Without the device, I wouldn’t be able to see the same things they saw on the company portal, and I doubted anyone would want me hovering over their shoulder and breathing in their ear. But having both couldn’t hurt, even though there was a Notes app on the iPad that eliminated the need for anything to write on or with.

“Where are you heading?” he questioned with a suggestive tone and ridiculous wink.

If I hadn’t seen him do it a thousand times before, I would have assumed he’d sneezed without making a sound. “Is my schedule not listed on your fancy calendar you’ve been staring at all morning?” I indicated the sheet of paper he’d tacked up earlier.

“Oh, no. That’s Patrick’s—”

He stopped speaking when my cell rang inside the desk drawer.

“Loverboy wants his coffee. Grab me a latte while you’re out.”

I scowled at him and then my phone. Candi’s name on my caller ID in the middle of the workday couldn’t be good. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a choice not to answer it or she’d go to voicemail, and she was the last person I wanted to hear my company greeting—I’d be explaining more than my odd visit to her house; I’d be explaining my connection to Chris.

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