Wooing Cadie McCaffrey by Bethany Turner

Author:Bethany Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance;Love stories;FIC042040;FIC027020
ISBN: 9781493417841
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

13

After a Day at the Lab

Whitaker, when I said we should get a drink sometime, this is not what I had in mind,” Kevin said as he looked up and down 109th Street in the dark. “You actually live here?”

Will unlatched the iron gate in front of the stoop of his six-story walk-up. “Oh, come on, Kev. It’s not that bad. It’s a great old pre-war building—”

“Which war?” Ellis interrupted him. “The Swiss Peasant War of 1653?” He chuckled at his own joke until he realized Kevin and Will were staring at him. “What? Unlike you uneducated jocks, I read and am continually on a quest to pursue the betterment of my mind.”

Will laughed while Kevin just changed the subject.

“You really make that commute every day?”

“Every single day. It’s not so bad, actually. We’d have made it a lot sooner if you two prima donnas hadn’t insisted upon taking a cab. The subway is much faster.” Will unlocked the door and held it open for them to walk in behind him. “When I was in grad school, this place was great. I could walk to campus in three minutes.”

“Hang on,” Ellis said as they entered the building. “I thought you went to grad school at Columbia.”

“I did.”

Will almost had the door closed, but Ellis stopped it with his hand and stepped back out onto the front stoop. He looked up and down 109th Street as Kevin had a moment prior, except with slightly more confusion etched on his face.

“Where are we, man?” he asked. “Seriously, where are we? I thought Columbia was on the Upper West Side.”

“It is,” Will replied with a laugh as he ushered Ellis back in once again and shut the door behind him. “I live on the Upper West Side.”

“Nuh-uh,” Ellis argued, shaking his head. “I live on the Upper West Side. This is, like, Harlem, man.”

“Not for another block or two.” Will motioned that they should follow him and began bounding up the stairs.

“No elevator?” Kevin asked, and Will could almost hear the exasperated expressions taking place behind him.

“No elevator. But for two big, tough, legendary athletes, I didn’t think a few stairs would be a problem.”

Kevin pushed him forward, while Ellis just took a deep breath and grumbled as they began their ascent.

“Tell me,” Kevin began, alternating the bottle of champagne he carried from one hand to the other. “Why are we coming to a party at your apartment in Morningside Heights—”

“Which is just a fancy way to say, ‘Might as well be Harlem,’” Ellis huffed as they rounded the corner to begin climbing the third flight.

“When we literally just left our offices downtown,” Kevin continued. “I know you aren’t much of a party guy, Whitaker, but for your information, there are a few bars in Lower Manhattan. On top of that, downtown is so close to Tribeca, where I choose to live because of its proximity to our aforementioned, recently departed offices . . .”

“Don’t dwell on the past, Swoosh,” Ellis said from a flight below them.

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