Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
“Be here to walk you back to your car when you’re done with work?” he asked. “Yes.”
I flashed him a relieved smile. “Good.”
He touched the tip of my nose with one finger, then opened the door to the sleep center for me.
No kisses or overt displays of affection, but enough to let me know that I was going to be on his mind.
“Oh, excuse me. Thank you.”
I jumped, but Dima didn’t seem surprised to find a man walking up to us.
“You’re welcome,” came Dima’s smooth, dangerously soft voice.
I looked from the man to Dima and said quietly, “Do you have my number?”
His eyes flicked down to me, then right back up to the man that’d gone to the desk to check in with the receptionist. “Yeah.”
“Text me tonight,” I said. “I don’t have anything but your email.”
“Will do,” he said. “Watch out for that one.”
I frowned. “Do you know him?”
“Not yet,” he said, like he was about to do a deep dive into the man’s personal life.
I winked at him. “There are several other people here besides me. I’ll be okay.”
“Hmm,” he said. “Call me if you need me.”
IE, call him before I go calling 911.
The scary part was, I was fairly sure he’d get here before the authorities ever could, and I’d be way safer because of it.
I went up onto my tippy toes, and still, he was too tall.
Staring up at him expectantly, his eyes warmed and he met me more than halfway.
Jeez, the man was tall.
“Be safe tonight, whatever you’re doing,” I urged.
His eyes gleamed at that. “Yeah, I’ll do that.”
I didn’t like my new coworker, and I especially didn’t like the patient that’d come in for his sleep study tonight.
The good thing was, I was very much never going to see this man again.
The second good thing was, despite my coworker being useless, the doctor that was helping today wasn’t completely useless.
Luckily, he was one of the ones that didn’t go to the back break room and go to sleep during the shifts. Unluckily, my new coworker, Melody Edams, had a crush on him and flirted with him to the point where I knew that if they were alone, they’d totally be doing it in the break room.
It was like I wasn’t even there.
For hours now, they’d been flirting and acting like they were two seconds away from ripping clothes off and fucking each other.
And I was done.
So overly done.
I hated this job.
Even worse, I hated my other job more.
A job that I refused to get any compensation for, and now had to go visit when I was done here.
If I was lucky, I’d be able to catch some drive through McDonald’s before I headed that way.
If Copper was smart, though, he’d have it ready for me.
Speaking of Copper…
“Hello?” I answered his fourth phone call of the night.
“A couple of weeks ago, there was a board meeting discussing a merger between Real Estate Ark-La-Tex and Castanon,” he started out without a greeting. “In the board meeting notes, it specifically said that you were opposed to the merger, and that you didn’t agree, and were the deciding vote for it. Yet, a contract is on my desk right now for the merger.”
I frowned, trying to go back to the day we’d talked about a merger, and came up empty.
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I can’t remember anything about it.”
“In the board meeting notes, it specifically says that you were appraised, and opposed.” He paused. “But, as I’m looking at it, I don’t see anything else said by you at all.”
I was too tired for this. “I don’t remember anything about it, Copper. I’m sorry.”
“Okay,” he sighed. “You’ll still be coming in after work? I have a few more things I want to go over with you.”
“Yeah,” I yawned. “Why are you there so late?”
“Well,” he paused. “There’s a lot to catch up on. And about ten years of neglected paperwork and quality control issues. Which coincide with you taking over CE.”
I grinned. “I did the best I could.”
“I know.” I could tell he was smiling. “It’s still here. And fully functional, if not a little…problematic. Once I get the board members straightened out, and the weak links out of the building, I’ll get it straightened out.”
“Are you getting me food, or will I be responsible for getting my own?” I yawned again.
“I’ll have it delivered,” he said. “Chevy and Cutter will be here, too.”
“Okay.” I yawned for a third time. “Have coffee.”
“I’ll do that,” he teased and hung up.
I yawned for a fourth time and then got up to get some paperwork done.
I was very tired today.
When I had days off, I tended to flip back to my normal sleep cycle of night sleeping. When I had to make the flip only for a night like I did this time, I tended to be extremely tired, like I was right then.