They finally disconnect, and I almost sag off the chair and onto the floor when I’m finally able to relax my muscles. “Holy shit,” I breathe.
Jude turns around. “Sorry. I couldn’t get rid of the bloke.”
“No, not that!” I put my hand up against the side of my face. “Leslie! And you…You were a bad ass!”
He chuckles self-consciously and looks down at his feet. “Right. Well, uh, that. She never should have fucked with me. Maybe.”
I walk over to him and grab his arm. “Important lesson learned. Wow. You were, like, ‘This isn’t a request, Lezzlie,’ and she was like, ‘Huh? What?’ and then when she accused you of getting rid of her, you were so calm!”
Shyly looking at me through his lashes, he admits, “I was bricking myself on the inside.”
“Well, you looked cool as a cucumber. It was a total turn-on!”
“Really?”
“Yeah! But can we leave now?” I tug on his hand, pulling him toward the door. “I really wasn’t expecting my last day to be nearly thirteen hours long.”
Again he apologizes, but I put a finger to his lips as he hands me my jacket and purse. “Save it. The last thirty minutes made the other twelve and a half hours well worth it.”
He snickers. “I thought you’d like that.”
As he locks the office door, I whisper next to his ear, “You were right. Know what else I’d like?” He raises an eyebrow at me and turns his head to kiss me, but before our lips meet, I say, “How about showing the new girl in town the best place to get something to eat?”
The look he shoots me is priceless. But he laughs with me as we step onto the sidewalk, joining the throng of other people just like us.
The End
Also by Brea Brown
Find all of Brea Brown’s books, with links to different retailers, on her author page at Wayzgoose Press.
The Underdog series (chick lit/sports romance):
Out of My League (Book 1)
Rookie of the Year (Book 2)
Opportunity Knox (Book 3)
Ready or Knox (Book 4: spring 2020)
The Secret Keeper series (chick lit/Christian romance):
The Secret Keeper (Book 1)
The Secret Keeper Confined (Book 2)
The Secret Keeper Up All Night (Book 3)
The Secret Keeper Holds On (Book 4)
The Secret Keeper Lets Go (Book 5)
The Secret Keeper Fulfilled (Book 6)
The Nurse Nate series (chick lit/romantic comedy):
Let’s Be Frank (Book 1)
Let’s Be Real (Book 2)
Let’s Be Friends (Book 3)
Stand-alone novels:
Daydreamer (2019)
The Family Plot (2020)
Plain Jayne (2020)
Quiet, Please! (2020)
Find all of Brea Brown’s books, with links to different retailers, on her author page at Wayzgoose Press.
About the Author
Brea Brown lives in Springfield, Missouri, where she’s a wife, a mother, a chauffeur, a housekeeper, a chef, a personal assistant, a cheerleader, and an amateur comedian. (She thinks she’s funny; her kids would disagree most of the time.)
Her passions include writing, daydreaming, laughing, binge-watching shows, and political activism.
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