Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 23393 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 117(@200wpm)___ 94(@250wpm)___ 78(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 23393 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 117(@200wpm)___ 94(@250wpm)___ 78(@300wpm)
Chapter Four
Kyra
“How could you do this?!” Linda shouts as she sits on her desk and glares at me.
I sink into the chair with my arms crossed and look up at her.
“I was doing this for you.”
“For me?!” she shouts. “What are you crazy?! Have you lost your mind?! How could sabotaging the sale possibly be for my benefit? You were doing this for you, so you wouldn’t lose your job.”
I shake my head, even though there might be a kernel of truth in there. “I was doing it for you. I swear! You’re going to go on a trip and have fun for a week or two, and then what? You can’t sit still, Aunt Linda. You’re going to go nuts with nothing to do all day! You’re going to drive yourself crazy and then you’ll miss working here and it will be too late. The company we built together will be gone!”
She sighs as she looks at me.
“I’m not going to change my mind, Kyra,” she says in a softer tone. “This has been on my mind for over a year.”
“A year?”
She nods.
“I thought you… liked working here with me.”
“Nothing has made me happier,” she says as she slides off the desk and sits in the seat next to mine. She grabs my hand and leans in. “But I need a new adventure. I need to get out of this office and into the world. I’m not getting any younger, Kyra. I’ve been alive for sixty-two years and I’ve been stuck in an office for forty-three of them. I want out.”
“You’re not going to change your mind?” I ask as the painful realization starts to sink in.
She shakes her head as she smiles sadly at me.
“I’m sorry about the way I sprang it on you,” she says, tapping my hand. “I should have given you more time to process it. It’s just, Mr. Raven called out of the blue and, I… I had to take the opportunity.”
Butterflies flutter in my stomach at the mention of his name.
I knew he was hot, but… Seeing him in person is a whole other ordeal. I can still feel his big strong hand tingling on mine.
“I’m sorry I tried to sabotage the deal,” I say, feeling awful. “That was… immature of me.”
Aunt Linda chuckles. “It sounds like something I would do,” she says with a laugh. “We’re more alike than I even thought. What did you put in that lotion anyway?”
“Glue,” I say with a laugh. “The washable, non-toxic, kids’ kind. She’ll be alright. Pissed, but alright.”
“She was the lawyer,” Aunt Linda says with a smile. “She’ll forget all about it when she gets her big commission check from the sale.”
“I hope.”
“And what about that Brandon guy?” she says with a grin. “He seemed to like you.”
I burst out a laugh. “Yeah, right.” Like he would be interested in me. He probably has a supermodel girlfriend. Or two.
“I’m serious!” she says. “He couldn’t take his eyes off you!”
“He’s a shark, Aunt Linda,” I say rolling my eyes. “He’s using his good looks to get my guard down so he can take advantage and lower the price of the sale. He’s trying to honeydick me.”
“Honeydick?” Aunt Linda says with an expression that makes me laugh. “What the heck is that?”
“He’s trying to seduce us with his hot smile, big muscles, tailored dark blue suit, and then just when we’re in the palm of his soft sexy hand, he’s going to fuck us on the price. That’s honeydicking.”
Aunt Linda grits her teeth as she narrows her eyes on me. “He’s not going to get away with that. Let’s dick his honey right back!”
“That’s not how you… Nevermind. Let’s do it!”
She bursts up, but then immediately sits back down. “Wait. How exactly are we supposed to honeydick him?”
Someone knocks on the door.
“Come in!” Aunt Linda shouts.
The door swings open and Brandon Raven’s beautiful face is revealed. My heart immediately starts beating harder than it did in the conference room.
This man is unbelievably hot. It’s scary.
Just one second of those sexy brown eyes on me and I’m ready to lay on the desk and let him honeydick the shit out of me. He can honeydick me all night long.
“We’re glad you’re here, Mr. Raven,” Linda says as I try to stop my legs from trembling. “We’re so sorry about that unfortunate mixup. Kyra accidentally grabbed the pile of boxes that were meant to be destroyed. We were trying some unorthodox methods with our products. We try putting everything in our products at She’s The Sun to see what works best.”
“Even glue?” he asks in that deep rich voice. The rumble seems to travel along my skin, giving me goosebumps in its wake.
“Even glue,” Linda says with a swallow. “I can assure you that our ready-to-ship products will not be tainted like those ones were. It was an unfortunate accident.”