Page 19 of His Flash Mate
“Are the updates working?”she asked.
“I think so.It seems busier afterward.”
“They’re working,” Uncle Jay said, having heard us.“Sales are up enough to pay for your shot tower.”He winked at Miranda and went back to serving.
She stared after him for a moment, looking thoughtful.
“Interested?”I asked with a grin.
Her expression shifted, and she gave me a lopsided grin.“Why?You want to call me auntie?”
I snorted and put my trash into the takeout bag.
“He’s worried about something.He keeps watching the door every time someone comes in, which is a little weird since he has someone carding at the door.”
I glanced at the door and saw he’d added someone there.
“That is weird.I’ll ask him about it.”
“I don’t think you should,” she said.“His scent is concerned and protective.If he knows you know something is going on, he might not confide but push you away.At least, that’s my experience with the scent combination he has.If it were a perfume, it would be named guarded, and I’m not sure if he’s the guarded one or if he’s guarding.”
I stared at her for a long moment, then leaned in and kissed the tip of her nose.
“Have I told you how much I love that appendage?”I asked.
“Am I interrupting something?”a familiar voice asked.
I turned and met Konni’s heart-melting amber gaze.
CHAPTERFOUR
“Yeah,my girlfriend is telling me how much she loves my nose,” Miranda said.
Konni’s gaze held mine for a silent beat.“Girlfriend?”
My love for Miranda’s nose dwindled because I knew damn well my shifter best friend could smell how much I was lusting after the dangerously gorgeous man standing a foot away from us.
“You’re not interrupting.I was just about to start my shift,” I said, standing.
He took the seat I’d vacated and watched me throw away my takeout.Miranda watched him watch me, a knowing smirk on her face.
“What can I get you?”I asked him, ignoring her.
“A mocktail.Something sweet.”
“You got it.”I made him a Shirley Temple and charged him twenty again.Miranda’s humor rose.
“Are you going to drink those shots or donate them?”I asked her.
“Why?You want one?”
“No thanks.Going in hungover during my first week will probably earn me even more disdain.”
“Every office has its bitches.Ignore ‘em,” Miranda said before tipping back a shot.
“I thought Steele Corporation had a positive work environment,” Konni said, listening to us.
“I never said I was working at Steele Corp,” I said.
