this stupid item for him, surely I deserved to know what it
was. One little peek wouldn’t hurt...besides it’s not like he’d ever know I looked...
A loud honk snapped me out
of my temptation. I came this far. It’d be a shame to screw up now.
Before long, we pulled up to
the front of the Bishop building, the past few minutes a complete blur. I
quickly handed the driver a few large bills, the equivalent of ten times what I
had pay and glanced at my cell phone. I had five minutes left.
Immediately after the driver
said “Goodluck”, I raced up the steps toward the building entrance, dodging the
occasional person here and there. Just as I reached the top, my heels snagged
on the last step and I tumbled to the ground, the bag flying several yards in
front of me.
“Jeez Lori, are you all
right?”
I scrambled to find my feet,
purposely ignoring whoever called out. I didn’t have time to chat.
“Let me help you with that.”
Just as I spotted the box
that had tumbled out of the paper bag, two masculine hands scooped it up.
“Give it to me!” I cried
frantically, like a mother crying for her child.
As I snatched the bag from
the ground, the hands offered the box to me. I hastily dropped it inside the
bag, feeling absolute dread that the contents might have been damaged. I sped
through the building to the elevators and punched the button. A ding sounded
and I silently thanked the gods that there was already one waiting for me.
Although I had made a mental note on my first day that the elevators were fast,
the ride up to the twenty-sixth floor felt agonizingly slow. As soon as the
metal doors opened, I tore across the building, ignoring Susan on my way as I
arrived at Trevor’s office door.
My phone indicated I had a
whole thirty seconds left to spare. Overcome with joy, I prepared to knock in
triumph. Suddenly, an image flashed through my mind of Jordan handing me the
box. On the cover was an explicit rendering of a woman inserting an enormous
pink object into herself. Big bold letters at the top read “Dr. Frankenstein’s
Butt Stuffer”.
My hand flew to my mouth.
What. The. Fuck.
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