Jealous in July (Spring River Valley Book 7) by Clarice Wynter Page B
Authors: Clarice Wynter
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car, Brenda stared at her phone, but nothing happened, not a ring, not a text, not so much as a blip. Was he ignoring her?
She glanced up at the dark windows of Mitzi’s condo and considered the devastation she’d seen up there. She hadn’t lied when she’d said she’d been through it, and she didn’t want to go through it again. Loving someone was a big risk. She was already frantic wondering if she’d hurt Chase too badly to heal the rift between them. Like Mitzi, she had no idea what to do next. She wanted Chase back, but was it already too late to fix the damage she’d done?
Chapter Eleven
Brenda arrived at her desk the next morning in a dark mood. Chase had never responded to her messages , and her first call to his work number bounced to Danielle Lennox’s voice mail.
Apparently he was now going to great lengths to avoid her.
With several more frantic requests from Mitzi to fulfill and her co-workers dropping by her desk all morning to find out how her visit to the Dragon Lady’s condo had gone, she didn’t have much time to brood about the sorry state of her love life until almost noon.
Just as she was preparing to head to the cafeteria, Dani appeared at her desk, a stack of file folders clutched against her chest. “Hey, how’s it going?” she asked. “I hear you got called to the royal residence yesterday.”
“I did, and I can’t talk about it.” Brenda held up a hand. She’d already been offered a free lunch, movie tickets, and a thousand dollars to spill all the details of her time in Mitzi’s condo. Though she doubted the sincerity of the last offer, she knew people were buzzing about the crash and burn of the not-so-secret office love affair. The only person who hadn’t been by her desk hoping for a juicy tidbit today was Riley…well, and Chase.
“Oh, I’m not asking.” Dani grinned. “Officially, that is. Anything you want to spill privately, well, I can’t stop you, but that’s not why I came by.” She looked over her shoulder as though she had some deep secret to hide and slyly pulled a white envelope out from the center of the st ack of folders she held. She dropped it on Brenda’s desk. “Read that, and then shred it.”
“Shred it?” Brenda eyed the plain white envelope and snatched up her letter opener. “Here’s the dagger ; where’s the cloak? What’s all this top secrecy about?”
“I’m not at liberty to say. I’m only the messenger.”
“Hmm.” Brenda slid the folded paper out of the envelope. Neatly typed on the thick sheet of stationary was the cryptic note:
THE ROOF. 5:15
“It’s from Chase,” Dani whispered before disappearing around the cubicle wall. By the time Brenda got up to follow her, she was gone.
Her pulse kicked up a notch. He’d ignored her attempts to contact him last night, and now he was commanding her to meet him on the roof? All this hush-hush spy stuff, only to set up a rendezvous on company property? Had he lost his mind?
Her phone rang , and she jumped on it, startled by the sudden noise interrupting her thoughts. It was Dani, who’d apparently made it back to her own desk in record time. “In case you’re wondering, he’s in meetings all day, otherwise he would have delivered the note himself.”
“Dani , do you have any idea what this is about?” Brenda whispered, then caught herself and cleared her throat. “I know you and Chase are friends. What’s he up to?”
“I honestly don’t know. He asked me to deliver the note because he can’t get away from his meetings. That’s all.”
“All right. I’ll take your word for it.” Brenda hung up. Instead of shredding the note, she tucked it into her purse and headed for the cafeteria.
Halfway to a corner table, after declining several lunch invitations she knew were prompted only by her co-workers’ need for gossip, a familiar voice interrupted her thoughts.
Riley leaned over to whisper in her ear as she passed. “Let’s talk.”
What she
She glanced up at the dark windows of Mitzi’s condo and considered the devastation she’d seen up there. She hadn’t lied when she’d said she’d been through it, and she didn’t want to go through it again. Loving someone was a big risk. She was already frantic wondering if she’d hurt Chase too badly to heal the rift between them. Like Mitzi, she had no idea what to do next. She wanted Chase back, but was it already too late to fix the damage she’d done?
Chapter Eleven
Brenda arrived at her desk the next morning in a dark mood. Chase had never responded to her messages , and her first call to his work number bounced to Danielle Lennox’s voice mail.
Apparently he was now going to great lengths to avoid her.
With several more frantic requests from Mitzi to fulfill and her co-workers dropping by her desk all morning to find out how her visit to the Dragon Lady’s condo had gone, she didn’t have much time to brood about the sorry state of her love life until almost noon.
Just as she was preparing to head to the cafeteria, Dani appeared at her desk, a stack of file folders clutched against her chest. “Hey, how’s it going?” she asked. “I hear you got called to the royal residence yesterday.”
“I did, and I can’t talk about it.” Brenda held up a hand. She’d already been offered a free lunch, movie tickets, and a thousand dollars to spill all the details of her time in Mitzi’s condo. Though she doubted the sincerity of the last offer, she knew people were buzzing about the crash and burn of the not-so-secret office love affair. The only person who hadn’t been by her desk hoping for a juicy tidbit today was Riley…well, and Chase.
“Oh, I’m not asking.” Dani grinned. “Officially, that is. Anything you want to spill privately, well, I can’t stop you, but that’s not why I came by.” She looked over her shoulder as though she had some deep secret to hide and slyly pulled a white envelope out from the center of the st ack of folders she held. She dropped it on Brenda’s desk. “Read that, and then shred it.”
“Shred it?” Brenda eyed the plain white envelope and snatched up her letter opener. “Here’s the dagger ; where’s the cloak? What’s all this top secrecy about?”
“I’m not at liberty to say. I’m only the messenger.”
“Hmm.” Brenda slid the folded paper out of the envelope. Neatly typed on the thick sheet of stationary was the cryptic note:
THE ROOF. 5:15
“It’s from Chase,” Dani whispered before disappearing around the cubicle wall. By the time Brenda got up to follow her, she was gone.
Her pulse kicked up a notch. He’d ignored her attempts to contact him last night, and now he was commanding her to meet him on the roof? All this hush-hush spy stuff, only to set up a rendezvous on company property? Had he lost his mind?
Her phone rang , and she jumped on it, startled by the sudden noise interrupting her thoughts. It was Dani, who’d apparently made it back to her own desk in record time. “In case you’re wondering, he’s in meetings all day, otherwise he would have delivered the note himself.”
“Dani , do you have any idea what this is about?” Brenda whispered, then caught herself and cleared her throat. “I know you and Chase are friends. What’s he up to?”
“I honestly don’t know. He asked me to deliver the note because he can’t get away from his meetings. That’s all.”
“All right. I’ll take your word for it.” Brenda hung up. Instead of shredding the note, she tucked it into her purse and headed for the cafeteria.
Halfway to a corner table, after declining several lunch invitations she knew were prompted only by her co-workers’ need for gossip, a familiar voice interrupted her thoughts.
Riley leaned over to whisper in her ear as she passed. “Let’s talk.”
What she
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