DEFENDED BY LOVE BY KERI LANE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Keri Lane
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Time. There’s never enough of it. The restraints of its dwindling availability
force me to use every last morsel to its fullest.
I wake up in the morning and check my phone. I fire off emails before I’m
even out of bed. I think about work in the shower. I go to work. I eat lunch at
my desk, repeating a constant refrain of ‘just one more minute and then I’ll
leave for the lunchroom’. I stay late, not even bothering to flaunt my incredible
dedication to my bosses as they file out at a reasonable hour. Much. (Okay, I
flaunt a medium amount, making sure to sigh and bustle around a little extra
when they sidestep me as I race to and fro, reveling in the adjacent praise that
they throw out with platitudes about noses and grindstones.)
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And now, because apparently that all wasn’t enough, I’m sneaking back into
the office at nearly midnight in the middle of what’s shaping up to be a
weatherman’s wet dream. A storm—a big one—builds around me as I dart
through the side streets. Ducking and diving between awnings and overhangs
of any sort, even though they offer me little protection from the rain that
somehow assaults me on all available angles, I navigate my way to the
monstrosity of a building that I call home.
I mean work.
Shit.
My attitude with work has left the cute quirk stage and moved fully into
obsession territory.
Actually, this might be even beyond that. Now that I’m within range of the
security cameras of my building, I tug up my hood and obscure my face from
the multiple cameras that survey the skyscraper that houses Felton & Nichols.
Usually companies are more concerned with how to keep people inside the
building and on-task, not keeping them out to avoid extra working. That gives
me the advantage with this B & E.
B & E. How did it come to this?
It all seemed so reasonable to me this morning. Tomorrow, the building is
being fumigated, so at the end of the workday, the place was secured. We were
ordered (quite insensitively, if I do say so myself) to enjoy ourselves for several
paid days off. Just like that. No warning. Just a cold email with a mocking
smiley face at the end of my digital heartbreak. Thanks for the mini heart
attack, Beth, our cheery office manager. All the cupcakes, cards, and parties
mask the masochistic monster who cruelly sends us on a vacation without any
offer of emotional support.
What a bitch.
And so, after everyone left, I snuck down the back emergency exit
staircase, taped the door so that it couldn’t manually lock and made my plan to
come back in the dead of night to sneak some files back to my apartment so
that I can continue during this heinous hiatus. The security system would still
be engaged, so it wasn’t like I was leaving the building completely vulnerable. I
just gave myself a little in.
Funny—it’s only once I’m dodging security cameras, soaked to the bone
and pondering what arguments I could use to reduce my sentence should I be
caught, that it occurs to me that this is crazy.
I am crazy.
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