“I’m supposed to be shopping; I need to find a new shirt.”
One that closed over her giant tits?
Stop it.
I mentally slapped myself.
“It’s dark and dangerous. You can’t handle yourself alone.”
“Guess you’re my new shopping buddy, because I was ordered to buy new clothes that are befitting the assistant ofthe assistant of the secretary of Manhattan’s most stuck-up, negative-Nancy billionaire,” she shot at me.
“I am not shopping with you.”
I picked Lexi up around the waist and hauled her the final few feet to my car.
“I’m telling HR on you,” she threatened as I practically threw her in the back seat and slammed the door shut. She brightened when she saw the paper sack. “Yum, is that cake?”
“You can’t have any,” I said automatically as she reached over the passenger seat.
“I won’t tell HR or hot-stuff McLawyer that you were manhandling me if you let me have the cake.”
Her backside was practically in my face as she rummaged for the food in the bag.
I let out a breath, trying to ease my grip on the steering wheel.
What if I hadn’t been there? What if I had arrived too late? What if—
She’s safe now.
“Just take the whole bag,” I told her with a sigh.
“Score!” Lexi and the bag retreated to the back seat.
“Best deal ever.” The paper sack rustled as she dug around for the cake.
“No, a better deal would be if you had extorted me for money.”
She wrinkled her nose.
“That’s mean. You shouldn’t blackmail people.”
“You just blackmailed me,” I reminded her. “So that makes you a hypocrite.”
“No, that makes me someone who just got her free cake early,” she said happily.
“Your what?”
“Er … never mind. Dang, the fanciest restaurant in Manhattan, and they can’t even give you so much as a plastic fork.”
She leaned down and took a big bite out of the top of the slice of cake.
I was so startled I almost ran into a parked car, earning me a litany of curses from said car’s owner and horn honks from the cars behind me.
“Don’t do that,” I said sharply.
“Then keep your eyes on the road. Honestly, you rich guys you spend all your money on fancy cars and then don’t know how to drive them.”
I ground my teeth together.
