Better Late Than Leopard (A BBW Shifter Romance) (Sunset Valley Book 2) Read Online Free Page A
Author: Alannah Blacke
those lines? I'm sorry I know that's not much to go on, but I really appreciate it."
With a smile, Cindy went back to work, looking through her room bookings. this time she didn't take long before finding a result.
"I have one room booked as of yesterday for an undetermined amount of time under the company Aerodyne Construction & Design. Would that be it?"
"Yes, I'm positive! Thank you so much!" After she got the room number Ella rushed for the elevators, more excited than she had been in quite some time to see Jake. Whatever it took to set things right, she would do it for him she knew now. There was just nobody else out there for her. It had to be him, or it would be no one, and that wasn't an outcome Ella was prepared to settle for.
She emerged onto the tenth floor, following the sign to the right where it said Jake's room number was located. He was all the way at the end of the hall, but before long she was standing right outside of his door. Her arm wouldn't move. She tried, but no amount of mental force could get her arm to reach up and knock on the door. Her entire system was freezing, preventing her from doing anything but standing there still as a statue.
"Ella?" The voice of surprise and excitement came from down the hallway. She turned to face it, the fact that she knew the voice intimately only hitting her later. There, emerging from the elevator looking dashing in a suit and tie, was Jake.
"Ella what are you doing here?" He rushed up to her, enveloping her in a hug. Some mechanical part of her brain managed to respond, her arms hugging him, softly at first, but then harder as she began to realize this really was happening.
"We need to talk about this," she finally responded, forcing the words out.
"Yeah, sure. Let's talk, I've been wanting to talk since you drove off, I'm so glad to see you're willing to talk." He rushed the words out as if afraid she would run off. Again. Then he just stood back and waited for her to speak.
Feeling a little silly, she looked around them, at their location. This definitely was not the ideal place to be talking about his secret. Turning her gaze back to him, she wondered how long it would be before he clued in.
Blinking at her stare, he finally seemed to get it. "Oh, umm yeah, did you want to come inside?"
"Yes, please." She almost giggled out loud at his obliviousness sometimes. He was so eager to make things right with her, that he was not thinking about the rest of the world. It was cute to know even after she was so rude that he still seemed to care for her so much.
"I'm sorry Jake," she said finally as they were seated in the lounge area of his suite. She wasn't sure what else to say, but first and foremost that had to be said. Even as the words tumbled off her lips, a weight seemed to remove itself from her shoulders. Things could progress normally now, they could make things right between them.
"I'm sorry too, Ella. I thought you knew. I would never have done that if I thought it would scare you."
"It's okay Jake. I realize it's not your fault, though I may have acted like it at the start. In hindsight, analyzing why you changed in front of me told me that you had thought I knew."
"Absolutely. I was going to try and tell you that I had no intentions of harming him, only scaring him off. Obviously I didn't get that chance though."
"Yeah, sorry again about that. But Jake listen, this has been bugging me so much. Why did you think I knew? We never talked about that at all. Ever. I feel like it's something I would remember."
He eyed her speculatively there for a moment, almost as if he wasn't sure whether to believe her or not.
"Ella, what's the name of the place that set us up?"
"Paranormal Param-" Her jaw snapped shut as the pieces finally clicked. The name of the dating site, Stacey's cryptic comments about the certain types of people they cater too. It all made sense now.
"How did you even find that site if you didn't know about us? It's quite hard to
With a smile, Cindy went back to work, looking through her room bookings. this time she didn't take long before finding a result.
"I have one room booked as of yesterday for an undetermined amount of time under the company Aerodyne Construction & Design. Would that be it?"
"Yes, I'm positive! Thank you so much!" After she got the room number Ella rushed for the elevators, more excited than she had been in quite some time to see Jake. Whatever it took to set things right, she would do it for him she knew now. There was just nobody else out there for her. It had to be him, or it would be no one, and that wasn't an outcome Ella was prepared to settle for.
She emerged onto the tenth floor, following the sign to the right where it said Jake's room number was located. He was all the way at the end of the hall, but before long she was standing right outside of his door. Her arm wouldn't move. She tried, but no amount of mental force could get her arm to reach up and knock on the door. Her entire system was freezing, preventing her from doing anything but standing there still as a statue.
"Ella?" The voice of surprise and excitement came from down the hallway. She turned to face it, the fact that she knew the voice intimately only hitting her later. There, emerging from the elevator looking dashing in a suit and tie, was Jake.
"Ella what are you doing here?" He rushed up to her, enveloping her in a hug. Some mechanical part of her brain managed to respond, her arms hugging him, softly at first, but then harder as she began to realize this really was happening.
"We need to talk about this," she finally responded, forcing the words out.
"Yeah, sure. Let's talk, I've been wanting to talk since you drove off, I'm so glad to see you're willing to talk." He rushed the words out as if afraid she would run off. Again. Then he just stood back and waited for her to speak.
Feeling a little silly, she looked around them, at their location. This definitely was not the ideal place to be talking about his secret. Turning her gaze back to him, she wondered how long it would be before he clued in.
Blinking at her stare, he finally seemed to get it. "Oh, umm yeah, did you want to come inside?"
"Yes, please." She almost giggled out loud at his obliviousness sometimes. He was so eager to make things right with her, that he was not thinking about the rest of the world. It was cute to know even after she was so rude that he still seemed to care for her so much.
"I'm sorry Jake," she said finally as they were seated in the lounge area of his suite. She wasn't sure what else to say, but first and foremost that had to be said. Even as the words tumbled off her lips, a weight seemed to remove itself from her shoulders. Things could progress normally now, they could make things right between them.
"I'm sorry too, Ella. I thought you knew. I would never have done that if I thought it would scare you."
"It's okay Jake. I realize it's not your fault, though I may have acted like it at the start. In hindsight, analyzing why you changed in front of me told me that you had thought I knew."
"Absolutely. I was going to try and tell you that I had no intentions of harming him, only scaring him off. Obviously I didn't get that chance though."
"Yeah, sorry again about that. But Jake listen, this has been bugging me so much. Why did you think I knew? We never talked about that at all. Ever. I feel like it's something I would remember."
He eyed her speculatively there for a moment, almost as if he wasn't sure whether to believe her or not.
"Ella, what's the name of the place that set us up?"
"Paranormal Param-" Her jaw snapped shut as the pieces finally clicked. The name of the dating site, Stacey's cryptic comments about the certain types of people they cater too. It all made sense now.
"How did you even find that site if you didn't know about us? It's quite hard to
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