Page 8 of Love at First Flight
Arielle cried most of the night and Kadence sat up in bed, hating that her friend had been so hurt and broken over this.
She refused to let it stand any longer and when Arielle’s crying finally tapered off, she got up, and dressed.
She would get to the bottom of this if it was the last thing she did. She would give Gunner a piece of her mind.
Okay,not just a piece of her mind, oh no. She wanted nothing more than to rip into him good, and bite his head right off with her words.
Kadence drove across town to the building that housed the stupid real estate man’s office.
She refused to say his name again and was beyond pissed that her best friend was hurt by him.
She got on the elevator and jabbed the button hard to his floor and rode up, muttering to herself and so angry with that man.
When the elevator opened, she went straight to the biggest office, ready to throw the doors open in her anger, and not giving the man at the outside desk another glance.
It did give her a tiny pause to see that he was the one who always came to the store to bug them about it, and when he too recognized her, she raised her eyebrow at him in challenge, and shoved the office doors open and he yelled after her and jumped to his feet, chasing after her and she ignored the other man and turned to glare at Gunner.
“How dare you burst in here like,” the other man went to say and she held her hand up, “You and I will have words later. Right now, I am talking to that asshole.”
Gunner raised his eyebrows higher and the man from the desk said, “This is one of the women who owns the shop.”
Gunner winced and she spun back to him with one last glare at the other asshole.
She noticed that there were other men in the room, but refused to acknowledge them.
“That’s right. It’s hitting you. I am here for one thing, and it’s because of her than I am here.”
Gunner gestured for her to continue, “You are a selfish and greedy human being. Arielle and I have built that shop from the ground up and because you can’t find anywhere else to build your precious mall, you felt the need to intimidate us, treat us badly and threaten us with eviction. All we were doing was making a living, like you. Helping those who were and are less fortunate. And yet, you seem to think your business is more important than ours.”
She shook her head at him, “You broke my best friend's heart. She has never even looked twice at a guy, and yet the first one she sees, he ends up being a snake and only wanted to get her to let her guard down so he could take our hard work from us. From her. I hope you sleep tonight knowing you win.That we are done and will sign over the shop to you.Thanks for breaking her heart.”
She glared one last time and turned to leave, but the office door opened and the man who walked in looked at her, then at Gunner and then back at her so fast his neck cracked.
She shook her head, then pushed past the man from the office and toward the door, but the new guy blocked her way.
“Where are you going Fairy?” He asked and she glared up at him.
“Please move. I spoke my piece, now I am leaving.”
The guy grinned at her, “Fairy, you are so cute when you are angry.”
She was angry. So true. She wanted to ask what gave it away, but didn’t, leaving the comment unsaid, and hating that this handsome man in front of her was making her body yearn for his touch, but yet, he was the enemy.
She let out a growl and crossed her arms, “Please move. Lord. What is with guys like this?”
She heard someone snort and she turned her glare on him again.
Gunner talked to her for a minute, telling her that he didn’t know it was them.
Kadence scoffed at his words about how he wanted Arielle from the beginning, “Yesterday? Nice try. I know how lust works.”
The new man, the handsome blonde, looking like a sexy Viking, with his delicious dark green eyes, the infuriating one growled, and she shook her head, doing her best to ignore him.
Gunner walked to his desk, turning his monitor around, then picking up a picture and then showing her his phone.
There were all pictures of Arielle. In different poses and different angles of her looking at the camera or swimming or just sitting with the kids and smiling.
The one he had printed out was one of Arielle and Cassidy.
