Page 17 of Legend's Legacy
Chapter 6
Legacy
PERFECT DISTRACTION:How are you feeling?
ME:I’m better. Thanks for checking.
PERFECT DISTRACTION:Still staying away from the elevators?
ME:You already know.
PERFECT DISTRACTION:Take care, beautiful.
I was not playingwhen I told Legend that I would not be back on those elevators. At lunchtime, I walked down all twelve flights of stairs in my high heels and hiked it to my car. My calves would be popping if nothing else. Of course, my ass was already sitting up high like a donkey, but the walking couldn’t hurt.
Once I changed out of my heels and into a pair of gym shoes that I kept in the trunk for my yoga workouts, I stuffed my heels into a plastic bag and returned to the building. I walked into one of the cafés, ordered lunch, and headed outside to sit at a table.
The weather was a balmy seventy-two degrees, and I was enjoying it. I managed to snag one of the rare tables by the concrete waterfalls in the outdoor courtyard.
“May I sit with you?” Legend asked after I had been sitting for five minutes, eating my sub sandwich.
“I don’t own these seats.”
He smiled that beautiful smile at me and cocked his head. “Is that mouth always so fly, ma?”
“Do you always speak hood when you’re not around your office mates?”
Legend turned his lips down and shrugged. “I do speak one way here at the office and in a more relaxed and comfortable tone when I’m at home around family and friends. Don’t you?”
“I do. But you were just so refined the night that we met. You were almost guarded for the lack of a better word.”
“I had a lot on my mind that night that I was dealing with.”
“Is that why you blew me off?”
“If that’s what you call it.”
“That’s exactly what it was.”
“No, love. I just wasn’t in the mood for games. I wasn’t in the right headspace to entertain a woman either.”
“Then why didn’t you send me on my way for good?”
“Because you had trouble on your mind. And I saw real trouble lurking around that you weren’t prepared for.”
I sipped my tea and pulled it from my lips as I nodded. “Right. The motorcycle club.”
“They’re not the type you want to play with, sweetheart. They’re the real deal.”
“Oh, I believe you.”
“Good. I just wanted to make sure that you got to a safe place to sleep that shit off, and I prayed that you would be of a sober and more reasonable mind the next morning. I didn’t expect the attitude though.”
“I was embarrassed, Legend.”
A gorgeous smile curved his lips upward.
“What’s so funny?”
