Page 5 of Seizing Mack
The dread that had been building in her belly since the beginning of their conversation exploded. Mack laughed through the sudden urge to lay waste to everything around her.Crafty old codger. “You knew I would say yes, didn’t you?”
“I knew my baby wouldn’t let me down,” he affirmed, managing to imbue enough affection in those few words to have her eyes tearing up. That kind of pissed her off, because Macknevercried. “I love you, baby.”
“I love you, too, Daddy.”
Mack hung up the phone and inhaled deeply, held her breath for several seconds, then let it out. Then she did it again. And again. Until she could keep the torrent of unladylike curses from being readily audible by anyone not within a ten foot radius. As the owner ofSeize— the premier fitness center for miles around — she needed to show more professionalism than that.
Pfft,her inner voice scoffed.No one who knew her would be surprised if she let a couple f-bombs drop. But she held them in anyway.
She briefly considered locking herself in her office, closing the blinds, and hiding before anything else reared up and bit her on the ass. First, her morning receptionist Chrissy decided to elope without warning, leaving the front desk unstaffed, and now Evil Princess Dee was flying into town (quite possibly on a broom) and Mack had to figure out what to do with her for the next couple of weeks.
Clearly, fate was feeling salty. What other surprises would this day have in store for her?
