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I pulled into LoveBubble’s parking lot and felt the burden of depression sink onto my shoulders. How you haven’t managed to save me from this place, I don’t understand. What is the point of you if not to come to my aid when I’m in need?
“I’d advise you to steer clear while I work,” Kat said. Then she leaned over to my side of the car and kissed my cheek. “But after work...we should finish our date. I’ve always wanted to be immortal.”
She left my door open when she headed back into the front doors of my prison.
Felicity found me before I even made it past the water cooler. “Oh Alexei, honey! Do you think I could borrow those strong muscles of yours? Just for a sec?”
“I’m very busy ignoring your request,” I replied, scooting past her.
“I need someone to get the new water jug up into the cooler, is all. Bit heavy for someone as delicate as me.”
Felicity had a good bit of plump to her, but she also had tiny little arms that, I was quite certain, were entirely useless. How she managed to haul so many bagels about on a daily basis was a true marvel.
“I have calls to answer. Complaints to file.” I wanted to sever my own tongue for saying such words. But it was true. Everything about my banishment at LoveBubble was real. I had to do the work of a human resources manager. I had to...resource...humans. But I didn’t have to help Felicity hoist water jugs.
“Well ahoy there, bub!” Keif appeared, blocking my path away from the stout woman with the needs. He hauled up his khaki pants and wiggled his mustache. “A team player plays for the team, Al.”
“If you ever call me Al again—”
“Why don’t you pitch in? Help our little miss Felicity out? Hm?”
“Why don’t you pay the water delivery person to assemble the dispenser when he drops off the containers? Hm?”
“Well—”
“Your arms are fine. Do it yourself.”
“Part of being a team player—”
I reached my hands toward the LoveBubble regional manager but I could not wring his neck, or snap it, or break it over my knee. I couldn’t touch him. Such was my curse.
“Oh dear,” Felicity muttered.
“Move, Caroline.” I grabbed the water jug and slammed it into the dispenser hard enough for the entire contraption to disintegrate, water flooding the ugly carpet. “There.” I looked Keif dead in the eye. “I hope you’re pleased. Because that’s what happens when Alexei Vladel is asked to perform menial tasks.”
I grabbed the incessantly ringing phone at my cubicle and lifted the receiver to my ear. “What?!”
“Hi, you bloodsucking rage machine, you.”
Her voice purred into my ear and I shivered. I looked around, the phone still to my face. “Sweets?”
“Mhmm...”
“Where are you calling from?”
“Nowhere. Just thought I’d tell you that was a magnificent display of watery violence back there.”
“Don’t tease me.”
“But you’re so teasable.”
“I will not be belittled.”
“Nothing about you seems little, sir.”
I want her. I want her with vehemence. Aggressively. “Where are you now? And why is it not here?”
“Still busy.”
