Chapter 5
CHAPTER
FIVE
I got ready for work in a daze. The last few months had felt so gray. Like I’d lived in glorious technicolor for a moment, and now I knew what I was missing. The only brightness came from the pictures that hung on my walls, moments captured as proof that it had all been real.
Luckily, I’d gotten my job back. When I’d gone for my exit interview with HR, and they’d asked me my reason for leaving, I’d told them the truth: I’d caught my manager banging my boyfriend. I wasn’t even angry about it anymore.
Apparently, HR took managerial misconduct seriously, and they’d pulled the video footage from outside her office.
They saw Cade go in, and unfortunately for my boss, when I’d walked in on them like a complete dumbass, I’d left the door open so you got a good thirty-second clip of Cade plowing the field, so to speak.
My boss had been sacked, I’d been reinstated with a slight promotion, and my new manager was a sixty-year-old no-nonsense woman with what appeared to be one hundred grandchildren, judging by the pictures in her office. Productivity was up, I got a bonus, and it all seemed to be for nothing.
I looked down at the squiggle—I’d named it Bob—who was on my wrist today. Still murky green. Still melancholy. Wherever he was, Uko was as miserable as me.
I drank my coffee, not sure I could face another day of my life. Maybe I should move home. Or try for a brand new start somewhere else.
All of a sudden, Bob the squiggle imp launched down my hand to my index finger, changing from murky green to brilliant blue.
“What the hell?” I murmured, raising Bob to my face. “What’s going on with you?”
There was a knock at the door. “Delivery!” someone yelled, kicking the door with a thump.
Probably my order of demon romances.
I opened the door and gasped when the redheaded hunter, Rella, was there, grinning. “You owe me one.”
Then she disappeared, and the person behind her made me squeal. His huge smile made my eyes water and my heart explode in my chest.
“Uko!”