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“Good. That makes this easier.” Mrs. De Leon plopped into the seat by the desk.
Faith glanced over at the big man nervously. Was he just going to stand there?
“Oh, sorry. Ms. Blossom, this is Rafael. He’s supposed to be my bodyguard, but he’s more like a huge pain in my ass.”
“I can ensure that you have a pain in your ass by telling him where you are,” Rafael said.
Was that a threat? It sounded like a threat.
The other woman turned to glower at Rafael. “Nobody likes tattletales. Snitches tend to wake up with a penis drawn on their head. In permanent marker.”
Wow.
Either she was very brave. Or very crazy.
Faith didn’t know which. But she did know that she wouldn’t threaten Mr. Muscles like that.
She turned to Faith with a wide smile. “Sorry about that, Ms. Blossom.”
“That’s okay. And please call me Faith.”
“But Blossom is such an awesome name,” Cat said. “I think I’d go around introducing myself to everyone like that. Hey, I’m Blossom.”
“Um. I guess it is.” It had seemed like fate when she owned her shop.
Blossoms Flowers.
Yeah. Turned out it wasn’t fate so much as a freaking disaster.
“Can I help you, Mrs. De Leon?”
Cat wrinkled her nose. “Yuck.”
What was yuck? Alarm filled her.
“Call me Cat. Mrs. De Leon doesn’t suit me at all. She sounds stuffy and old. My Papi said that Reuben is out of town.” She glanced around, almost as though she expected Reuben to suddenly appear.
Her Papi?
Who was that?
“Cat,” Mr. Muscles said.
“What?” Cat asked.
“Papi?” Rafael repeated.
“Blossom here doesn’t care. We’re about to be best buds.”
“We are?” she asked.
“Uh-huh. Your man and my man are best buds, so that’s what we’re gonna be.”
“Oh, um, well.” Shoot. How did you explain this? “Reuben and I aren’t . . . I work for him.”
Not entirely true.
Cat’s eyes narrowed and she leaned in. “Best buds don’t lie to each other, you know.”
