Sawyer (Alluring Indulgence #7)(35)
Author: Nicole Edwards

Not much different from a couple, Sawyer realized.

“All right. Have fun,” Sawyer told him.

“I certainly plan to,” Luke replied with a wicked gleam in his eyes before he turned and made his way to the main doors that led to the lobby.

When Luke walked away, Sawyer headed toward the hall that would lead to the administrative building. It was the same hall that Mack and Jeff had headed down because ultimately it broke off into another area. He was halfway down the hall when he heard voices coming toward him. As he passed the attached hallway, he found himself looking into the sheriff’s concerned eyes.

Yeah, Endsley, not sure it’s a secret anymore, Sawyer thought to himself. Before he could turn away, the two men put several feet between them after Jeff turned and said something to Mack.

Without a second thought, Sawyer started in their direction, noticing the anger reflecting in Jeff’s gray eyes the closer he got.

“Hey,” Sawyer greeted when he was within a few feet of them both.

“It’s not what it looks like,” Mack said quickly, the guilt in his tone belying the words.

“There’s nothin’ for you to be worried about,” Sawyer assured Mack before looking over at Jeff. “What y’all do here is between the two of you. It’s no one else’s business.” Neither man said anything, so Sawyer continued, “I’ll just be on my way. Hope y’all will enjoy your stay.”

Without another word, Sawyer headed back to the offices, trying his damnedest to forget the cold, hard glare Jeff had passed him before he turned away. It was true, what they did together was none of Sawyer’s business. And he fully intended to forget everything he’d just seen.

And soon.

THE MOMENT KENNEDY stepped through her front door, she kicked off her shoes and made a beeline for the kitchen. She needed a drink. Something strong enough to relieve some of the stress from the day. It’d been one hell of a week so far and the rest of it wasn’t looking to be much better. Without a receptionist or an additional tech to take the strain off Olivia, Kennedy was having to deal with a very tired, very grumpy woman at the office. Normally one to go with the flow, Olivia was beginning to show signs of her exhaustion, and Kennedy had no idea how to help her. She’d already put ads in the paper, hoping to hire someone, even if it was only temporary, but there weren’t any applicants yet.

None. Zero.

Maybe it was because Christmas was getting closer, she didn’t know, but she was at the point she was willing to hire the first person to walk through the door as long as they knew how to answer a phone.

Pulling out a glass and the wine she had put in the refrigerator the day before, Kennedy poured a full glass and then headed toward the living room. Dropping down on the sofa, she put her feet up on the table and sighed. Her feet hurt, her head hurt, and the only thing she really wanted to do was go to sleep. If only her brain would turn off.

That didn’t seem to be happening though because her mind quickly filled with thoughts of Sawyer. Thoughts that she should’ve left alone, but she couldn’t help herself. She continued to wonder what had happened to him. After he’d brought her a late lunch last week, she hadn’t seen or heard from him. Not that she should’ve expected any more. He had probably moved on to better things when she insisted that she wasn’t going to give in to him.

Part of her wished he’d been a little more persistent, but again, she shouldn’t have been surprised. He was the same old Sawyer no matter how much she wanted to believe otherwise. If she had to guess, he was probably getting busy with some floozy at the resort where he worked. The sex resort, she reminded herself.

Why in the world would she be interested in a man who ran a sex resort? A place where people went to do . . . whatever it was they did there. She had no idea, nor did she want to know.

Okay, so maybe she was a little curious. But just a little. Not enough that she would ever consider going inside. No one she knew would ever step foot into a place like that. Hell, her father had even warned her away from that place on more than one occasion.

He wasn’t usually the type of man to offer his opinion on something he knew little about, but when Alluring Indulgence Resort had sprouted in town, he’d been the first to inform her it was no place for a woman like her.

She remembered that conversation, strange as it had been.

“What do you mean, a woman like me?” Kennedy asked, confused as to why her father seemed so against the resort. Based on the numbers that Travis had presented to the town, it was going to be beneficial to the overall economy.

“You don’t wanna know what goes on there,” Jeff explained. “It’s not for good girls. That’s what I’m gettin’ at.”