I'm All Yours (8 page)

Shit, that
sounded sick
,
and borderline
creepy.

“So I know the size
and brand when I buy
you a new pair,” he added.

He
smiled thinking how he’d
somehow
known
that Evie Winters favored red undies.

The doors opened
,
and a handful of
people
stood outside waiting. Kyle
quickly grabbed his dark glasses
from his pocket
and put them on, hoping he wouldn’t be recognized. Evie turned toward him, smiled, got out and walked away without saying a single word.
He noticed a business card on the floor and guessed she must have dropped it when she’d pulled
out the baggie
for him.
He leaned over to pick it up
.

Perfect Pairing
:
M
atchmaking
service like no other. Sadie Sutton
,
CEO.

H
e slapped it
repeatedly
agains
t his palm
while stepping
out of the elevato
r. He glanced
at the card again. The company’s address was in this very building. He’d hazard a gue
ss that’s where Evie had been
this afternoon
.
He doubted she’d been there to inte
rview someone. In fact, he
had a feeling
she’d been there to sign up for its services.

Kyle looked at the card
again.
He had an idea and hoped
that Ms. Sutton would cooperate.

Chapter Five

Sadie jumped when she noticed
N
adine standing in the doorway. In fact,
she was
l
eaning against the jamb and breathing so hard
that
a strange wheezing sound escaped from her lips
.
She hadn’t expected her back from the conference
,
let alone
her
st
o
p
ping
by Perfect Pairing
’s
Los Angeles
office
. Sadie eyed the pitcher of lemon
ade. If Nadine found out about it
she’d know that Sa
die had broken one of the
strictest rules
.

“The elevator was out,” she said steppin
g into Sadie’s
office
and slumping down
on the chair in front of her
desk.
Nadine
held her chest, still breathing heavily
. “I decided I wouldn’t wait
,
so I
took the stairs. I could have handle
d
them when I was one hundred
,
but once you get
to
two hundred and fifty you’re no longer in your prime.”
She coughed
and wheezed again.

Sadie swallowed a few times. Oops, my fault the elevator got stuck
,
too.

Nadine glanced over at the cabinet by the window.
Oh no.

“I could
use s
ome of that lemonade,”
said Nadine standing.

Sadie stood, hopin
g to get to it before Nadine
,
but she wasn’t fast enoug
h. Nadine poured herself some
and then downed the whole glass.

Her eyes grew wide
r
with each swallow that she took
.
“Sadie Sutton, what have you been up to
? This is laced with Potion 67.”

“Now how did that get in there?” asked Sadie.

“Who
m
did you
prepare this for?” asked Nadine lifting up the glass. “I hope it wasn’t a mortal?”

Sadie pretended she hadn’t h
ear
d Nadine’s question and instead
rushe
d back to her desk, pretending
to look
through her notes.

“Sadie. Do I have to report back to the Council that you’
ve reverted to your bad ways again?”

Sadie shook her
head. If she did
they’d
most likely
take Perfect Pairing away from her
,
and it’s the last thing she wanted. Playing matchmaker
this way
was so much fun.

“Remember the couple I was telling you about
?
T
he pair that hate
s
one another?”
asked Sadie.

“You can’t
go around slipping potions into their drinks thinking the
y’ll suddenly like one another if that’s what this is about,”
said Nadine.

“They’re a perfect pair
.
I know it
,
but they just needed a slight push
,
so I made him…”

“Him what?” asked Nadine.

“I just gave a little…”
Sadie brushing her hands through the air.

“W
hat’s a little?” asked Nadine, mimicking Sadie’s finger movements.

“Temporary erectile dysfunction.”

“Sadie, it’s forbidden for a witch of your rank to m
ess around with things of that nature
. It’s also ag
ainst the
rules to use potion 67 without the proper
permit
,
and never, ever on mortals. Do you know what this can do to them?”

She knew exactly
,
so
she
didn’t need Nadine reminding
her how far she’d bent
the rules for this couple.
Sadie flopped down on her chair. If she lost Perfect Pair
ing
, she
’d
resign
as a witch.

Actually
,
can I do
that?

“She’
s sign
ed up
,
and after I hexed the elevator
…
”

“You’re responsible for me walking up thirty floors?”

Sadie bit her tongue
. Why can’t I keep my mouth shut?

“
I expect him to stop by anytime because I flipped my business card out of her purse when she exited the elevator.”

“You mean the two of them were trapped in the elevator?”

“Oh yes, a good fifteen minutes. I thought they could chat and settle their differences
.
T
hat’s
why I gave her the potion to make her more reasonable and open to
…
”

“Potion 67
is
not for that
.
I
t’s
the most potent
aphrodisiac
.
N
o
wonder
I heard a women scream
ing
like she was having an orgasm as I made my way up here. They did a little more than
just
chat.”

“Oh, I thoug
ht the passion one was Potion 65
.”

Hope she doesn’t know I’m lying.

Nadine stood. “You’re working for the Department of Love, not sex
,
and
I hope for your sake a solid relationship results from your meddling
because if it doesn’t I
’ll
have to report to Margery.”

Sadie stood and walked Nadine to the door. “I promise you I’ll have good things to report next time we speak.”

*
***

Kyle
checked the card one more time, hoping he had the correct suite number
. Perfect Pairing was the next office on the left. He opened the door and
stepped inside seeing a middle-aged woma
n sitting behind a
large oak desk do
ing
a double take as he got closer.

Please don’t ask for an autograph. In fact, don’t even recognize me.

“Can I help you?”

“Yes, I was wondering if I might have a few minutes with Ms. Sadie Sutton.”

“C
an I ask your name and what it’s regarding?”

“Yes, Kyle Daley
,
and I’m thinking about becoming a client of
Perfect Pairing.”

“
One moment
, Mr. Daley
,
and I’ll see if she’s available. In the meantime here’
s an application form for you to fill in.”

“Thank you.” Kyle took the clipboard and sat down. He wrote down his name
,
and
then in the space where it asked the type of partner he was
looking for he just wrote Evie Winters.

“Ms. Sutton said she can see you straight
away. If you’d like to come this way
please
?
”

Kyle stood, putting the clipboard under his arm as he followed the receptionist through a glass door and down a corridor to a plu
sh office at the back where who he assumed was
Sadie Sutton sat behind a desk with a pair of
glasses perched on the lower part of her nose
. She was probably in her mid-
fifties, red hair, freckles
,
and by the look o
f it, a
little on the chubby side.