Page 49 of Grumpy Sunshine

She had a fork of what looked like the chocolate cake in one hand, and her other opening the window.

I frowned.

Why would she have her window open when it was so damn hot outside?

It might be ten at night, but it was still ninety degrees.

Frowning still, I walked around to the side of the building, taking my cake with me, intending to drop it off at her door, when I stopped next to the air conditioner units.

None of them were on.

That was strange.

There was no way that they shouldn’t be running right now.

And maybe if one wasn’t running that would be normal…but all of them?

I’d been hearing the air conditioners run from the apartment building behind me for an hour now.

At least one of them should be on…

I looked down as I passed and realized the problem.

The copper had been stolen from the units.

Goddammit.

Pulling out my phone, I gave Hagrid a call.

He answered on the first ring.

“Sup?”he asked.

“I have a situation,” I said as I gave him all the details.

“I’ll send a crew out,” he said.“Probably take about fifteen minutes to get there, though.”

I hung up, then went ahead and ordered some pizza.

Since I didn’t know what she liked, I ordered a couple of them, as well as adding a shit ton of breadsticks and dessert pizzas.

I waited on the side of the building, cake in hand, for them to get there.

The pizza guy and Hagrid’s crew showed up at the same time.

Leaving Hagrid’s crew to do what they would, I headed upstairs and found the apartment that I knew to be hers.

Knocking on the door, I waited for her to arrive, then questioned whether it was too late when it took her a long time to get to the door.

Just when I was about to leave, the door cracked open, and a brown eye poked out to look at me.

That brown eye widened, and she closed the door in my face, only to open it again without the chain.

“Chevy!”she said in surprise.

I blinked and stared at the beautiful woman in front of me.

I’d seen what she was wearing from the ground, but up close and in person was enough to make my knees slightly weak.

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