Andrew: Lanning’s Leap: Erotica Shapeshifter Romance (Lanning's Leap Book 5) Read Free Page A

murders most of the time, and the rescue was never really any more than body retrieval. He had been burnt out long before Misha had asked them if they wanted to continue doing it. Andrew had his desk cleared out that same day and had gone looking for someplace to unwind.
    It had taken him all of twenty-four hours to realize that he wasn’t cut out to be a man of leisure. That vacations were not what he’d needed. And that the women that he’d dated in the past were no longer something he wanted. He had four of the best women in his family now in the way of sisters, and everyone else had failed to make the cut.
    Leaving his house to meet up with Misha and two more of his brothers, he drove by the cable company again. He didn’t go in but sat in the parking lot just looking at it. He had no idea why, but he had a feeling that something was going on there and he wanted to crack it. Smiling when he thought he sounded like Murph, he started his car up and moved to the restaurant. It was time for some fun.
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    Laci sat at her desk and watched the others get ready for their shift out of the corner of her eye. Really, getting ready didn’t mean the same to them as it did her. She was working, they were bullshitting and having a good time. As she dug out her head set and the pens and paper she’d brought from home, she wondered what they were going to do when in thirteen days she was gone.
    Giving her two weeks’ notice had been hard. The job was paying the bills, yes, but it was getting harder and harder for her to come to this stupid job and not get the kind of money she was supposed to be making. They were ripping her off and everyone knew it. They thought—and she supposed rightly so—that she was a sap. But she was done with that too.
    Her first check had been wonderful. The sales commission money that she’d worked her ass off for was going to make such a difference in their lives. It had amounted to well over what her hourly check had been, and she’d cashed the check and put a large portion of it in her stash. If they had to run again, and that was a forgone conclusion, she wanted money to do it on.
    Then her next check had come in. It was considerably less than it should have been, by hundreds of dollars. Most of her commissions were gone…no reason for it, just not on her check. Not only were they not on her check so she could get paid for them, but someone had gone into the computer and changed her name to those of the people she worked with on the work orders. She knew there had to be some sort of computer issue and had decided to talk to someone about it.
    After getting in to her appointment to see her boss, Blair Warren—he’d canceled on her four times—she was seated in his office. Her entire shift of customer service personnel had been there as well. Laci had her sales reports in hand, having printed them up each night when she was done for the day, as well as a list of the names that had been changed to someone other than her. She thought she had been ready.
    “You’re a very good customer service rep. The best this company has had since I’ve been here.” She thanked him, not sure what he was up to. “The rest of them, the others on your shift, can’t even hold a candle to the amount of sales you have in one week. Not even if they worked for an entire month.”
    “Yes, that’s what I wanted to talk to you about. Their names are on some of my sales. I don’t understand.... Maybe we should do this in private.” He just shook his head. “All right then. I have my nightly sales report for the week that this check should have covered. As you can see, there is over nine hundred dollars in sales that have been changed to show someone else made the sales. I was—”
    “I know. I did it. So?” She could only stare at him, with not even a clue as to why he’d do it. “I don’t see what the problem is. You make more than the rest of them and that’s why I did it. And I will continue to do so.