On Saturday, Gavin went to the
office extra early. He wanted to open yesterday’s mail and spend some time
getting his head together before he saw his first patient. His head had been in
the clouds ever since he saw Ruby yesterday and took their relationship to a
new level. The fantastic memory of their night and early morning hours together
had him more than a bit distracted this morning.
Forcing himself to concentrate
on work, Gavin began at the top of the mail stack with the brown envelope
marked ‘personal and confidential’. It had no return address on it, but it was
dated from a post office in Cleavertown. Inside was a plainly wrapped DVD case
with a typed note attached.
The note read: Are you sure you want to marry the town
tramp? If so, scenes 5 & 6 are bound to change your mind.
Letting out a harsh expletive,
Gavin ripped the brown cover off the DVD. Sure enough, Ruby’s picture was in
the right hand corner. She looked younger, slightly slimmer, and her eyes were
glazed. However, she did have a sexy smile on her face.
Gavin had seen that same smile
just this morning when he made love to Ruby in his hotel room. She stayed with
him in Cleavertown after they left his office last night. No doubt Ruby was
chosen for the cover because she looked like a younger version of Baywatch babe
– Angelica Bridges.
Who
would send this to me? Gavin mused. Mrs. Munsen? No, she’s too job scared for that.
His mind immediately went to the
next suspect – Ruby’s ex-boyfriend. Logan was the only one in town that had the
most to lose if she ever got married. Plus, if he had no problem showing that
video to her father, he definitely wouldn’t have a problem showing it to her
fiancé.
Gavin picked up his cell phone
and called Ruby to confirm his suspicions. She was at work early today, as
well. A pair of work clothes had been in the overnight bag that she brought to
the hotel since she had no intentions of going home last night. He had no
intentions of letting her as tired as they both were after everything they’d
done separately and collectively yesterday.
“Hello, baby, this is Gavin,”
he said as soon as she answered her cell phone.
“Hey, sugar,” Ruby purred. “What’s
up?”
Gavin’s anger instantly faded
away at the sound of her sweet voice. She sounded so happy to hear from him. He
hated to spoil the good mood she was in, so he decided to delay the main
purpose of this call a little while longer.
“How’s work going?” he
stalled.
“It’s going steady. I’m
helping Clayford with some engine work on a Dodge. At least I was right before
you called.” She chuckled. “I’m standing near the break room now watching him
try to figure things out on his own.”
“Clumsy Clayford?” Gavin
asked, quoting the nickname she’d given that particular coworker during one of
their many discussions. Clayford was the same coworker that she deemed her
father’s number one spy at work. Logan was Papa Hudson’s number one spy
everywhere else.
“Yep.”
“Good luck with that. I hope
your group insurance is paid up.”
“It is.” She laughed. “Now
what’s the real purpose of this call?”
Gavin smiled. He liked that
she knew him so well already. “Before I tell you that, let me tell you how much
I miss you.”
“I miss you more. My body is
still humming from what you did this morning. By the way, did you ever eat your
breakfast after I left?” she whispered.
“No.” Gavin chuckled. “But
that’s okay. Sometimes I like to eat pancakes in the mornings. Other times I
like to eat—”
“Don’t say it!” Ruby quickly
intervened.
“…other things,” Gavin
finished with a wide mischievous grin. “Are you blushing, Red?” he teased. He
liked making her blush. It reminded him of how flushed her skin looked when she
was very excited and/or climaxing.
“Uh…no?” she denied in
question form.
“Pretty little liar.” Gavin
laughed, momentarily forgetting about the DVD. Yet when he looked down at his
desk, he quickly remembered the purpose of this call and the smile left his
face. “Now on to why I really called.” He cleared his throat and became very
serious. “I called because I received a very interesting package about you in
the mail today. Actually it came in yesterday’s mail that I’m just now opening
today.”
“What kind of package? Wait, before you answer let me get my stool. I
have a feeling that I’m going to need to sit down for this.”
Gavin waited patiently during
the five seconds that it took for her to locate her stool and sit down. “The package
I received contained that DVD you told me about. The one you filmed in
college.”
“I see,” Ruby replied
solemnly. “You know, I ought to be used to this type of humiliation by now, but
it still hurts sometimes. Correction, it still hurts every time.” She took a deep breath and blew it out. “Did you watch
it?”
“No. I don’t need to. I have
the real thing,” Gavin said in a
soothing tone. “However, somebody obviously wanted me to watch it in hopes that
I would change my mind about marrying you.”
“Sounds like the work of my
ex-boyfriend – Mr. Logan Randall Benjamin himself,” Ruby deduced with ire
dripping from her every word as she cited his full name for the first time in
Gavin’s presence.
“Benjamin? Logan’s last name
is Benjamin?” he asked, recalling a
few disturbing things his father told him about the Benjamins of Blue-eyed
Hollow. One of which was the fact that he was to NEVER trust anyone with that
last name.
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