9:00 AM Morning Meeting at RangeMan
"Hit me" Lester said his hand turned upward sitting across my lap under the conference room table
Opening the small red bag I'd gotten from my sister earlier, I dropped a couple of the tangy salted squares of my smuggled in snack into his palm. Taking a few of the crackers for myself, I tried to chew quietly when I felt Lester's hand slide over my thighs again.
"Hit me" he said and I looked down into my bag of snack crackers
"I only have a few left" I told him wanting to eat them myself
"Come on Beautiful" he whined
"Les" I said looking to see if Ranger could hear us or not "I've been sharing with you and now there is only a few left, it wasn't a big bag it was one of them small snack sized ones"
Before work this morning I had drove over to my sister's house. It was one of them see if your alive and to show that I'm alive thing rather then I'm your sister and I love you sorta things. Val was in the kitchen making her two oldest girls lunches before school. She had a box sitting on the counter that had three small bags of Cheez-its, Val dropped a bag into each girls lunch box and gave me the last one.
"I've never really had these before" I said looking at the small packet in my hand
"The girls love them and Lisa is still to young to have them so take them" she said
"You sure this is your last pack"
"Yea I'll go get some more when I go do my shopping after the baby's nap"
"Ok, Thanks gotta run" I told her running out the door on my way to work
"Hit me" Les said tapping my lap with his hand bringing my thoughts back to the meeting
"No I don't have but a few left" I told him
"Want me to tell Ranger about our kiss the other night in the truck when we were on the stake out?"
"You tricked me" I ground out
"I love truth or dare" he said getting that mischievous gleam in his eye that only Lester had.
"You asked me my weight of course I'm going to pick a dare"
"Share or I'll tell Ranger"
"Well for your info I'm not his girlfriend. I'm a single girl so if I want to kiss you or anyone in this building I can" I said sticking my tongue out at him
"Good because you didn't hesitate or hold back when you kissed me you were all over this the other night" he said pointing his two fingers at himself. He was right, it was an awesome kiss.
"Had to it was a dare and that's the rules" I said
"Uhh huh just the dare"
"What's with you and the cheez-its?" I asked knowing he was all over my crackers
"I love them, always have but I don't get a lot of them because of your boyfriend up there" he said looking up at Ranger
"He's not…" I protested
"Yea yea just that every time you're around he's touching you or kissing you. Face it Plum you're his"
Just for that and for the threat of telling about our truth or dare game we were having on our stake out, I stuck the last remaining cheese crackers in my mouth, leaned over, and crunched loudly in Lester's ear. Lester grinned and shook his head at me as I chomped. I had one more large piece of cracker in my mouth that I was eating and when I bit into it a sharp pain ripped through my jaw and I quickly ran my tongue over my teeth, wincing when I found a chunk out of one.
"Owww" I cried my hand flying to my mouth. Everyone including Ranger looked over at me. Jumping from my seat, I raced to the nearest bathroom.
"Babe" Ranger asked me as I was washing my mouth out with water
"Sorry" I said when he came to my side
"What's wrong?"
I placed my fingers into the side of my mouth and pulled it open for him to see inside. Ranger angled my head into the light so that he could see better.
"Ahhh you broke a tooth" he said eyeing me
"How in the world could a crack…" I was saying but stopped so I wouldn't let on that I had a snack in the meeting. I looked in the mirror at my broken tooth when Ranger sat the empty cheez-it bag down on the counter.
"This was lying in the floor next to your chair" he said looking at me in the mirror
"Ranger I…I…Lester wanted my last few… and"
"Save it we'll discuss contraband later, we need to get you fixed" he said grabbing his phone off his belt
Five minutes later I had an appointment with Rangers private dentist at seven o'clock. Only thing was I had no intentions of going because I'm deathly afraid of dentists. There's is just some doctors you just don't want to go to and avoid at all costs. With me its Gynecologists and Dentists and right now I would go to the Gyno than to the Dentist that's how bad I hate them.
6:00pm Joe's House
"So that's why I'm roped into this" Joe asked now having heard why I needed to hide
"Yes, you're a cop and know how to hide people" I said
"Cupcake I usually find them not hide them, now Ranger on the other hand"
"Joe shut up on Ranger" I said and then heard car doors shutting
"Stay there" he said going over to his front room windows
"Shit" I heard him say