AN: Hi readers! Here's the next installment of Unexpected Second Chances. Just wanted to take a minute and thank the reviewers; knowing that you like my work warms my heart and makes my creative muse want to keep at it, so thank you. As always, all recognized content (including dialogue) belongs to Lifetime; I just own the plot bunnies that I use to make these outtakes. Please R&R!
It's The Cream Cheese Spread, I Swear
The first thing he notices when Jane walks into the office in the morning isn't her casual wear, but rather, who she walks in with. The two in question breeze past him and Kaswell, paying them no attention.
At the same time, an uncomfortable knot forms in his stomach. It's gotta be the cream cheese spread; I'll have to get one of the temps to get a new one.
He looks over at Kim, hoping that discussing the case that he's just kinda cornered her into will get that knot to go away, when he notices a look in her eye. Uh-oh.
He's been on the receiving end of that look; it's the "I want something, and I know that all I have to do is flit my eyelashes and I'll get it." Granted, he hasn't seen it directed at him in a while – especially not from Kim Kaswell, but he's a man – learning what that look signifies equals survival, and if nothing else, Jay Parker is a survivor (when it comes to the female species, at least).
Hold it, Parker. This could be a good thing.
"Mind if the new kid rides shotgun on this one?" she asks.
"Good thinking, Kaswell. We can bill him out and you can show him the ropes."
He quickly excuses himself, suddenly remembering the important phone call – and news for Jane – that he got this morning. As he watches Grayson walk away from her, he again feels a knot in his stomach but he pushes it aside.
Something's different. "Bingum." No, it's not the clothes. "You look different – did you do something to your hair?" The minute the words have left his mouth, he wants to kick himself; in the six or so years that she's worked here, he's never made those kinds of comments (at least not to her), so why's he starting now?
Damn that cream cheese spread.