I love Saturdays! Don’t you? 🙂
What follows is a snippet from a work in progress, tentatively titled “Hate to Love you.” Sybren is tired and annoyed, and Rio isn’t making things easier.
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For all that he was brilliant, Rio, my regional manager, was also an arrogant fuckwit with perfect teeth and a Napoleon complex.
He was grinning at me on a Saturday evening after the coffee shop had closed. I reeked of spilled liquids and numerous lattes, and was drooping fast. Yet the asshole was still sitting here, smiling at me while fresh as a daisy in his freakishly well-starched white shirt, expensive suit, and subdued tie.
“Didn’t take your vitamins this morning, Sybil?”
“It’s Sybren, and I would thank you to remember it,” I said, growling and snappish and ready for my bed.
“I know, my dear, but it’s the only way I could think of the help you keep your eyes open. It worked, didn’t it?”
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At the moment I’m betting Sybren would like to close both of Rio’s eyes by blackening them. That would certainly help him wake up!
Oh, and another typo spotted: “think of the help you” … shouldn’t “the” be “to”?
Indeed. 🙂 Probably so, re: the typo…this is a work in progress, so errors will occur. 🙂
My dear… in the right tone it crawls on me like being called honey or sweetie, but I love fuckwit. Nice Snippet!
Thank you 🙂
Heh, I think he can find a better way to help him keep his eyes open. Good snippet, J.D. I found a typo around “yours eye open”, if you’d like to know. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Fixed it. Good thing this is just a draft. 🙂
Oooh, enemies to lovers! Yummy! 🙂
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Oh wow, Rio seems like the type of character who brings conflict to the plot by driving the main character crazy! Fun snippet!
Thank you. Yes, I believe he will be, once I’m done.
I love the word “fuckwit” LOL very funny snippet!
It’s one of my favorite expletives. Thank you 🙂