A Christmas Spark: An Enemies to Lover's Christmas Romance (A Pride and Pranks Romance) by Cindy Steel

Author:Cindy Steel [Steel, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Blast it.

That dang wink completely ruined the productive afternoon I had planned. Instead of typing furiously for my book, I found myself re-playing the wink and the mustard comment a thousand times. Each time the daydreams got a bit more farfetched. The last ended with a kiss, and that’s when I jumped up from the couch to do a few laps around the cramped cabin and grab a glass of water. Mercy. It couldn’t have been that long since a man had shown me attention. It was literally the tiniest amount of attention ever, and I was playing it in my mind like I had just been given the crown jewels.

I brought my thoughts around to my last boyfriend, Conner. It had ended about three months ago—mostly on the basis of my roommate Connie, who told us we had the chemistry and excitement of a rock. Conner, who was a Geology professor at our local community college, had been flattered. I broke up with him the very next day. Honestly, other than my grocery budget lasting longer, and the fact that my evenings were spent watching TV by myself, I hadn’t noticed much difference in my life without him.

It occurred to me that none of the breakups in my life had been devastating. At least not for me. Certainly no man I went out with had ever thought to wink at me. I didn’t even know winking was still a thing. Was it?

Had every guy I dated been so vanilla? This idea was hitting me hard enough that I had to sit down. Conner, Trevor, Greg… all of them were nice, quiet, smart, safe—boring. Mostly great qualities, probably why I was drawn to them. All of them were very active in their careers—each in some sort of scientific type profession that I could never speak to them about, because I understood nothing they would tell me. We would have nice evenings out every once in a while, chuckle over our days together, and probably would have led a pleasant existence if something had ever worked out.

But what I couldn’t understand was why I had dated virtually the same type of man since high school. I had always been confused and would roll my eyes at the over-dramatic way roommates and friends would break up, or get broken up with. So much angst, crying, and emotional drama. I had no experience with that. Every breakup of mine seemed more like parting ways from a business deal than having any sort of emotional effect.

Had I been attracted to any of them? Yes. No? Maybe? They were each handsome enough in their own right. I was never embarrassed to be seen with them. Each of them adequate, if a bit reserved in the social department, but I never felt their presence in a room. I knew they were there, but I never felt them there.

The last few days living with Chase had been super charged with him. I knew where he was at all times.

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