A Is for Apple by Kate Johnson

Author:Kate Johnson [Johnson, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Mystery, Chick Lit
ISBN: 9781599986586
Google: _b-IoK4NJpcC
Amazon: 1599986582
Publisher: Samhain
Published: 2007-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

It was the hair that did it.

I tried to slip into the back of the art class as quietly as I could, but everyone turned and looked at me, and I knew they could tell. I was wearing yesterday’s clothes, but only Marc and Lucy would be able to tell that. I was wearing minimal makeup—applied in the car—but so were a few of the other girls.

It was my hair—tousled, unbrushed, wiggly from being left in plaits all night, and almost still bearing the imprints of Luke’s fingers—and the scent of his deodorant that did it.

I’d have brushed my hair, but all I had was the booby bag which contained my purse, phones and a lipgloss. Besides, those pigtails had done a damn good job on it last night, not to mention Luke’s added tousling. No three-second brushing would have made it look tame.

It was pretty clear that I’d spent the night at Luke’s place, and pretty clear we hadn’t been playing Scrabble.

Lucy was giggling. Marc looked at me with his cool blue eyes, and I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

“Boy, he’s going to be mad at you,” Lucy whispered, and I looked around for the new teacher as I slunk to an empty bench. I was fifteen minutes late for the lesson and I had no artwork at all. It was all in the back of Ted, who was still sitting in my car park at home. I didn’t even have a pencil.

This morning I’d woken in Luke’s soft bed, tangled up with him in a hot, gorgeous mess. I stretched out, feeling pretty damn good, and wondered what I had to do today.

And then I remembered.

And then I looked at the clock, and screamed.

Luke’s eyes slammed open and he reached for the gun by his bead.

“What?”

“I was supposed to be at school ten minutes ago!” I leapt out of bed, tripping over Luke’s leg and landing painfully on my knee. “Ow! Bollocks, shit…”

He dropped the gun on his beside table and looked at me lazily.

“Blow it off,” he said.

“Are you nuts? Luke, this is the first time I’ve been given something like surveillance all by myself. I am not going to screw it up. Now where the hell is my underwear?”

I sat there and tried to look composed. This is a look I’ve been practising my entire life, and I still haven’t managed to pull it off. God knows how I got my Drama A level.

“What’s he like?” I asked Lucy now in an undertone. She, like everyone else, had her entire portfolio out on the desk and I remembered my induction letter telling me to bring everything to the first lesson for assessment. Which was why I had put it in my car. But Luke had dropped me off this morning and I’d hardly had time to put my knickers on. My feet were killing me because they hadn’t been parcelled up properly, and my pretty shoes were grating on the raw patches.

“The new guy?” She shrugged.

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