Accidental Roommates by CHARLOTTE MACLAY

Author:CHARLOTTE MACLAY [Charlotte Maclay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459274372
Publisher: Harlequin

THEY TOOK A CAB to the stadium and arrived during the top of the second inning. The score was already three to zero for the visiting team, but everyone said the Cubs were just getting warmed up.

Holt had indeed been right about a major-league game being fun, Hannah decided. The fans were raucous, jeering their own team as much as the opposition. Hannah learned to do the wave with the crowd, and managed to get her hands on a beach ball, sending it sailing on across the stands, recreational activities that appeared designed to keep baseball fans occupied during deadly-dull innings when nothing much else was happening.

The hot dogs were cold, the beer mostly warm, the peanuts salty.

She loved it because she loved being with Holt. His sexy smile flashed in her direction more than once; his arm looped around her shoulders, protecting her from rowdy fans, who were bent on shoving everyone else out of the bleachers. Unintentionally, she assumed, due to their high good spirits.

When the Cubs managed to lose by a single run after ten innings, and Holt escorted her back to the hotel on the crowded El, Hannah cherished the feel of being mashed against his big, brawny body. His shirt smelled of the outdoors, mustard and clean, masculine sweat.

At the hotel, they rode up the elevator in silence, their fingers entwined, Hannah just a little breathless with the quick change of elevation. Or maybe because of Holt’s closeness.

He used his key card and shoved open the door.

“Look, Hannah, there’s something I need to do. Go ahead and get ready for bed. I’ll be back, ah, later.”

She could hardly argue with the man. If he wanted to be somewhere else now, that was his business. The fact that her whole body was thrumming with the need for a greater intimacy was not his problem.

“Sure,” she said bravely. “Just be quiet when you come in. I’m beat.”

He leaned forward as though he might want to kiss her good-night. But then he turned away and walked down the hall toward the elevators, leaving Hannah feeling as though an icy Minnesota blizzard had just whipped down the corridor.

In spite of her disappointment, she dressed for bed and crawled between the sheets, leaving the bathroom light on and the door open a crack so he wouldn’t stumble in the dark. Eventually she drifted off to sleep. Sometime in the early hours, she rolled over. The clock said four. Holt had still not returned to their room.

She mashed her eyes closed again and tried not to acknowledge the trickle of tears that were edging down her cheeks.

When she woke in the morning—this time without the aid of an alarm clock or clamoring phone— Holt’s side of the bed remained empty.

Anxiety snatched her breath away. Maybe Holt had gone for a walk after he’d left her and had been mugged on the mean streets of the city. Even now he might be lying in some dirty alleyway, bleeding, alone and unnoticed. And she hadn’t reported him missing when he hadn’t returned to the room as he said he would.

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