Addicted to Love by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [WILDE, LORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC027020
ISBN: 9780446544146
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

KELVIN STOOD IN his underwear eating cold fried chicken over the sink. He’d just gotten back from his Elks Lodge meeting and he couldn’t stop thinking about what he’d seen when he’d driven past the library.

Vehicles.

Lots of vehicles. So many cars and pickup trucks and SUVs that they couldn’t all fit in the parking lot. They were parked in the vacant lot next door and overfilled even that. They were parked along both sides of the street. Michael Henderson’s Porsche had been blocking the driveway, his fender sticking out into the road. And Brody Carlton’s Crown Vic had squatted up on the curb.

Among the conglomeration of vehicles, Kelvin had spotted Rex’s red Ford quarter-ton. What was up? If there had been a place to park, Kelvin would have gone in to see for himself.

He’d had dinner at the Elks Lodge, but curiosity dug into his belly like hunger pains and leftover Colonel Sanders made for a nice snack. But after he finished the chicken, he was still famished for information.

Kelvin tossed the thigh bone to Marianne, wiped the grease from his fingers on a paper towel, and picked the cordless phone from its base on the counter beside the microwave. Plopping down at the kitchen table, he propped his feet on the seat of the chair opposite him and punched in Rex’s number.

“Brownleigh,” he barked when Rex answered. “What the hell’s going on at the library?”

“Um . . . I don’t know what you mean,” Rex hedged.

“Don’t give me that crap. I saw your pickup in the parking lot.”

Rex cleared his throat. “It was a Romanceaholics Anonymous meeting.”

Kelvin was floored. How had the Henderson girl attracted a crowd that size? “That many people?”

“Standing room only. Over half the attendees came from another county.”

“No shit?”

“None, sir.”

“But how did people find out about it?”

“Viral video.”

“Viral video?” Kelvin repeated and pressed a palm to the back of his neck. “What’s that?”

“Rachael put a clip of her wedding video on the Web. Within two days it was the twentieth-most-downloaded video clip on YouTube.”

“YouTube?”

“Dude, seriously, you gotta get on your computer more.”

“I’m going to right now and you’re going to talk me through this thing.” Kelvin got up and headed for his study. Marianne plodded behind him.

“I’m in the middle of an IM session with a girl.”

“I don’t know what that is,” Kelvin said, turning on his computer. “If you’re trying to stop being romantic, should you be doing anything with a girl?”

“No.” Rex sounded sheepish.

“Then consider yourself saved. Hang up with her or do whatever you have to do to get out of an IM session and talk me through this. I’m getting on AOL right now.” He thought about bitching the boy out for being a traitor to his town and everything Valentine stood for by attending Rachael Henderson’s anti-romance twelve-step program, but for now, it suited his purpose to have Rex fixed on Kelvin’s needs.

Under Rex’s tutelage, he went to YouTube, found Rachael’s video, and watched it. The second it ended his stomach soured and his mouth went dry.

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