Buns (The Hudson Valley Series Book 3) by Alice Clayton

Author:Alice Clayton [Clayton, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2017-05-22T18:30:00+00:00

That night I headed down to the lobby a few minutes before everyone was due to arrive. My stomach all flip-floppy, a bundle of nerves. I wasn’t sure why, we’d all had dinner together at the diner and I hadn’t been nervous.

That was a happy accident. You invited them here this time. To spend time with you . . . and Archie.

Not officially.

Keep telling yourself that.

It was true. My worlds were always kept apart, such as they were. My professional world was for me and me alone. Alone being the key word. I spent time with my friends when I could, of course, but I led a fairly isolated life. My work took me wherever it took me, I never said no to a job far away. It wasn’t that I didn’t like spending time with my friends, I loved my girls. But suddenly my work life and life life were mixing, through my own invitation, and it just felt . . . strange. Flip-floppy was honestly the best way to describe it.

“Think you’ll be warm enough?” I heard behind me, and I turned to see Archie standing there, admiring my faux-fur hat. “You look like you’ll be invading Poland in that thing.”

“Laugh all you want, but you lose most of your body heat through your head, and it’s cold tonight.”

“There’ll be a campfire.”

“Won’t that make it hard to see the stars?”

He leaned down closer to my ear, inside my faux fur. “The campfire is for after.”

“After?”

“After.” He nodded, and I could feel his breath on my neck. I shivered. He noticed. “Guess it’s a good thing you’ve got that hat on after all.”

I pulled away, laughing, and gave him a playful swat on the chest just as the front door burst open.

“We heard there were stars up here,” Natalie said, pulling Oscar along. “Let’s see ’em.”

“Hold your horses there, woman, we gotta get up to the top first. How in the world are you planning on hiking in those?” I asked, pointing at her high-heeled boots.

“You said wear boots. I wore boots.” She stuck up her foot, clad in three-inch heels. “Besides, if I get tired I’ll jump on his back.”

“She’ll get tired,” Oscar replied. “She thinks I’m her pack mule.”

“Jackass, babe, I called you jackass.”

“Quit calling my friend a jackass,” Leo scoffed, popping his head up over Oscar’s shoulders where he was standing with Roxie.

“Everyone’s a jackass, just get in here,” I instructed, waving them all in, including Chad and Logan, who were bringing up the rear. “Hey guys, glad you could make it.”

“Are you kidding, I’ve been dying to get up here and see this place, it’s incredible!” Logan said, looking everywhere all at once. “Show me everything, I want to see everything. Right now.”

“Okay, well, we don’t have too much time before we need to meet the astronomer, we should probably—”

“Oh, I think we’ve got some time,” Archie said, patting me on the shoulder. Something eagle-eyed Natalie and Roxie noticed immediately. “And Clara here can give the tour.

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