Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [SHALVIS, JILL]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2017-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

#HairyGoats

For several nights, Colbie slept better than she had in . . . well, forever actually. And not just because in the deep, late, quiet hours between midnight and daybreak, Spence always came to her after he was done working, sliding into her bed, pulling her into his strong, warm arms.

That’s when all her problems faded away, replaced by an erotic, sensual hunger and desire for him such as she’d never known.

She always woke up alone, with a smile on her face. She had no idea why he never stayed. Maybe actually sleeping with her was one step too intimate for him. Maybe she snored.

Maybe it was just sex.

She told herself she didn’t care, that he was still the best, most exciting thing that’d ever happened to her.

One morning almost two weeks into her stay, she sat all bundled up on one of the benches in front of the fountain and wrote.

And wrote.

She was painfully aware that the book she was writing wasn’t the next book in her Storm Fever series.

It was something entirely different. But she loved it.

She also knew that Jackson would have a fit. On top of wanting her out there in public supporting the movie in a very visible way, he also wanted her to do what her publisher wished and expand her series.

Problem was, she didn’t want any of that.

She’d closed up the series in her head and her brain just wouldn’t go there. So she let her writing take her where it wanted to go, and she was completely lost in the world when someone plopped down beside her.

“Longest day ever,” Kylie said and slumped on the bench, tilting her head against the wrought-iron to stare up at the sky. “Today alone I messed up a table I’d been working on for four months, said no to a date with a hot customer, and ate my boss’s stash of candy bars. I think I’m going to hell.”

“Why did you say no to the hot customer?”

“Because he’s married.”

“Then you’re not going to hell,” Colbie said.

“But the candy bars —”

“Hey, you did your boss a favor, saved him from getting fat.”

“The top button on my jeans won’t close.” Kylie groaned and closed her eyes. “But thanks. You’re sweet. Got anything for me on the table I messed up?”

“Nothing other than it sucks big-time.”

“Yeah.” Kylie opened her eyes and sat up. “All this crappiness has got me starving. I need sustenance.”

“Did I hear someone mention food?” a twenty-something woman in a white lab coat asked, stopping at their bench.

“This is Haley,” Kylie told Colbie. “She’s an optometrist on the second floor. She’s the one responsible for Spence’s hot geeky glasses, and also for being the voice of calm reason in our group.”

“We’re going for food,” she told Haley. “Coming?”

“Can’t. I’ve got patients waiting. Have some wings for me, would ya?”

“Will do.” Kylie stood and pulled Colbie off the bench, tugging her toward the pub. “Chicken wings. Life won’t be complete until I inhale a platter of Finn’s chicken wings.

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