Christmas Overnighted by Lara Norman

Author:Lara Norman [Norman, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07KY3D88K
Goodreads: 42976233
Publisher: LPN Publishing
Published: 2018-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Cora put Warren and his promise out of her head. She had too much to do to get the changes to the Graham account finished in time and still make it home at night. She hadn't asked him any of the things she’d wanted to, so she guessed that made her a coward. She knew he was running behind with the weather as bad as it was, and she wasn't willing to make it worse on him. He told her to expect him to show up at her door one day unannounced and bearing gifts, but she didn't think he was serious.

She finished at eight at night and let herself out of the office as usual. The temperatures had fallen to below zero and the snow hadn't let up all day. The only reason she was able to get out of the parking lot was due to the snow plows that came through on a fairly regular basis. As it was, she had to scrape all the snow off her windshield and back window. She started the engine as soon as she pushed off enough snow that it wouldn't all fall inside as soon as she opened the car door and got the defroster running to give her some help. She sat inside for a minute trying to warm her hands and legs while she cursed winter and snow and everything else that was impeding her happiness at that moment. She rested her head on the steering wheel and tried not to cry in frustration.

The snow was melted enough when she got around to picking her head up that she was able to turn on the wipers and get most of it off. Cora got out with her little windshield shovel and worked on the back window before rounding to the hood. It was that exact thing that kept her from enjoying the weather in the slightest. She was so cold she couldn't stop shivering by the time she crawled back in the car, and she still had to drive home. It made her sort of miserable. She parked on the street and dashed up the front walk, fumbling the key in the lock with numb fingers. When she finally made it inside she just collapsed on the couch with her coat still on. She was exhausted and didn’t even think she had the strength for dinner. She searched blindly until she found the blanket on the back of the couch and wrapped herself up in it.

It took at least five minutes for her to warm up and her coat to feel wet enough that she had to remove it. She kicked off her shoes and stood, pulling off her coat and then stripp- ing her work clothes from her body as she stumbled down the hall. Without thinking about it at all, she fell into her bed and pulled the comforter over her mostly naked body and fell into a dreamless sleep.

She was woken by pounding on her door. She cracked an eye open and was startled to see weak sunlight coming in around her curtains.

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