Christmas in a Small Town by Kristina Knight

Author:Kristina Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“YOU’RE TWENTY-SIX years old. Living in your grandparents’ spare room and dating a man who would probably rather you not have a curfew. So, here,” Bonita said, pressing the key into Camden’s hand. Camden immediately put the key on the kitchen table and stepped away from it. What she wouldn’t give to have waited in the upstairs bedroom until she heard Levi’s truck in the drive.

Of course, she hadn’t waited, because that made him picking her up for dinner seem too much like a real date, and she wasn’t dating Levi. She was using him to get rid of Grant, the same way he was using her to potentially turn a lease agreement with her grandfather into a lease-to-own agreement.

It had been an odd afternoon. After Levi drove off into the woods, Camden had returned to the farmhouse, where her grandparents were conspicuously absent.

Since she had arrived on their doorstep two weeks before, one or the other of them had hovered around her nearly every minute. It had been nice, but with them both off doing whatever it was they were doing, the house had seemed too big and too quiet, leaving her mind too much time to rethink this crazy scheme.

Pretend dating Levi. What had she been thinking? It was one thing to kiss him last night at the Slope. All eyes in the bar had been on them, but she could have eventually explained that away as too much drinking. They didn’t have to know that Camden never drank too much. She didn’t like to feel out of control, which was weird, because nothing about her life had felt totally in control since she’d walked away from the wedding, and she had embraced every minute of it.

Pretend dating Levi, though—that thought left a nervous feeling in her stomach, like maybe she was closer to out of control than she thought.

“We hardly ever lock the doors, so the key is mostly symbolic. Live your life,” Grandmom was saying.

“I don’t need a key. I don’t have anywhere to go that you two won’t already be.” Besides, it would be too weird. She’d lived in her mom and stepdad’s Mission Hills mansion for most of her adult life, but that was different than living with her grandparents. At the house in Kansas City, she had practically an entire wing to herself, but here she was sharing four bedrooms with her grandparents, with a rickety staircase and barely two thousand square feet separating the three of them. Which meant she had no plans to come and go. Even with a key, they would hear her coming and going, and this conversation was awkward enough with her grandparents just thinking she might have sex with Levi at some point in the future. She couldn’t imagine dealing with either of them over Grandmom’s scrambled eggs the morning after she actually slept with the man.

Besides which, Camden wasn’t ready to jump back into dating—pretend dating Levi aside. She needed to figure out

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