Cold War 2 - Holding The Edge by Andrews Keira

Author:Andrews Keira [Keira, Andrews]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Orchids—my favorite.” Bailey touched a delicate purple petal and cradled the bouquet in her arm. “But of course you knew that. Thanks, Misha.” She went up on tiptoes and pressed a kiss to his cheek. She waved him into her hotel room and shut the door behind him. “Let me just put these in water.”

“I hope you will forgive my thoughtlessness.” He played with the zipper pull on his hoodie. It would affect his relationship with Dev if Bailey was angry with him, but more than that, Misha found himself genuinely contrite. He liked Bailey and did not want to upset her.

As she squeezed the flowers into a glass of water in the bathroom, Bailey called back, “Apology accepted.” She plucked her purse from the bed. “We all have our moments. Is everything cool with you and Dev?”

A flicker of excitement went through him. “Yes.”

Her eyebrow lifted sky high. “Oh, I see. You guys made up but good, huh? You’re practically glowing.”

He didn’t bother denying it and only smiled slyly.

“I love it.” She grinned. “Okay, we’d better hit the road.”

Misha opened the door as Bailey mumbled something about lip gloss and hustled back to the bathroom. He turned, blinking at the slight blonde in the doorway with her fist raised. “Caroline.”

She blinked back. “Mikhail! I’m sorry, I must have the wrong room.” Her eyes widened as she peered around him.

Bailey was there at his shoulder. “Sweet! Hey. I was just coming to meet you in the lobby.”

“Sorry. I wanted to borrow your team jacket because stupid Grant spilled tomato juice all over mine at breakfast this morning. He and I have a photo thing this morning with this reporter from Buffalo.” She glanced at Misha. “That’s where Grant’s from.

Buffalo. It’s in New York. State, I mean. Obviously. But you probably need yours, Bailey, so I can just get it dry cleaned or we won’t wear our jackets in the pictures, which would be fine. Totally fine.”

Still a teenager, Caroline rambled the way she always did in Misha’s presence. He wasn’t sure if it was him or just her normal state of being—flustered and uncertain.

“It’s no problem. Let me just grab it,” Bailey said.

Misha and Caroline smiled awkwardly at each other. Misha cleared his throat. “I was just here to…” His mind was frustratingly blank.

“It’s cool! None of my business. I shouldn’t have just shown up unannounced.”

Bailey reappeared and thrust the blue jacket with red-and-white adornments at Caroline. “Here you go, Sweet. Mikhail and I were just going to meet Dev and Kisa.

We’ve got another joint interview thing later, so we’re going over our answers.”

“Oh, right. Of course.” Caroline nodded rapidly. “Okay, bye!” She scurried away and disappeared around the corner toward the elevators.

Bailey sighed. “Terrific.”

“She thinks that we are…” He motioned between them.

“Yep.”

“She will speak to others?”

With a snort, Bailey closed her door. “This is figure skating. Gossip is like, our fifth and most important food group. Her thumbs are undoubtedly tapping out tales of our scandalous hook-up as we speak.

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