Holiday Spice by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2017-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Ben was ready to lose his mind. It was late Monday morning, and he was lying in bed while Darcy returned phone calls—some to her family, some about jobs. The job calls he could completely understand, but the family ones? How much more could these people want to be together? And on top of that, in two weeks, they were going to do it all again for Christmas. Didn’t they ever take a break?

The dinner Friday night had gone on until almost midnight. Then Saturday, Aidan and Zoe had come over to hang out. And yesterday, Riley and Savannah stopped by before heading to the airport.

So much for a weekend for just the two of them. Next time they did this, it was going to be in Washington.

His flight home wasn’t until the early evening, but he had hoped they would have some time alone—just the two of them, no family members—before he had to leave. Hopefully, her calls wouldn’t take too long. Glancing over at the bedside clock, he frowned. She had already been out there for almost an hour.

Knowing that staying in bed wasn’t helping anything, he got up and showered. When he came out of the bathroom—in just a towel in hopes of enticing her off the phone—he was mortified to find Aubrey and Brooke sitting in the kitchen.

“Holy shit!” he cried out and quickly went into the bedroom and shut the door.

Didn’t this family ever stay in their own homes?

Darcy came in the room a minute later. “Oh my God, I’m so sorry! I didn’t even think when they showed up. I thought you’d come out dressed!”

“Really?” he hissed. “In all the times we’ve stayed here, when have either of us come out of the bathroom fully dressed?”

At least she had the decency to look embarrassed. “Okay, fine. We never have, and that should have registered with me. I’m sorry.” She came over and tried to hug him, but he was too wound up. “C’mon, Ben. It’s not like they’ve never seen a man in a towel before.”

That was so not the thing to say.

Ben quickly pulled on his jeans, grabbed a T-shirt out of his bag, and turned to glare at her. “All damn weekend, we had everyone around us. Is it too much to ask that on our last few hours together it be just us? What was so important that your family had to be here?” He did his best to keep his voice down, but it was a challenge.

“They were helping me prep for my last call,” she said with a hint of defiance. “They waited until it was almost lunchtime to come over to give us some privacy. They had no idea you were in the shower.”

“You could have told them,” he countered. “Or better yet, you could have knocked on the damn door and said ‘Hey, Ben. We have company.’ Either of those would have worked.”

She huffed. “I’ve apologized, Ben. What more do you possibly want?”

“I want some time alone with you, dammit! I leave here in a little more than four hours.

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