Hollis and Ivy by Elle Rush

Author:Elle Rush [Rush, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Rush
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Hollis

Hollis could be a gracious winner. When Ivy stepped around the corner two hours later, he became a grateful one, because any man who wasn’t grateful for such an amazing, gorgeous date didn’t deserve one.

She hadn’t said anything about him moving the copy of the fax she’d been sent. He’d snapped a picture while he was putting away Christmas decoration bins. Maggie was right. Nobody’s luck was that bad, and he had his suspicion as to where all her trouble was originating from.

“Where are we going?” she asked.

He couldn’t believe how difficult that decision had been. Italian was usually popular but included the risk of splashing tomato sauce on his clothes. Sushi generally required chopsticks, and he wasn’t proficient. He’d thought about asking Joel, but the Coffee Run had disappeared by the time he’d come up with that idea.

In the end, he’d decided to play it safe and wore a red shirt. “I hope you like Italian.”

“Love it.”

The breeze from earlier in the day had died, leaving a beautiful, still evening. They dodged tourists scampering back to their hotels with ski bags swinging from their shoulders.

Ivy twirled spaghetti like a pro. “I love pasta,” she said before she popped a forkful into her mouth. They had already demolished the bread basket and their respective salads. Decorating and flower arranging took more energy than Hollis realized.

“I never asked… Do you ski? You live here. I know Maggie skis. Joel and Marco snowboard. What about you?”

“I can ski. I generally don’t,” she told him. “I’ll snowboard on occasion. How about you? Are you going to hit the slopes while you’re here?”

“I’m pretty sure you got this when you asked me about the gondola, but I’m not a big fan of heights.”

“You’re not even going to try the bunny hill? It’s a towrope. Your feet never leave the ground.”

Hollis laughed. “Nope, not even that.”

“What do you do for fun?”

He got her giggling at his fantasy team baseball league stories, especially when he described Nick’s reaction the first time the victory monkey video had appeared on his computer. “Plus, I play real baseball in the summer—softball, really. It’s our slow time at work.”

They spent the rest of their meal and their walk back to the parking lot behind the store taking turns with funny stories. Hollis walked as slowly as he could to drag out their time together. He’d even talked Ivy into stopping for an ice cream cone. But at the end of the night, he had to say good-bye.

“Will I see you at the Coffee Run tomorrow?” she asked.

“You should. I’m here until I’m done at Love in Bloom. I can’t see me finishing up before the weekend.” If he did, he’d happily reimburse the company for a couple more nights at the hotel. They were expecting him back in the office on Monday. Between now and then, he could be where he wanted. He knew where that was. Maybe Ivy would get him on the bunny slopes after all.

He debated kissing her goodnight.

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