In Bed with the Bachelor (Bachelor Auction Book 5) by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane [Crane, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781942240464
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2015-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

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What little daylight there was disappeared entirely around midafternoon, and Jesse’s cabin fever set in with a vengeance.

It had been a long, strange day. No surprise, after where they’d ended up in the conversation he should have known better than to have in the first place. Their breakfast had wrapped up in a significantly more subdued mood than it had begun. Michaela had tried to pay the check, Jesse had employed a little bit of sleight of hand to prevent it and pay it himself for reasons he didn’t care to examine, and there had been far too much time over the last of their coffee to sit there and simmer in the mess he’d made with all those freaking questions to begin with.

And of course, Michaela hadn’t answered the most important question. It hung between them, expanding and taking on weight and mass with every second she didn’t address it.

Which was answer in itself. Jesse imagined they both knew that.

Just as he knew he had no answer for why he’d put her on the spot. Or no answer he liked, anyway.

They’d made their way back across the snowy road not long after that, then settled into their snow day as new flakes began to swirl down outside. They’d each taken calls, pulled out their laptops, acted as if they happened to be sharing a work cubicle there in their little room. Michaela had made up the bed, as if that might divert attention away from the fact it was a bed. Jesse made surprisingly decent coffee in the doll-sized coffeemaker, which sat next to the TV. Sometimes, when they were both on the phone with their offices, one of them would step into the bathroom or out the front door for a little shred of privacy. They didn’t talk to each other much.

You talked more than enough this morning, he’d reminded himself. And since when do you want to talk, anyway?

But that was another question he didn’t have any intention of answering.

Jesse couldn’t have said he got a lot done, especially when he’d expected he’d be back in Seattle and working on his problem job site today, but it was certainly a shift to spend some time with a woman who didn’t give him shit for always being on his phone when he was away from the office.

You are messed up, he told himself then, glaring out at the cold, snowy parking lot as he ended another call to one of his project managers. Because the thought was insane and he knew it. He wasn’t in any kind of relationship with Michaela. They were snowbound together, nothing more, and he thought maybe he should hold off on going back inside the motel room until he got that a little straighter in his head.

The last woman he’d spent any time with outside of a bed and therefore gotten to know at all was Angelique. Treacherous, two-faced, purposefully useless Angelique, who would have gone out of her mind in a situation like this.

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