Keepers by Meg Collett

Author:Meg Collett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alcoholism, womens fiction, beaches, contemporary romance, reality show, canaan island
Publisher: Meg Collett

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“Stevie?”

Something blissfully cool swept down her face. She cracked her eyelids open a bit and found Cade’s face hovering a few inches from hers. The corner of his mouth pulled up when he saw her waking.

“Hey,” he said, wiping the damp rag over her forehead again. “How are you feeling?”

She groaned because she felt like her face had split open. “What happened?”

Cade cringed, the rag going to a pool of warmth beneath her nose. He swiped at it and the cloth came away red. Glancing up, he barked at someone, “Where the hell is Medical?”

Someone answered him, but Stevie didn’t listen. She sat up on her elbows, and the floor tilted beneath her.

Before she could sag back onto the floor, Cade wrapped his arm around her back, supporting her weight. She was cocooned against his chest, his other hand cradling her face.

“Am I ugly?”

“The blood matches your hair,” Arie said, his head suddenly popping in over Cade’s shoulder. He smirked down at her. “Your fight gave all the producers drama-boners. It’s all anyone can talk about.”

Stevie tried to roll her eyes at him, but she only made herself dizzy.

“Can you see what’s taking Medical so long?” Cade asked him.

Arie nodded and hurried off, his boots slapping across the store’s linoleum floor.

“Do you remember what you said right before you passed out?”

“No?” She racked her brain to remember, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t recall saying anything before things went black. Whatever she’d said must have been important if he was asking her about it before Medical came over. “Why?” she wheezed through her nose. “Was it bad? Did I say something on camera? Did anyone hear me?”

If she didn’t know better, she would have thought Cade was trying to keep his face neutral. He’d never looked so aloof around her. “You’re certain? And no, no one else heard.”

She struggled for a scrap of memory, but nothing surfaced. “All I remember is you catching me and then nothing.”

At her words, he almost looked . . . disappointed, but that couldn’t be right if she’d said something awful, and she assumed she had. She always did.

Then why wasn’t he relieved?

Medical came over and attended to her bloody face. Once she was bandaged up, the crew migrated back over to the neighborhood to film on the judging soundstage with all the teams. She stood off by herself, holding a towel beneath her nose to stop the spontaneous blood that liked to gush out.

“There’s my girl,” Shepherd said, catching her by surprise as he came up behind her.

She had to bite back a yelp. Around them, the teams and crew were busy getting into place. “You did wonderfully today.”

“Um, thanks?” Stevie wanted to shoulder past him and get onto the stage before anyone noticed her standing down here with him, but he stayed in her way, oozing a smile down at her that made her hackles rise. She wished she’d stayed unconscious, even if it meant she would have missed out on Cade being all hunky and chivalrous.

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