Million Dollar Marriage by Evans Katy

Author:Evans, Katy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542007252
Published: 2019-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Luke

I was a little under the weather there. I’m better now, and we’re in it to win it. How we got through? That was all Penny.

—Luke’s Confessional, Day 10

An air horn jolts me awake. I’m in pitch blackness, and it takes the smell of the snow and the feel of Penny’s body against mine to remind me where the hell I am. She stirs, and I feel her eyelashes fluttering against my neck. Her skin is warm and dewy and smells sweet, like something I want to taste.

I find her glasses and help her put them on. “You don’t feel as hot.” Her voice is hopeful.

I tense my muscles, and they don’t ache like last night. “I don’t feel so shitty anymore.”

“You don’t?” Her arms tighten around me. Her nose bumps against my Adam’s apple. Her breath is warm on my skin. Her lips move with the words “I’m so glad,” feeling like a kiss.

I dip my head down to seek her lips out, and as I do, the air horn blares again.

Time to start the next leg of the race.

I help her push up and out of the small opening, hardly able to believe that this is what we made last night. I was half-delirious. When I slide out into the bracing Alaska cold, stand upright, and take a few breaths, I’m sure of it.

I’m ready to kick ass.

“What are you smiling about, pussy boy?” a voice calls from the igloo across from us. Fucking Ace. “You’re dead last. This is gonna be your last challenge.”

Next to me, Penny scowls, punching her open hand like a regular firecracker. “We’ll just see about that, you . . . pierced-nosed . . . gross . . .” She trails off, lost.

I tug on her jacket, smiling at her. She ain’t much of an expert when it comes to trash talk, but we need that spirit if we’re ever going to come out on top of the rest of the teams.

“Hey, girl?”

She looks up at me.

“When you don’t got anything good to say . . .” I point a middle finger at Ace. “This speaks volumes.”

She tries it, but by then Ace isn’t paying attention. Ace and Marta are still solidly on top, but Brad and Natalie have been giving them a run for their money, and Ivy and Cody and Tony and Charity have been working really well together too. It’s anyone’s game right now.

The staff members give us cereal bars and juice, and then we’re called to assemble in front of a large log building. Will Wang is there. He says, “Hope you guys had restful sleep last night!”

He means it as a joke, because everyone’s walking around looking like the living dead. But you know what? I did. I slept damn well.

“Before the next challenge, we hope that you’re ready for Marriage Test Number Three.”

Everyone groans. Us included, because hell. We haven’t done so well on these tests. We’ve yet to get a question right about each other. Penny’s eyes are wide because these are probably the first tests in her life she’s ever failed.

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