Mistletoe Bargain with the Billionaire: A Festive Fake Dating Novella by Cora North

Author:Cora North [North, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-10T23:00:00+00:00

15- Nick

The Partridge and Pear Inn will host Marley’s upcoming wedding and is also where we’ll be staying while in town. I can’t stop grinning like an idiot at our clerk as the keys to our suite are passed over.

There’s only one moment that throws us both. “Enjoy your stay in the Evergreen Suite, Mr. and Mrs. Frost!”

We both gape at the clerk for three full beats before we face each other and it’s so obvious we want to start laughing. Mr. and Mrs. Frost? Us?

“To think, she thought I was your wife!” Carol says in the elevator soon after, wiping away tears of laughter.

“Yeah,” I chuckle… and then I don’t feel like chuckling anymore. Is it so outrageous, the notion of Carol being my wife? Would the wild child ever settle for the computer nerd? She wouldn’t be the first to not want me as I am.

What am I even talking about? We’re here as old friends pretending to be a couple. I love my single life in San Fran and, once this week is done, I’ll return to it. There’s always girls at the clubs when Anthony and I want to party and plenty of beautiful women have graced my arm for something more like dating.

But, how many of them make you laugh like Carol does? Challenge you to step outside your comfort zone like Carol? How many girls have kissed you with all the purity and sweetness of a winter’s bride in the town square gazebo and been ready to get down and dirty with you an hour later outside the ladies’ room at Barney’s?

None of them.

Those girls and women are looking for what Billionaire Nicholas Frost can do for them. They don’t care to know the guy behind the bank account. They would never want to take a cross-country road trip with Mr. Jinglebell, be more thrilled by cornfield snow globes in Iowa than Prada handbags, delight in grilled cheese sandwiches from room service while watching Christmas movies or convince you to help four kids at the local pizza joint with plans to found their startup.

And, admittedly, I’m not sure I’d ever have talked to Grams quite like that in defense of any of them either.

Just Carol.

Always Carol.

“Nick?”

The elevator doors have opened and I’m standing here mentally gathering wool while this beautiful, lively woman waits for me to have her for dessert. Gotta get my head in the game.

“Come on, honey. Let’s go.” I carry our bags while she carries Mr. Jinglebell to our suite.

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