Mistletoe Between Friends by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Cam quietly closed the door to their room, leaned against it, and watched as Lily walked around, settling in. She took off her earrings and placed them on the dresser, then opened a drawer and pulled out what he guessed were her pajamas. With a sleepy smile, Lily went into the bathroom and closed the door, and Cam finally let himself breathe.

“This is ridiculous,” he muttered as he did his best to settle in. Kicking off his shoes and putting them near his side of the bed, Cam sat and wondered what he was supposed to do. In the grand scheme of things, this situation was nothing new. They had shared a bed in New York for four nights, so he knew they could do it.

They’d even managed to sleep that first night.

The problem with the current situation was that Cam didn’t want to sleep. He and Lily were supposed to be laying the groundwork for their breakup, and making love was not going to be help make them believable. “This is why I hang out in a lab all day,” he said quietly, rising to get his own pajamas from the dresser. “I should have just made the move overseas, and none of this would be happening.”

“Are you back to moving overseas?” Lily asked around a big yawn as she stepped out of the bathroom. As in New York, she had on a pair of red flannel boxers—this time with snowflakes on them—and a green cami.

“Very festive,” he said, motioning to her attire.

“Thanks. It came with a Santa hat, but that just seemed like overkill.” Lily trudged over to her side of the bed and began the task of moving the mountain of decorative pillows off it and pulling the blankets back so she could crawl in.

Cam took that as his cue to take his turn getting ready for bed. With any luck, Lily would be asleep by the time he came out, and all of his worries would have been for nothing. He worked slowly and went through every nighttime hygiene chore he had ever been taught. Confident he had wasted enough time, he shut off the light and quietly opened the door to the bedroom.

And there sat Lily with her tablet, playing solitaire.

“Seriously,” he said with a chuckle as he walked toward the bed, “you have a problem.”

Lily looked up from the screen and smiled at his green flannel pajama pants and white T-shirt. “Are you sure you don’t want to add a hat and gloves to that getup?” she teased.

“We’re in the mountains, Lil,” he said blandly as he climbed into the bed. “We have no idea how well the heat works in this house.”

She shot him a look of utter disbelief. “Really? That’s what you’re going with? Poor heating in the luxury house?” With a tsking sound, she went back to her electronic card game. After a moment, she spoke. “I’m a little disappointed in you, Cameron.”

“Me? Why?”

Lowering her tablet to her lap, Lily turned her head to look at him.

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