One Little Favor: A Christmas Novella (Frozen Hearts Series) by Julia Connors

Author:Julia Connors [Connors, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

TOM

I’m pretty sure that this is either the best decision I’ve ever made in my life, or I’m about to get arrested for kidnapping.

I find Avery’s door at the end of the hallway on the sixth floor, and knock twice before she cracks the door open. Her wet hair is in a bun on top of her head, and her wet body is wrapped in a towel. “When you said you were coming over this morning, I didn’t think you meant in mere minutes. Aren’t you supposed to be in the office taking a deposition right now?”

“I got Jones to do it for me,” I tell her. “We have much more important things to take care of today.”

“Like your furniture delivery?”

“Nope, your friend Taryn is going to handle that for us.”

She pulls the door open farther. “Taryn’s in Poughkeepsie with her family for Christmas.”

“Correction, she was in Poughkeepsie with her family. Now she’s headed to Manhattan for the day.”

Avery eyes me skeptically. “And why would she do that?”

“If I gave you all the details of my master plan, it would ruin the surprise.”

“What surprise?” she asks, holding the door open far enough that I take it as an invitation to come in.

“The one I’ve planned for you.”

She steps back to give me room to close the door behind me, and the minute that door is shut, she presses up on her toes and skims her lips along mine.

I step back against the door and pull her with me, and she presses her entire body against the front of mine. Then she reaches up and cups my face in her hands. “Please tell me we have the time to finally get naked together.”

I tilt my head back against the door and groan in frustration.

“Don’t even say,” she says, an edge to her voice, “that you have me pressed up against you, naked under this towel, and you’re going to put this off. Again.”

“Fuck, I’m sorry,” I sigh. “But I need you to dry your hair and get dressed, and pack for a few days, and be ready to leave here in”—I glance down at my watch—“fifty-five minutes.”

“Fifty-five minutes? To get ready and pack? That’s impossible. What am I even packing for?”

“Warm weather. It’s freezing here, and neither of us have any good reason to stay in New York for Christmas. So we’re going somewhere tropical instead.”

Her eyes widen, and her lips part, but no words come out. “Your surprise is a vacation?”

“Yes. Can you get ready now?”

She leans up on her toes again and plants a kiss on my cheek. “Well, aren’t you pleasantly unexpected, Tom Shepherd?”

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