One Night Stand Bride (In Name Only Book 2) by Kat Cantrell

Author:Kat Cantrell [Cantrell, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, In Name Only Series, Multicultural & Interracial, Paparazzi & Tabloid, Families Political Ambitions, Abstain or Chaste Until Vows, Temptation, Stop Rumors, Marriage of Convenience
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

Where was her underwear? It was so dark in here. Had she kicked them to the left? Panic drained Roz’s mind and she couldn’t think.

The doorknob rattled again. Whoever it was probably had no idea that the bride and groom were in the closet. But they were probably packing a cell phone with a camera. They always were.

Stuffing her fist against her mouth, Roz jumped away from the door and knelt to feel around for her panties, dress impeding her progress like a big white straitjacket for legs. Hendrix fumbled with his own clothes. His zipper shushed, sounding like an explosion in the small room. At least he’d gotten that much covered. Any photographs of this tryst would be of the dressed variety. But still not the commemorative moment they’d like captured digitally for eternity.

The door swung open, spilling light into the closet, and Roz had a very nasty flashback to a similar moment when she was twenty, with the obvious difference this time being that she was wearing a wedding dress and the man tucking in his shirt behind her had recently signed a marriage license.

Two white-coated waiters stared at her and Hendrix and she’d like to say her years of practice at being caught in less-than-stellar circumstances had prepared her for it, but it was never as easy as tossing her hair back and letting the chips fall where they may.

Besides, she refused to be embarrassed. Everything was covered. Married people were allowed to be in a locked closet without fear of judgment—or she wouldn’t have bothered to go through with all of this. The wait staff was interrupting her, not the other way around.

She shot to her feet and it was a testament to her feigned righteous indignation at being disturbed that she didn’t break an ankle as one of her stilettos hit the ground at an awkward angle.

“Um, sorry,” the one on the left said, and he might as well have hashtagged it #notsorry.

His face beamed his prurient delight, like something naughty was showing, and she had half a moment of pure horror over not actually locating her underwear. She tugged on her skirt to make sure it wasn’t caught on itself, but then Hendrix came up behind her, snaking an arm around her waist. Claiming her. They were a unit and he had her back.

She leaned into him, more grateful than she had a right to be.

“Can you give us a minute?” he said smoothly to the interrupters and actually waited for the one waiter’s nod before he shut the door in their face. Brilliant. Why hadn’t she thought of that?

Hendrix flipped on the overhead light, the white lace scrap on the floor easily identifiable at that point. But instead of letting her fetch her panties, he tipped her chin up and laid a kiss on her lips that had nothing to do with sex. Couldn’t. There were people outside who wanted inside this closet and they’d been busted.

“I wasn’t finished, either,” he murmured against her mouth by way of explanation.

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