One Night in Santiago by Audra North

Author:Audra North
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled Publishing, Flaunt, romance, short story, contemporary romance, one night stand, Audra North
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

This was so embarrassing.

After several minutes of weeping on Komarov’s T-shirt, Lily finally composed herself with several long, deep breaths and tried to pull away from his warm, solid chest. But his arms trapped her tightly, not letting her leave him when all she wanted to do was run into the bedroom and hide.

She had just lost it in front of him. She felt like the biggest loser in history.

He reached up and took the towel off her head. It had already gotten all skewed when she had pushed her nose into his collar, and her hair must look like a mess, but he didn’t seem to notice. He just kept making soft, shushing sounds, and after a while, she relaxed into his embrace.

Which felt really, really good. So good to be pressed against almost his entire length, front to front, breasts to chest, her legs between his as he leaned against the back of the chair and supported her weight against his body.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered into his shirt. “I’m so embarrassed. You must think I’m the worst sister in the world.”

He laughed softly, and she felt the vibration through his chest. “Not particularly, no. Sounds like you’ve been a pretty great one, actually. Greg, Andrew, and Meredith—are they your other siblings?”

Lily nodded against his chest, her damp hair rasping against the fabric of his T-shirt. “Greg and Andrew are my older brothers, and Meredith is Andrew’s fiancée. Julie is almost nine years younger than I am and our dad died when she was only thirteen. For many years after his death, Mom lost a lot of her spark, and I think that was hard on Julie, even though Mom tried really hard to stay positive for Julie’s sake. The rest of us were out of the house by then, and I always felt like Julie got the short end of the stick, spending her teen years without a dad, a grieving mom, and siblings who all lived far away…”

She trailed off. “I’m sorry. I’m rambling. I swear, I’m not usually such a basket case. It’s been a rough week.”

He tsked at her. “Even if you wept like a baby on a regular basis, it sounds like you have good reason to. And…not that I was listening”—she gave a weak laugh against his shirt—“but it sounded like you really are being too hard on yourself. It seems to me that you tried very hard to make sure she never felt like she had missed out.”

Lily sighed and shrugged. “I tried to go back home as often as possible. I pushed for consulting gigs in North Carolina—where I’m from—and guilted Greg and Andrew into coming for every holiday. Even Flag Day, for goodness’ sake.”

He laughed again, this time a short, barking laugh that made her smile. “It doesn’t sound like ‘worst sister’ behavior to me. In fact, if you were only in your early twenties, it was probably something that few of your contemporaries would have done for a teenaged sister.

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