One Steamed Night by Lara Nance

Author:Lara Nance [Nance, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A 1Night Stand Story
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Published: 2014-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Mina juggled a bag of groceries, her purse, and a ring of keys as she attempted to unlock her apartment door. Finally succeeding, she pushed through and went in. She unloaded the groceries on the kitchen counter and tossed her purse on the sofa.

It had been two weeks since her fantasy one-night stand and she couldn’t stop thinking about Ross. After the fantastic evening in his cabin, she’d awakened in the strange hotel room, back in her black silk pajamas. Surely he was a real person. He had to exist. Despite her attempts to contact him through Madame Eve though, his identity remained a secret.

She uncorked a bottle of merlot and poured a glass, kicked off her pumps, then settled in a plush chair beside the couch with a heavy sigh.

Madame Eve had to be a magician to make her fantasy come true. Mina remained intrigued with her match. Had Ross wanted a similar experience that convinced Madame Eve to hook them up in that crazy, steampunk setting? Did he still think about her, or had it simply been a pleasurable evening of role playing?

With a sigh, she returned to the kitchen to refill her glass. Hearing a knock on her door, she headed for the foyer and peered through the peephole. Nothing. Strange. Who had it been? She almost turned away, but some strange impulse urged her to open the door anyway.

The hall outside sat empty, the elevator silent. Then her gaze fell to a white envelope on the carpet. The scrolled script on the front sent her heart racing. That handwriting had been on all the correspondence from Madame Eve. When she bent to retrieve the note, a lump rose in her throat.

Closing the door, she returned to her seat in the living room and opened the envelope. Unlike the last time, it didn’t contain a message: only two tickets for Steamcon, a steampunk event. Taking place in Seattle in two weeks.

At first, she dismissed using them. Why would she traipse across the country for a convention of people who liked to dress up in Victorian garb and pretend they were in another era? Then again, maybe those folks were kindred spirits. People who wanted to live in a different century and face adventures. Madame Eve could be directing her to seek her element among the creative members of that community.

She pulled up the website for the convention on her laptop. Incredible. Seemed over three thousand people attended the event. Wow. A rush of excitement hit her brain. That may be what she’d been missing—a group of likeminded people. She’d never find what she wanted visiting bars in New York.

Seattle. She looked for a ticket. Bam. Booked. All set.

Steamcon, look out.

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