One Wild Night by Melissa Cutler

Author:Melissa Cutler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Chapter Twelve

Saturday. The anniversary of Skye’s miscarriage. She hadn’t been scheduled to work, but she found herself there anyway. Mindlessly cleaning up after the hotel guests and listening to the gripes and gossip of her employees was far better than moping around the house, stewing with her own dark thoughts about the miscarriage and the pregnancy scare the previous weekend. And thinking of Gentry, who was never far from her mind.

Actually, that was an understatement. She couldn’t stop thinking about him, with every song on the radio, every time she passed the villas at the resort, and every night alone in her bed. Yet she couldn’t decide why his hold on her had lingered. Was it because she missed the thrill or the man? Or maybe she simply missed the distraction, that brief moment in time that she could forget about her worries.

She really could have used him as her distraction tonight. Her body felt physically wounded by the emotional turbulence that this anniversary brought. Her stomach churned and her muscles ached, and no amount of chocolate or tears seemed to help. What did help a little was reading back through the occasional texts that Eddie Rivera had sent her throughout the week in advance of their date that evening.

Every text made her laugh, they were so dorky and endearing. He even sent her a weather report and sent her a survey about her favorite candy since they were going to the drive-in movies. After that, she got a knock-knock joke—an actual, bona fide knock-knock joke that she’d then shared with her niece and nephew, much to their delight.

But despite that, she wasn’t looking forward to their date like she should have been. Now that the anniversary was upon her, Eddie Rivera seemed a paltry distraction indeed. Her heart didn’t race when she thought of him. Her mind didn’t flood with electric, wicked thoughts, but rather, with … well, knock-knock jokes.

She took her lunch break later than usual, and arrived in the break room to find a handful of the housekeeping staff gathered around a cell phone watching a video, when they should have all been back to work already. Skye drew a deep breath and stemmed the urge to snap at them. Rather than break up their fun, it was time to make nice because she’d been short-tempered all week, which she hated because it made her feel like her mom.

Rather than look sheepish at the arrival of their boss, the ladies giggled when they saw her. Laura tried to hide the cell phone under the table.

I am not my mother … I am not my mother … “What’s going on?” Skye asked as casually and carefree as possible.

“Is it true about you and Gentry Wells?” Laura asked.

Skye hadn’t said word one to anyone at work about her weekend with Gentry, because she’d broken a lot of rules that night, and anyway, it wasn’t professional for a boss to go blabbing about her hedonistic weekend, with a hotel guest or not.

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