Operation One Night Stand by Christine Hughes

Author:Christine Hughes [Hughes, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The next morning I was thanking the weekend gods it was Saturday as I sat at the kitchen counter reading Michael’s manuscript, drinking a cup of coffee. I had just finished writing a page full of notes on my computer when Sarah walked through the front door.

“Holy hell! You look like shit!” I rushed over to help her with her coat. I pulled my face away. “Jesus, you stink!”

“I honestly don’t think I’m sober yet. I haven’t had a night like that in years. I might be too old to drink like that.” She backed up against the door and leaned her head back.

Kicking off her shoes, she toed on the slippers she kept by the door, shuffling over to the wall and clicking off the light switch.

Her eyes were swollen, with dark circles from a long night of partying, and she reeked of a mixture of sweat, booze, and sex.

“You got laid!” I jumped back and pointed at her accusingly.

“Please don’t shout. I feel like I have a mini construction crew drilling for oil in my head.”

“How was it?”

“How was what?” She covered her eyes with her hand and navigated slowly to the couch, where she proceeded to lay down and pull a throw pillow over her face.

“Getting laid?”

“You talk as though you never have.”

“Oh, shut up. Not my fault you drank until your body called for a time-out.”

“How the hell aren’t you hung over? Didn’t you drink as much as I did?”

“I was drunk, sure. But I sobered up.”

I remembered the exact time I sobered up.

Friends.

With benefits.

Too bad.

I walked to the kitchen and grabbed a sports drink from the fridge and a couple of aspirin from the cabinet.

“Here. Take these.”

Sarah peeked out from under the pillow before sitting up and dutifully taking the medicine.

“Thank you,” she said as she handed the bottle back to me.

“Come on, let’s get you to bed.”

I pulled her up and she crashed into me. I pulled my face away and crinkled my nose.

“But first, you need a shower. Did you at least have fun?”

“Yeah. Drew is great. Drew the awesome screw!” She giggled before burping up whatever greasy after-hours diner food she must have consumed.

“And I think we’ll brush your teeth, too.”

I turned on the water in the shower while Sarah sat naked on the toilet picking her toenails. Putting toothpaste on her toothbrush, I handed it to her and steered her into the shower, closing the curtain and taking her place on the lid of the toilet.

“Oh my God! The water feels so awesome!”

“That’s right. Scrub, scrub, scrub. Brush, brush, brush.”

“So, you and Ryan disappeared last night for a bit. Where did you go?”

“Upstairs. He lives above the bar, Brian’s place.”

“Oh, right. Brian was none too happy when he saw you two were gone.”

“Why would he care?” I held up my close-up mirror and cringed at the blackhead forming next to my nose.

“You really are clueless sometimes. Brian really likes you. But, I mean, Ryan’s great, too. Maybe you guys will go somewhere with all this.

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