Priceless by Nicole Richie

Author:Nicole Richie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Calif.), Life change events, Contemporary Women, Hollywood (Los Angeles, New Orleans (La.), Celebrities, General, Coming of Age, Children of the rich, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Rich & Famous
ISBN: 9781439166154
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-09-28T04:31:31.786713+00:00

Chapter

TWENTY-ONE

Sunday morning in New Orleans, particularly in the older parts of the city, had a weird magic all its own. On the one hand, you have your hungover frat boys, slumped at café tables, still a little drunk and more than a little nauseated, and on the other, you have the freshly in love, just met the night before, couples sharing breakfast for the first time. You like toast? I like toast! Table A, spoonheads with their hats on the right way for once, the brims shading their aching eyes, silently contemplating death. Table B, stubble-burned chins and gleaming eyes, long silences and intertwined fingers, sudden calling for the check.

Charlotte regarded all this over the rim of her café au lait, trying to ignore the fact that Scarsford was digging into deep-fried French toast at her side. Finally, she couldn’t bear it.

“That stuff will kill you, you know.”

He looked up. “French toast? I doubt it. It might make me fat, but it won’t kill me.”

“Sugar is a silent killer.”

“Really?” He made yum-yum noises, smacking his lips. “It’s not all that silent, is it? Sounds delicious to me.” He was actually exhausted, having spent the night in the hotel lobby, dozing in an uncomfortable chair, watching the doors, while Charlotte slept alone in his room upstairs. When she’d come out of the bathroom, he’d been gone. He needed some sugar and caffeine to get going.

He signaled the waitress for more coffee, and as she took his cup, she caught Charlotte’s eye and made the universal face for “hot guy, nice work.” Charlotte sighed inwardly.

“What’s the plan?” she asked Scarsford, who was wiping his mouth and sitting back, looking a lot better than he had earlier.

“There isn’t a plan.” He shrugged. “I can’t get you into protective custody, because the guy’s only made phone calls, and you have a job to go to, anyway, remember?”

“If they still want me.” Charlotte was worried that David Karraby would rather avoid waitresses with stalkers, and who would blame him? “I should go find Jackson and see how he’s doing. I feel bad he ended up at the police station for so long.”

Scarsford paid the check and got up. “I’m going to go shower and get it together, OK? Why don’t you go sort things out with Jackson and meet me later?”

“Why?”

There was a pause.

“Uh, to talk. I want to teach you a little about stalkers, about self-defense, about being watchful. This guy probably won’t ever do anything beyond picking up the phone, but you never know.” He smiled at her. “It would be a pity if you got all bruised up again, now that your nose is back to its normal size.”

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