Rekindling Christmas by Hines Yvette

Author:Hines, Yvette [Hines, Yvette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whispers Publishing
Published: 2012-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Ryanne heard the banging late on her door. It sounded as if a pack of zebras were kicking it. Turning her head, she stared at the door, considering whether or not to answer it. Maybe it was just a rowdy group of drunken guests terrorizing anyone they could.

“Rye!” The banging continued.

She could have sworn she heard someone call her name. That didn’t make sense; there were only two people here who knew her, and a handful of ladies she’d met the night before. She couldn’t see them coming for her at this hour.

After she’d washed, dried, and spent more than thirty minutes flat-ironing her hair, she’d sent a message to the desk clerk asking her to notify Carson that she was not coming down for dinner. She’d lied and said she was unwell. She knew she was avoiding him, but she needed the distance to put things back into perspective. Carson had always been her friend throughout her childhood. Nothing more.

Before she left for college, she knew she’d developed very deep feelings for him, but they’d never been remotely reciprocated by him, except when they’d said good-bye and she’d almost kissed him. However, her mother had saved her from that mistake. Now, there was no one to save her from this folly but herself. The best way she’d decided to do that was by keeping a reasonable distance away from Carson and only seeing him within a group.

Her door rattled again. Shaking her head, she realized whoever was on the other side was not going away. Tossing her blanket off her legs, laying her book down on the cushion, she then set her glass of wine, from the bottle she had ordered with her room service meal, on the table and padded toward the door.

Looking through the peephole she saw that it was not a group of drunken revelers but one reveler: Carson. Leaning her head against the back of the door, she sighed. She’d thought to escape him at least until tomorrow, but evidently she wasn’t going to be so fortunate.

“Rye!” he called out again.

Pulling the door open, she stared at the gorgeous man as every sensation she’d felt in his arms in the pool came raining down on her under the perusal of his gray eyes.

“Hi, sugar-lips…” He seemed to bump into the doorjamb more than lean against it as he smiled.

“Carson, what are you doing here?” She clutched the edge of the door in her hand.

“What am I doing here? Ha!” He wagged a finger at her, as if he were trying to figure out a puzzle. “What are you still doing here?”

“I didn’t want to be bothered. Didn’t you get my message?”

He pushed away from the jamb and stepped toward her, placing one of his hands on the wall and the other on the door, caging her in. Nervous butterflies took flight in her stomach. She tried to ignore the excitement of being near him again and feeling his warm breath caress her face. The piquant scent of alcohol tainted his breath, intoxicating her.

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