Screwed: A V Card Diaries Novel by Lili Valente

Author:Lili Valente [Valente, Lili]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Fifteen

Harlow

The rest of the day passes in a flurry of activity.

There’s a hot chocolate and s’mores buffet at the end of the sleigh ride. The adults gather around the fire pits to stay warm, while the kids feed our hardworking horses carrots and apple slices.

Then Mom surprises me with the news that she’s found a top-rated salon in a village an hour away and she’s taking me to get my hair fixed. Her treat.

I’m nervous—especially when I see the cutesy gingerbread house where “I’ll Cut You Good” is located, and the hundreds of cross-stitched pillows decorating the sitting room. This place is way more country than any salon I’ve stepped foot in since I was a kid, but the owner is a sassy older woman who immediately puts me at ease by suggesting the angled bob cut I already had in mind.

By the time the sun sets, I’ve been cut, dried, and styled and am feeling much better about the morning hair massacre. I wouldn’t have chosen to cut my hair, but I can’t deny the choppy bob is edgy, stylish, and professional looking.

And I don’t look nearly as masculine as I’d feared.

Mom and I hurry into the lodge to join the end of the dinner-already-in-progress, where I’m not all that surprised to find that Derrick has already ordered me food to go, just in case I didn’t get back in time.

He’s shockingly thoughtful. And knows me better than I ever suspected.

I creak open the paper carton to reveal the butternut squash ravioli I would have chosen for myself and grilled broccolini, my favorite. “Wow,” I say, my brows lifting.

“The selections are to your liking?” he asks over the rim of his wineglass.

“The selections are perfect.”

“Much like me,” he says with a smug grin. “How did you get so lucky?”

I laugh and elbow his ribs. “I don’t know. But you’d better have ordered some wine to go, too.”

He reaches down and lifts a bottle with a paper bag wrapped around it from the floor beside his chair. “Done. But they had to wrap it up before we could take it from the dining hall. Something about local liquor laws.”

I hum in appreciation. “Wow. You’re batting a thousand today.”

“Does that mean you’re in the mood to do me a solid?”

I nod. “Sure. What’s up?”

“Our trivia night got me thinking…I should probably bone up on the Hissing Muskrats’ franchise history and recent trades before the interview on Thursday. Want to help me make some flash cards back at the room?”

“Absolutely,” I say, both relieved and disappointed by the purely friendly request. Just this morning, I was so freaked out by Derrick’s insinuation he’d like to date me that I was considering moving to Lauren’s room.

But that’s no longer on the table, and not just because Lauren and I are still in the “uneasy truce” stage of our post-fight journey.

It’s because I want to be with Derrick. I want to spend more time talking, laughing, and just hanging out with him. And those kisses like the ones this morning…

They were the sweetest, sexiest kisses I’ve ever had.

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