Snowed In & Set Up by Whitley Cox

Author:Whitley Cox [Cox, Whitley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995821088
Published: 2018-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Amber smoothed down the front of her lacy red dress and checked herself out in the full-length mirror on the back of her bedroom door. She’d decided to abandon her customary ponytail and instead leave her hair down, falling around her shoulders in gentle red waves. Not one for makeup, she didn’t really have much to work with. A bit of lip gloss and some bronzer for those days she was feeling extra ghostly. She’d snorted, scoffed and rolled her eyes when her sisters-in-law, Jill and Penny, had taken her shopping and tossed bronzer into the basket. “By January you’re practically translucent,” Jill had said. “Just brush some on in the morning. No one will even know. But at least you won’t look dead.” She’d been right, of course. And even though Amber didn’t bother with bronzer most days, it was never not in the center console of her truck, just in case.

Those girly-girls had also helped her buy the dress. It had been for her other brother Tyler’s Valentine’s Day wedding. She hadn’t had a clue what to wear. The other women had taken pity on her, and the three of them had gone shopping for the day and then hit up the spa. Not exactly Amber’s idea of fun, but in the end she’d managed to enjoy herself. Despite how much estrogen and Nina Ricci perfume wafted off her sisters-in-law, she did love them.

She studied herself in the mirror again, then against her better judgment, pinched her cheeks.

Damn, this is the second time I’ve pinched my cheeks. What is the hot doctor doing to me?

Then, digging in her bag, she pulled out something, walked to her door and turned off the light. A quick peek out proved no one was around, and noises from the kitchen revealed the majority of the houseguests to be drinking and laughing and getting ready for dinner. Perfect!

Wandering over to the hall closet, she pulled out the stepstool, then carried it over in front of Hunter’s bedroom door. She put her ear to the solid wood. Good. She wasn’t inside. It was only one step up, but that wasn’t even enough, and Amber found herself teetering on her tippy toes trying to stick the pushpin into the doorjamb. You’d think by this time she would try to find another, higher stool.

“What are you doing?” came a deep masculine rumble from the head of the hallway.

Amber spun around and lost her footing. Suddenly, there was nothing beneath her feet, and the ground was looking awfully close and hard.

“Whoa, whoa!” Will said, lurching forward and grabbing Amber at the last second. His strong arms braced her awkwardly as she toppled against him. “You okay?”

She nodded. His big chest had knocked the wind right out of her. “Yeah, you just spooked me.”

Will set her on her feet, then took the object she was trying to hang above the door from her hand. “Mistletoe?”

Amber looked down at her feet, and she curled her chocolate-plum-painted toes. It’d

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