Snowflakes and Mistletoe at the Inglenook Inn by Helen Rolfe

Author:Helen Rolfe [Rolfe, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781804156186
Publisher: Boldwood Books

15

DARCY

Five days until Christmas

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Darcy couldn’t stop looking at her dress. Secure in the side of the closet that Sofia had emptied for her, it hung there as a reminder that she had a date. The last time she’d been on a date had been… well, she couldn’t actually remember, which, she supposed, was why she really had to go on this one. Part of her still thought it unprofessional to date a guest – didn’t it fall into the student/teacher or doctor/patient realm? But deep down she knew she was simply looking for excuses because she was afraid.

She took out the earrings from the drawer in the nightstand, unfastened one from the velvet insert and, in front of the ornate white free-standing mirror, she pushed it into her ear lobe. It shone as though telling her to put the other one in quickly before she changed her mind about the unexpected gift from Myles. When they were both in place she touched her fingers lightly to the jewellery, still scarcely able to believe he’d already given her diamonds before they’d even been out on a date. But when her gaze focused on her pale-pink, fluffy pyjamas instead, she plummeted back to earth. She was an ordinary girl, about to go out with a man who had plenty of issues and who felt way out of her league. She expected he usually dated women who dressed top to toe in Chanel or Gucci, not women who skipped the designer stores and found something for a fraction of the price. Myles’s women probably wore silk nighties to bed, not pyjamas like hers, and a pair of diamond earrings most likely slotted in with an already sizeable collection of equally impressive pieces.

Darcy took the earrings off, put them back in their box, and tucked them away in the drawer of the nightstand. She went through to the kitchenette, put the kettle on, and as it boiled and rumbled and steam shot out of the spout, she knew she needed to get her head sorted and go back to business-Darcy, not going-on-a-date-and-fretting-Darcy, because today her all-important guest would be checking in and she wanted the apartment she was staying in to be utterly perfect.

When Darcy had managed to arrange this magazine editor staying at the Inn, it’d been a total fluke. It was a case of being in the right place at the right time. Darcy had been dropping off her résumé at a hotel on Broadway. She didn’t want to send it in the mail because she knew that it made a good impression to hand-deliver it and whoever she spoke to would have a face to put to the name. And so, at the hotel, she’d confidently asked to see the manager and handed her documentation over. There was a possibility of a job opening in the New Year and Darcy was excited to have something, anything, in the pipeline after her stint at the Inn came to a close.

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