Suddenly Mine: The new magical, Christmas, second-chance, billionaire romance (APEX Billionaires’ Club Book 3) by Katie Evergreen

Author:Katie Evergreen [Evergreen, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Choc Lit Contemporary Romance: A Joffe Books Company
Published: 2025-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

MERRY

Merry slouched through the toy department, too tired to even glance at Santa. She was late again, but this time it had nothing to do with traffic and everything to do with a tall, dark stranger.

“Honestly, if you never see him again, it was still worth it,” her roommate had declared over cornflakes that morning. “You look like you’ve been hit by a truck, in a good way. And that was the hottest sex I’ve ever heard.”

Merry had blushed, bleary-eyed and sore in places that made walking feel oddly theatrical. But as she pulled on her boots in the hallway, trying not to wince, the ache in her body was nothing compared to the one sitting squarely in her chest. Christian was leaving New York. He’d told her that much.

She’d hoped — stupidly, maybe — that he’d change his mind. Or at least say something in daylight that made sense of the way he’d looked at her in the dark. But when she woke up alone, with only a half-drunk glass of water by the bed, she wasn’t sure if she’d been something he wanted or just something he needed. Maybe she wasn’t supposed to know the difference. Maybe it didn’t matter.

As she reached the staff area door, it started to open. Two girls that Merry half knew from the store floor walked out, and when they saw her they burst into giggles. Merry frowned, watching them go and feeling suddenly worried. Had she forgotten to put on trousers? Did she have I-had-hot-sex-last-night written on her face? She patted herself down as she walked into the corridor, but everything seemed to be where it was supposed to be.

Another girl walked past, her cheeks reddening and her mouth curling into a smile as she peeked at Merry. Then a guy passed her, and he too was smirking like she was the butt of some joke.

“What?” Merry said to his back, but her words were too quiet for him to hear.

It felt like one of those nightmares where everybody stares at you and you end up naked. Ahead, the locker room door opened and Alice skipped out, doing her hair as she went. Her eyes widened when she saw Merry, and she pulled the hairpin from between her lips.

“Yes, Merry!” she said, pinning her hair back. “You’re here.”

“What’s going on?” Merry asked. “I feel like I’ve got, like, a teapot growing out of my head or something.”

“Better than that,” said Alice, taking Merry’s arm and leading her into the locker room. “We’ve all been trying to guess. Who is it?”

Who is what? she wanted to ask, but she’d suddenly forgotten how to speak.

The large locker room looked exactly the way it had yesterday: lockers down each side for the staff to put their belongings, benches lined up down the middle, a door that led to the restrooms and showers. The only thing that was different was a bouquet of white, pink and red roses sitting on one of the benches. She could smell them from here.

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