To Have And To Hold: The Wedding Belles Book 1 by Lauren Layne

Author:Lauren Layne [Layne, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472242839
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-07-25T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

SETH KNEW THAT PEOPLE thought living in a hotel was lonely, but the truth was, it usually wasn’t.

He liked the location. He liked the room service. Liked coming home to a freshly made bed and clean sink and never having to change a lightbulb.

But on Thursday evening as he wheeled his overnight bag into his set of suites after a long-ass, delayed flight back from Hong Kong, neck cramped, eyes gritty, and body tired down to his very bones, Seth paused in the foyer and looked at his home differently.

And for the first time in as long as he could remember, he wished for . . . something. Someone.

A dog. Even a godforsaken cat.

Or, maybe, a sassy-mouthed blond wedding planner.

He pushed this last thought aside as he dropped his keys on the console and flicked on the lights. Seth hadn’t heard from Brooke since last Friday when she’d rejected his kiss. While he couldn’t quite say he was over the sting of her rejection, at least he hadn’t done damage to her working relationship with his sister. A couple of casual questions to Maya had reassured him that Brooke was still very much the wedding planner.

The whole thing was just as well, he thought as he entered the small but modern kitchen and opened the fridge door. Getting involved with any woman wasn’t on the agenda right now. Not when every last drop of his energy went toward being a CEO worthy of filling his father’s shoes.

But if he were to get involved with a woman, it sure as hell shouldn’t be with one to whom he’d be writing a fat paycheck in a few months.

And unfortunately for Seth, he was increasingly worried that he would be writing a check. So far he’d turned up no tangible dirt on Neil, and his sister had given no indication that she regretted accepting the man’s proposal.

There was, of course, still the chance that Brooke might turn something up during the course of wedding planning, but it had been a long shot that she’d sabotage her own paycheck in the first place. Now that he’d gone and made a move on her, he wasn’t exactly betting the ranch that she was going to join his anti–Maya and Neil wedding campaign.

Which left him with the private investigator that Seth hadn’t quite worked up the courage to call back.

Seth closed the refrigerator door upon realizing that it was mostly empty. Fine. He wasn’t hungry so much as restless.

And not restless so much as horny.

“Shit,” he muttered, bracing his hands on the granite counter, and debated a cold shower. But he’d been trying that for days, and so far it had been completely ineffective at banishing images of Brooke from his mind.

For the three days he’d been out of the country, he’d been telling himself that he’d call up one of his old flings the moment he got back to New York. As far as little black books went, his was underdeveloped compared to Grant’s, but there were a handful of women who he’d consider friends with benefits.

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