A Blockbuster Proposal_The Trouble with Dating an Actor by Lucy McConnell

Author:Lucy McConnell [McConnell, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orchard View Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Room 216 was easy enough to find. There was loud music pouring from underneath and around the door, spewing into the hallway. Mark raised his eyebrows as he knocked on the door.

A woman in a white bathrobe opened the door and gave him the once-over. She recognized him immediately. “You’re Mark Dubois. Honey—come see this. It’s Mark!”

She used his first name as if they were friends. George popped his head into the hallway. “Mark! My man. Come on in.” George adopted a sense of familiarity that caused the hair on the back of Mark’s neck to stand on end.

“I can’t. I was just delivering this to Allie—is she around?” He couldn’t imagine her hanging out with these two, but stranger things had happened. She was so nice, maybe she’d asked them to stay for a while before going to their hotel.

“Naw, they carted her off to some other hotel. Me and my lady are living it up tonight—aren’t we babe?”

“We sure are.” She ran her hand down her chest, opening her robe a few more inches in the process. Mark quickly averted his eyes.

Wait—If George was here, that meant that Allie was at a dive hotel. “You guys can have this, then. Have a great night.” Mark shoved the bag of bath stuff at George and took off down the hallway. The elevator didn’t open right away, so he hit the stairwell, pulling his phone out of his back pocket as he ran.

Kate picked up on the third ring. “What did you do?” he demanded.

“What?” Kate sounded like she might have been asleep. He wouldn’t blame her for going to bed, especially since she’d had to deal with George for most of the day.

“Allie was supposed to be at the Ritz, not that sleazeball cop.”

“Technically he was the one who held the winning ticket, and I didn’t think kicking him out would be a good idea,” defended Kate. “He could have sued or demanded a redo of the entire day or who knows what gumbo he would have cooked up.”

Mark handed his ticket to the valet. “Any gentleman would have given the lady the better room.”

“Well, obviously he’s not a gentleman.”

Mark cursed. “I’ve got to fix this.”

“What can I do to help?” Kate was firing on all cylinders now.

“See if you can get her a room here, on a different floor. I’m going to get her.”

“I’m sending directions to her hotel to your phone. I’ll call you right back about the room.”

They hung up just as his car was delivered to the curb. He tipped the silver-haired man and slid behind the wheel. His phone beeped and he set the GPS.

A half hour later he pulled into the cracked and weathered parking lot of the One Night Only Motel. An airport shuttle bus was parked just to the left of the front door and three rough-looking characters hung out on the bench, smoking and grumbling about the short stick life had given them. Allie’s room was just to the left. The lights on low.

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