At the Summer Wedding by Caroline Linden & Katharine Ashe & Miranda Neville & Caroline Linden

Author:Caroline Linden & Katharine Ashe & Miranda Neville & Caroline Linden
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780986053924
Publisher: Caroline Linden

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Later, while helping her sister wash her hair, she invented stories about the sexy hat guy to distract herself from worries and amuse Zoe.

“Maybe he’s a spy hired by Dick to take incriminating vids to send to the anonymous donor so I’ll get fired.”

“Or he’s a really lazy drug dealer,” Zoe said, rubbing her spiky locks with a towel. Four years younger than Cali, she was infinitely hipper.

“Or maybe beneath the hat he has three eyes and an alien brow ridge, and he’s just hanging around in the park to study humans before the big invasion.” She shook two pills from a bottle and dropped them onto Zoe’s palm.

“You should tell him go to the mall instead.” Zoe swallowed the pills with water from a plastic Iron Man cup. Zoe had a thing for Tony Stark. “More people there.”

Cali smiled.

“But I like the other scenario best.” Zoe ran the three fingers on her left hand through her damp hair. “The one where he’s the anonymous patron of the mobile library just checking up on his investment. Wouldn’t that be great? If it’d been him all along?”

“Sure. Other than the alien explanation, it’s the most likely.”

“He’s hot, right?”

“I’ve no idea. I’ve never seen his face.”

“But you said he’s got a hot body.”

“I think so.” The Levis and loose button-down didn’t reveal much. But his shoulders were broad. And once, when he’d gotten a phone call, stood up, and loped out of the park, the chamois shirt had caught in his belt. She’d liked the way his jeans hugged his hips. A lot. Too much. “He’s got a great butt.” Tight. Hot.

“Nobody says butt anymore, Cal. Do you ever read those magazines you check out of the library?”

“I get them for the ads.” She paged through Cartier watches, Manolo Blahnik shoes, and DKNY lingerie. And fantasized. “Ass. He’s got a great ass. Are you happy?”

A sleepy smile creased the scars around Zoe’s lips. The meds were kicking in. “When’s Jane’s wedding, again?”

“In four weeks.”

“You have to go. Cut loose for a change.” Zoe’s eyelids drooped. “You’ve got a week of paid vacation you’ll lose if you don’t use it.”

She’d been saving it for emergencies. The more Zoe healed, though, the less she thought she’d need it. But it was always best to be careful.

“Cutting loose isn’t my style, Zoe.”

“You’re going to England, Cali. You’re going to meet a hot, rich guy, have a crazy whirlwind romance, and he’s going to fall in love with you,” her sister said dreamily. “Then we’ll get to live in a mansion like we would’ve if Dad hadn’t turned into such a fuckup.”

Cali brushed a lock of hair off her sister’s brow, fingers scraping over the hard skin where the burns had penetrated to the bone. “Night, goofball,” she whispered.

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