Colton by Lori Wilde & Carolyn Greene

Author:Lori Wilde & Carolyn Greene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L&C

7

A rocky start didn’t begin to describe it.

First, a bee was attracted to the hairspray that April was unaccustomed to wearing. When Jasmine had tried to swat it away from her hair, the agitated insect had stung April on the cheek.

Then, as most of the guests were leaving, Colton’s uncle Al had taken his hearing aid out and couldn’t remember where he’d left it. Colton, April, and the remaining guests had spent more than an hour searching for it, only to have Uncle Al discover it in his shirt pocket.

And, of course, Deputy Dugg couldn’t resist giving them a wedding present...a ticket for littering when the soda cans someone tied to the back of their car broke loose on the road.

And now, when they’d finally reached their hotel room after two and a half hours of driving and April was ready to claim one of the beds as her own, they opened the door to discover only one bed. A king-size bed.

“We’re going to have to move to another room,” she said after they set their luggage down. “I’ll call the front desk.”

“No.” Colton took the receiver from her hand and put it back on the phone. “If we change rooms, they’ll charge a different rate, and your mother will know about it when she gets her credit card receipt.”

He was right. April looked around the room, but there was no sofa for one of them to sleep on. Besides the dresser and nightstand, there was a small round table with two upholstered chairs. She searched through her purse until she came up with a quarter.

“Call it,” she said. “Heads or tails?”

“What are you doing?”

“Trying to decide who sleeps on the floor tonight.”

“I don’t think so.” He caught the quarter as it spun in the air and pocketed it. “I’m not sleeping on the floor, and neither are you.”

“Fine,” she said, pulling the covers back. “I hope you’re comfortable in the chair.”

She could feel him watching her. She was already nervous about this setup, and his steady scrutiny was making it even worse. He stepped closer, and she tried to ignore him. Tried to ignore the tightness in her chest.

He stilled her hands with his own and turned her toward him. “We can sleep together in this bed,” he told her calmly. “It’s no big deal.”

“Buddy—”

“We’re lifelong best friends. We know each other better than anyone else knows either of us. Heck, we’ve even seen each other topless.”

April smiled at the memory. At preschool they used to splash together in the wading pool, and sometimes more than their shirts would come off. “Things have changed since then,” she reminded him.

She was aware of his gaze roaming over her body and, for some strange reason that she couldn’t explain, it excited her.

“They definitely have,” he concurred.

The same could be said for him. But standing this close to the bed, she thought it would be wiser not to focus on the way the soft curly hairs peeked out the top of his shirt.

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