Entice Me Box Set: The Truth About Shoes and Men\Cover Me\My Favorite Mistake by Stephanie Bond

Author:Stephanie Bond [Bond, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460337776
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

22

BY THE TIME Monday rolled around, my pillow was a sodden mess, but I had consoled myself that Sam finding out about the stupid curse hadn’t changed anything really. From the beginning, the feelings between us had been lopsided—after all, when he’d returned home from Manhattan, he’d called April, not me. He had fallen in like with me only after I’d gone to stay with him. And upon hindsight, his request for me to stay there probably had more to do with my computer skills than my emotional appeal.

Somehow I managed to fall back into my weekday morning schedule—grabbing a cup of coffee from Starbucks on the way to work, and arriving at the Woolworth Building early enough to snatch a doughnut from the break room.

On the way out of the break room, I ran into Daniel Cruz.

“Hello,” he said with a smile.

“Hi.”

“You’re back.”

I nodded.

“Your hair looks nice.”

“Thanks.”

“I saw the story about you and the veterinarian.”

I managed a flat smile and kept nodding. The cover curse had been picked up by the media and was now up for debate—the mystical camp believed that Sam being hurt was destiny, the cynical camp was convinced I’d run over his foot on purpose to extend the curse.

“So, how about catching that movie this weekend?” he asked.

He was a perfectly nice, perfectly nice-looking man who was interested in spending time with me. It was a shame, because most women would find Daniel extremely appealing, and I didn’t. Ironically, the overused line was really true this time—it wasn’t him, it was me. It wouldn’t be fair to use Daniel as a distraction while Sam was still so fresh in my mind and so deep in my heart. I smiled. “I need a few days to catch up—can I have a rain check?”

“Sure,” he said, although the interest drained out of his eyes. “I’ll see you later.”

I trudged toward my office telling myself that I’d done the right thing for both of us. When I saw the stack of work on my desk, I almost buckled, but told myself that tackling work was the best way to keep my mind occupied. Helena called a staff meeting midmorning and announced my position change and my column idea. April shot daggers at me, but I couldn’t even work up enough sentiment to gloat—I had retreated into a sort of haze, moving and responding automatically until I could rebound emotionally from the previous week.

I arrived back at my office to the tune of my phone ringing—a single tone that signaled an external call. My pulse raced, thinking it probably wasn’t one of the girls since we’d spent most of the weekend together and I was sure they were thoroughly sick of my whining.

I snatched up the receiver, trying to quell the hope that Sam would be calling.

“Kenzie Mansfield.”

“Hi, sweetheart.”

I smiled. “Hi, Dad.”

“I was calling to see if we could have lunch tomorrow.”

I brightened. “Tomorrow? That would be great.”

“Actually, I wanted to see what you thought about me staying for a couple of days.

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