Flash Point by Metsy Hingle

Author:Metsy Hingle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

She’d simply had to get away from that house and the party, Meredith admitted as she knocked on Kelly’s hotel room door. Thanks to Alex she’d been feeling blue and hurt and flat-out miserable when she’d seen Kelly practically run out of the place. And before she’d even gotten a chance to talk to the woman about doing the photos, too.

Only once she’d gotten into her car, she’d realized she had no place to go. In the past when things had gotten to be too much, she’d always gone to Alex’s. But not this time. Not ever again, she swore. Suddenly the ache inside her started all over again as she thought of him, of the way he had rejected her. And on the heels of that hurt came anger. Well, he’d never get the chance to hurt her again, she vowed. She’d show him. She’d show everyone that she could do just fine. And then they would be sorry. More determined than ever, she pounded her fist on the door. “Damn it, Kelly. Open the door. It’s Meredith.”

Moments later locks clicked and the door opened. Kelly stood there wearing a thick white terry-cloth robe, a towel wrapped around her head and a scowl on her face. “What are you doing here?”

“You left the party before we got a chance to talk about you doing those ads for Indulgences,” Meredith informed her. “So I decided to come over.”

“It’s late, and as you can see I was getting ready for bed.”

“It’s not that late.” Exasperated, she said, “Oh for pity’s sake, quit scowling at me and let me in. I really do need to talk with you.”

The elevator dinged. “Listen, Meredith, now is really not a good time to start badgering me about doing photos for you because I’m in a foul mood and—”

“Then we should get along just fine because so am I,” she said, and to prove her point, she barely missed catching Kelly’s bare toes with her spike heels as she bulldozed past her and into the hotel suite.

“Come right in and make yourself at home, why don’t you,” Kelly told her with no small amount of sarcasm.

“Thank you, I will,” Meredith replied, feeling just as annoyed as Kelly looked. She walked over and sat down on one of the couches. “And you might as well stop glaring at me. I told you, I’m in a lousy mood, too.”

After a moment’s hesitation, Kelly walked over to the opposite couch and sat down. “You know, Meredith, in all the years we were at St. Joseph’s together and even when you came to New York a few years ago, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you do that before.”

“Do what?”

“Walk past a mirror and not check out your own reflection.”

“Funny,” Meredith told her.

“Will wonders never cease? You still haven’t said a word about the tacky robe that I’m wearing.”

“You already know it’s tacky. You don’t need me to tell you,” Meredith advised her. “And if that little dig about the mirror was supposed to tick me off so that I’d leave, you’ll have to do a lot better than that.

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