Harlequin E New Adult Romance Box Set Volume 1: Burning Moon\Girls' Guide to Getting It Together\Rookie in Love by Jo Watson

Author:Jo Watson [Watson, Jo; Lindley, Amber; White, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460336151
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Wherever Zara was last night, it turns out that it wasn’t in the company of an axe murderer.

I wake up the next morning to find her crashed out on the settee, her pale face smudged with makeup, her wild acting as a pillow.

She can’t have been with Gary, either, so I guess that means I’ll have to rethink my earlier assumptions about who her mystery boyfriend is.

Oh, God. When did I become like Scarlett?

Leaving her to sleep, I head to work, where things aren’t any less weird.

Scarlett is at her desk, clutching a plastic bucket in one hand and copy of Cosmopolitan in the other.

“Morning,” she grunts, pushing her unusually wavy dark hair out of her face.

“Still sick?” I plonk my purse down on the desk and study her melon-green face.

She nods. “Don’t worry. You aren’t going to catch anything.”

“Does Nora know you’re here?” I scan the empty office.

Scarlett shakes her head. “That’s why I’m reading this.” She waves the magazine in the air. “Keep an eye on the door for me.” She places the bucket on the standard-issue, office brown carpet near her feet and flips the issue of Cosmo open on her desk.

I watch as her eyes flick over the printed pages, but it doesn’t’ look like she’s taking any of it in.

Food poisoning or not, I can tell something is going on with Scarlett. But I don’t ask her about it yet. I know that she’ll tell me when she’s ready to.

Tonight, I have an unavoidable arrangement to meet my mum and Phil for tea. She’s picked the Toby Carvery in Rothwell, just a five-minute walk back to my flat for when I make my excuses and leave.

I’d much rather be asking Zara a few questions about where she got to last night than suffering through an awkward evening meal with my mother, listening to her going on about how wonderful Bryony’s winter-wonderland engagement party is going to be.

She’s planning to hold the party outside. Outside! In freezing-cold English December. That’s a reason why I don’t want to go already. Aside from the fact that Bryony is likely to be completely insufferable at such an event, as per bloody usual.

Leaving work, the last person I want to see is Liam Wiseman. But of course, there he is in reception, leaning over the marble counter talking to Charlotte.

I give him a scornful look as I push open the heavy glass doors so that he’s clear that I definitely do not have a sad, pathetic crush on him.

Outside, I stop to adjust my unravelling scarf before I head off to meet Mum. Liam appears on the pavement beside me like he’s teleported there.

“Yes?” I say with a hard stare in his direction. “Do you want something?”

“I wondered if you had Nora’s phone number.” He fiddles with the buttons on his jacket. “I’ve got a report to get to her and Charlotte says she’s already gone.”

“Why would I have it?” I snap.

“I thought you two were friends.”

“I’m sure Charlotte’s got everything you need on that computer of hers.

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