Hers for the Weekend by Tanya Michaels

Author:Tanya Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

9

HOURS LATER, Piper still couldn’t get the ridiculous claim out of her head. Darn Daphne’s overactive imagination. You’re in love.

“I am not,” she assured her reflection.

The woman staring back from the hotel room mirror didn’t look convinced.

Forget about that and just finish getting ready. Easier said than done. Everyone had been too full from the food at the shower to handle a sit-down dinner, so she and Josh had had more than enough time to return to the hotel and get ready to go out tonight. At least, it would have been enough for a woman who hadn’t applied, washed off and reapplied her makeup, not to mention changed clothes a ridiculous number of times.

She could blame Daphne for that, too. When they’d stopped at Daph’s place earlier, her sister had given her several like-new outfits. Piper had laughingly argued that Daphne would probably fit into these again someday, even if it didn’t seem like it now, but her sister had said the clothes would be out of style by then and besides, this gave her an excuse for future shopping. Now, Piper had entirely too many wardrobe choices.

Recalling Josh’s blatant admiration this afternoon, she had first toyed with the idea of wearing a skirt tonight. Then annoyance had seeped through her system like a noxious liquid. That kind of change, though admittedly small, had been how things started to go wrong with Charlie. And at least he’d been willing to spend his life with her. She rarely knew ahead of time if Josh would be spending his lunch hour with her.

Discarding the skirt, she’d tried to split the difference by putting on comfortably worn jeans but wearing sexy makeup and her hair loose. Then she’d realized that was stupid. Even though the covered patio-style bar would be nice and cool tonight, dancing would warm her up considerably and possibly have her makeup smudged and her hair limp. Besides, did she really think it was a good idea to do anything that could be construed as sexy? No.

What a sorry state she was in—she didn’t want to attract Josh, but apparently wanted to look noticeably great around him, all the same. Weird twisted female logic.

Not as twisted as the idea that you might be in love with him.

Well, she wasn’t, she told herself as she yanked her hair up into a bouncy ponytail. Luckily, the cheerful, curly end result didn’t reflect the mood she’d been in while styling. She limited her makeup to some color around her eyes and shiny gloss that promised “kissable lips.” Just a figure of speech, written by some schmo in a marketing department somewhere. It had nothing to do with the course of her evening. For clothes, she went back to the crisp black jeans she’d started with this morning, accompanied by a snazzy little red sweater with cap sleeves and a scooped neckline that had more of a dip than her usual tops. She had the benefit of feeling sexy, but could still tell herself she hadn’t gone to any extra trouble.

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