Kiss & Makeup by Alison Kent

Author:Alison Kent [Kent, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Adult
Goodreads: 2273482
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-07-31T12:00:00+00:00

QUENTIN WASN’T SURE WHEN he’d shared a better home-cooked meal or sat down to one more interesting. Evan’s moving announcement had caught Shandi totally off guard.

Rather strange that her roommate would announce such a decision in front of a disinterested audience, but then what did Quentin know about the relationship Shandi shared with the other couple?

Meeting the two, he would have thought April to be the roommate and Evan to be the visiting boyfriend. That wasn’t the case at all.

From what Quentin had managed to gather before the subject had been dropped, Evan’s grandmother owned the apartment he and Shandi shared and allowed them to live rent free since their relationship was platonic.

Though the details were fuzzy, never having been completely spelled out, it appeared Shandi was going to have to come up with cash she didn’t have for rent and living expenses for a move she clearly didn’t want to make.

He couldn’t blame her, standing as he was in her kitchen that reminded him of the set from Friends and pouring her another glass of wine.

They were alone again at last, the other couple having left after the four of them had worked together to clean the kitchen. Shandi hadn’t said much while scraping dishes and loading the dishwasher.

He could tell her mind was elsewhere, no doubt calculating her schedule and her finances, time taken away from school in order to move, extra time put in at work to afford the change.

Picking up both of their glasses and crossing the room to where she stood in front of the wall of windows looking out into the night, he realized they never had talked about her class project.

The evening’s conversation had instead been casual banter sprinkled with queries about his career and several stilted references to Evan’s announcement.

It was time for a distraction, he decided, handing her the wine. “Not a bad view except for the buildings in the way.”

“Funny guy,” she said, taking the glass and holding it close but not drinking. “I’m looking at the sky. Or what I can see of it anyway.”

From here there wasn’t much. A few stars was all. A sliver of moon. “What’s on the roof of the building?”

She thought for a moment, then shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve never been up there.”

“So? Let’s go.”

She glanced over. “To the roof?”

“Why not? More sky to see from up there.” He held out a hand. She hesitated briefly but then took it.

They made their way to the apartment’s front door, where she grabbed her keys off a hook beside it, locked up and showed him the way to the building’s stairwell.

Four flights later and they walked out onto the rooftop, where Shandi was surprised to find a vegetable garden flourishing in one corner between rows of potted palms that eerily complemented her costume.

“Wow. I had no idea,” she said and laughed softly in that way she had that reminded him of crystal clear bells. “I’ve been spending all that time at the apartment window after work when I could’ve been unwinding up here.

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