Love Me at Midnight by Linda Morris

Author:Linda Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance; category, Lovestruck, NYE, New Year's Eve, winter, holiday, bundle, box set, collection, romantic comedy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

RJ responded with a grin that mirrored hers. “I’m glad to hear it. But don’t you think you ought to give your friends a call to let them know?”

“Oh. Yeah, of course. But my phone’s dead. Can I borrow yours?” Embarrassingly enough, he’d bewitched her to the point that she’d forgotten all about the event, Dr. Dunne, Carolyn, and even Ryan Langford, whose rear end she was supposed to be kissing right now.

He returned in a moment with a phone, a high-end model that probably cost way more than hers. His cell phone wallpaper was an abstract artwork with lots of colorful circles and blots—Kandinsky, maybe, or Miro? She always got those two confused. She gave him points for not having a picture of some scantily-clad woman thrusting her boobs at the camera, like Steve had on his phone. Tacky. Nude-woman wallpapers were the cell phone equivalent of silver naked-lady mud flaps, in her opinion. She dialed Carolyn’s number.

“Hey, Carolyn. It’s me.”

“Kayla! Where are you? Are you all right? Whose phone are you calling from? I almost didn’t answer because the read-out just said ‘Private caller.’”

“The guy who gave me a ride loaned me his phone because mine’s dead. I’m fine. He brought me to his house because of the snow emergency. We’re about ten miles from the estate. I’ll have to get my car towed in the morning. It looks like I’m not going to make the event,” she said, in what she hoped was a suitably convincing tone of regret.

“No big deal. Langford’s not here either. He just called his housekeeper and said the roads were all closed and he wasn’t going to make it. I guess he’s going to find a hotel or something. Isn’t that a trip? So we’re all spending the night and we’ll head home once the roads are plowed. Luckily this house is so ginormous, it’s got plenty of room for everybody.”

“That’s a relief. Dr. Dunne can’t get too mad at me if the event’s host didn’t even show, right?”

“Yeah, I think you’re off the hook. He’s too busy mourning his opportunity to kiss ass to be mad at you.”

“Good!” Kayla said, watching RJ go to the fireplace to give it a couple of jabs with the poker.

“Meanwhile, this place is amazing! You wouldn’t believe this house. And the food…oh. My. God. It sucks being stranded on New Year’s Eve, but if you have to be snowbound, I can’t imagine a better place to do it.”

“I can,” Kayla said. Oops. So much for her convincing show of regret about getting stuck and missing the event. Her words had practically dripped with triumph. Hot, swooning, I might-possibly-get-lucky triumph.

“He’s that hot, huh?” A note of envy crept into Carolyn’s voice.

“Yes.” She watched as RJ knelt and added another log to the fire. He must have guessed she was talking about him, because he sent her a wink that made the back of her neck tingle.

“This is perfect! I’ve been telling you for months now that you need a hot, dirty fling.

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