Montana Secret Santa (Love at the Chocolate Shop Book 3) by Debra Salonen

Author:Debra Salonen [Salonen, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2016-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“A date,” Krista murmured glancing from the pile of clothes on her bed—tried on and rejected over the past hour—to the image in the full-length mirror on the back of her bedroom door. “Just a date.”

She turned sideways to view her profile.

Too dressy?

Not for the Graff.

She’d been there several times and the place oozed robber baron wealth and prestige. But was her long skirt too much for the stroll?

She gathered two fistfuls of the soft, scrunchable material to look at her feet. Same heels—returned that morning from the repair shop—that she’d been wearing the day they met. She kicked them off, sending them flying in the general direction of the closet and grabbed her smart-but-stylish black, mid-calf lace-up boots with a practical heel, plush lining, and a winter tread.

Once back on her feet, she shook out her skirt and looked at her reflection. She’d bought the off-the-shoulder black top for its dramatic touches of red and gold. She also liked the way the stretchy material clung to her body. While not a traditional holiday print, it matched the orange-red color of her ankle-length peasant skirt. All that had been missing to give it a gypsy vibe was the tooled leather belt and hand-worked silver and turquoise buckle slung low on her hips.

She fingered the simple onyx choker, debating on something more dramatic. “Oh, stop. This is dinner and a stroll. Not a damn thing more,” she told the woman staring back at her.

And to make sure she wasn’t tempted to bring her date home, she turned off the light and closed the door, leaving the mess on the bed right where it was.

She touched up her lipstick in the mirror in the powder room after swishing and spitting a bit of mouthwash. A pregame habit she’d acquired in New York while working for the same company that royally screwed Amanda.

She walked into the living room, reflecting on the choices that brought her to Montana. Seeing the way the corporate big boys treated someone as talented, hardworking, and well-connected as Amanda had been a slap upside the head. She’d already been second-guessing her employment choices when Amanda’s invitation to join her self-employment adventure in Montana arrived. Not to mention the residual bad taste in her mouth from her breakup with Thomas.

For the past year and a half, Krista had made Blue Sky her main focus. Her personal life had been on the back burner. Amanda called her picky but, in truth, Krista didn’t trust her date radar, anymore. She’d gone on a couple of dates but hadn’t felt a desire to follow-up either time. A fact that made what she felt for Jonah all the more baffling. At least the guys she’d gone out with were sticking around—not short-timers returning to their old lives a month or two down the road.

Maybe loneliness was to blame for the connection she felt toward Jonah. Maybe she was grasping at a handy—compelling—diversion to cushion the inevitable disappointment that was bound to happen when... if.

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