Sweet Home Alaska: An Alaskan Hero Novella by Rebecca Thomas

Author:Rebecca Thomas [Thomas, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Trey marched down the hallway of the Salmon Catcher hotel’s third floor. The sound could have been the thunder, but it sounded like it came from inside the hotel. He’d had a state-of-the-art security system installed, and as far as he knew he and Lauren were completely alone. So what could have made that sound?

He’d never imagined Lauren was so vulnerable, so willing to share what she considered her past failures, but she was full of surprises. And he found it endearing.

He had been determined not to let an old infatuation cloud his judgement, but he couldn’t keep his feelings at bay. And now he wondered if the crush really was something in the past, because it felt real to him now.

And those damned high-heeled shoes of hers were so distracting. He’d always been a leg man, and she wore a skirt and heels like no other woman in this town could, or ever would. He really needed to keep his fantasies to himself Lauren was not the type of woman to be interested in a small-town guy like him.

The doors to all the rooms on the third floor were closed except for one at the end of the hall. Room 313. A ladder was tipped over in the center of the room and the window was open. Rain drizzled in, and Trey quickly darted across the room to close and lock it.

One of the construction workers must have left the window open. Wind gusts from the inclement weather likely blew the ladder over.

Tingles crept up his spine. While his belief in the paranormal bordered on nonexistent, he couldn’t describe the sensation in his body. Instantly, he thought of Lauren, alone in room 325. He headed toward the door. A blast of cold air skimmed across his skin, and he made a mental note to talk to the head foreman tomorrow. He didn’t want anything to disrupt his plans for the re-opening. If the heat and air conditioning system was out of whack, he had to know if it was only in this room, the floor, or in the entire building.

He opened room 325 to see Lauren eating a sandwich in one hand and holding her glass of wine in the other. Her eyes lit up when she looked at him. “I’ve been waiting for you Obi-Wan,” she said. “We meet again at last.”

He couldn’t keep the grin from spreading across his face. “How much wine have you had?”

“What caused the crash, Crash?”

“Aren’t you the funny one,” he said. He crouched beside her, noting his plate was full of food again. “How much wine have you had to drink?”

“Oh, enough to make me a little giddy. You’re the one who kept refilling my glass.” She nodded and waved her finger in a chiding motion. “But really, what made the noise?”

“Well, it wasn’t the Death Star, if that’s what you’re wondering.” He sat next to her, rather than on the other side of the blanket.

“Now look who’s being funny?” She bumped her shoulder into his.

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