It Happened at Christmas by Debbie Mason

Author:Debbie Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Contemporary Women, Fiction / Romance / Erotica
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

As Gage pulled up to the entrance of the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver, a wave of anxiety hit Skye. Her cell phone vibrating on the seat beside her didn’t help. She ignored it like she had the last eight times. She didn’t have to look to know it was Ethan’s mother. Skye had hung up on her while trying on clothes at Sophia Dane’s high-end ladies’ clothing store, Naughty and Nice. Liz had been trying to reach her ever since.

Claudia had told Liz that Skye was planning to attend the debate, and Ethan’s mother wanted to make sure that didn’t happen. No surprise there. But what she’d said next had been. She’d intimated that Ethan didn’t want Skye there, either, and it wasn’t only because of her blood pressure. He was worried what she’d say if the reporters got ahold of her, but he was too tenderhearted to tell her so himself.

Which was probably why Skye’s stomach was reacting like she’d gone skydiving without a parachute. Maddie, who sat next to her in the back of the Suburban, picked up the phone. “It’s Liz again. You should let her know you’re here.”

“Why? That’d just give her time to warn security to throw me out.”

“Even if she did, they wouldn’t recognize you. I didn’t.” Maddie unbuckled her seat belt and gave Skye a once-over. “I still can’t believe you let Hailey and Holly give you a makeover after I warned you not to.”

Skye touched her now poker-straight hair. “I thought they did a pretty good job.” Twins Hailey and Holly owned the Rocky Mountain Diner. They were Christmas’s self-appointed beauty experts and had arrived at Sophia’s once word got out Skye wanted a makeover.

“If you were going for classy and conservative, they did. You look like a blonde version of Claudia.”

“You hate it.”

“No, you look gorgeous. It’s just that you don’t look like… you.”

Skye glanced at the cropped faux-leather camel jacket she wore over the camel dress paired with brown pleather boots. She didn’t feel like herself. But that had been the whole point of the makeover. In the unlikely event that Jimmy the Knife tuned in to the Colorado news, Skye didn’t want him to recognize her. Vivi hadn’t been happy she planned to attend the debate, but had reluctantly agreed that it should be okay when Skye sent her a selfie.

Gage stopped in front of the entrance and turned, pointing a finger at Skye. “You behave in there.”

“Why does everyone keep telling me that? I’ve been in Christmas for over four months, and I haven’t done anything…” She probably should’ve stopped while she was ahead. There’d been that little incident back in June when she’d wound up in jail for breaking and entering, but the charges had been dropped. Besides, she’d been helping out Grace. “I’m here to support my husband. And whether you agree with me or not, he needs me. In the last two weeks, you can’t open a paper or turn on the television without seeing Bob Bennett and his wife with their perfect little mini mes.

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