Not Quite Married (26 page)

Never forget and definitely not regret.

“Will you walk me to my car?” she asked.

“Of course.” Once he’d righted himself and brushed off the dirt from his jacket, they were walking arm in arm back to the parking lot.

“I’m sorry about your coat,” she said.

“Don’t give it a second thought. In fact, I might just have it framed and hang it on my wall to remember tonight.”

The temperature had dropped a good ten degrees, and by the time they made it back around to the lot, most of the cars were gone. The courtesy golf carts and their drivers were nowhere to be found. It was
that
late.

As she fumbled in her purse for her keys, she checked her phone for the time.

Three forty-five in the morning.

Irrational panic ceased her. She should’ve been home hours ago.

She didn’t want to ruin everything with awkward goodbyes, but she had to get out of there.

“Brodie the Brit,” she said. They were standing maybe five inches apart. “This has been such a wonderful evening. Look, if you’re ever in Chicago...”

She realized how that sounded,
a shot of needy with a chaser of desperate
.

“Goodbye, Brodie.”

She kissed him one last time before she drove off.

When she did, she forced herself to not watch his fading image in her rearview mirror. Or to think about how tonight was not only her first one-night stand, it was also probably the best sex she’d ever had in her life.

The faster she drove, the louder doubt rattled behind her like a string of tin cans tied to a wedding car.

She was never going to see him again. She didn’t even know his last name.

It was best that way.

Wasn’t it?

Copyright © 2015 by Harlequin Books S.A.

ISBN: 978-1-474-00176-2

NOT QUITE MARRIED

© 2015 Christine Rimmer

Published in Great Britain 2015
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