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Palmer
It takes all my willpower to leave the hotel room with Hudson still there and even more when I get in the car with Harper not to tell her everything. Good thing Adley is in the back seat.
“Mommy!” she says in a tired voice.
I turn to sign to her while I speak outloud. Hey, sweetie. Did you have fun with Harper?
With a sleepy smile, she raises her hands to show me her painted nails. “Look.”
Very pretty.
“Buckle up,” Harper says to me.
I put on my seat belt, and she accelerates a little too fast for my liking. Especially with my daughter in the back.
“So?” She looks in the rearview mirror at Adley.
I shrug. “So nothing.”
“Don’t you dare hide details. I told you?—”
“Harp, there’s a three-year-old in the back.”
“She’s already half asleep. We stayed up a little past her bedtime last night.”
“How late?” I frown.
The sheepish grin on her face tells me all I need to know. “I’m not going to stop asking. You sleep with one of the hottest guys in snowboarding, and you’re not going to tell me about it? Although Dax Campbell is more my type.”
I shake my head at her love of snowboarders. “He’s married to that other medalist, Demi Harrison, isn’t he?”
“Oh, I can do what she did.” Harper waves it off.
“You’re a wedding planner, not a skier,” I inform her in case she forgot how different her job is than going seventy miles per hour downhill.
“Dealing with bridezillas is ten times harder and more dangerous, just in a different way. She might fall and die, and I might get shanked.”
Laugher spills out of me. “They have kids.”
“Ask Adley, I’d make an excellent stepmom.” She stops at a light and smiles at me.
“You have an excuse for everything.” I glance back and see Adley’s cheek resting along the one side of the car seat. She’s out.
“Hey.” Harper smacks my leg to grab my attention.
“You don’t have to hit me.”
“Did you read Buzz Wheel?” She ignores my comment.
I nibble my cheek and look out the window. “No.” I hate lying. She presses on the gas when the light turns green, and I fly back into the seat. “Jeez, Harp.”
“Hudson was there last night too.”
Okay, I can either be straight or continue to lie through my teeth.
“I have to tell you something,” I relent—mostly because what happened last night is a lot, and I need to download. And Harper, although she loves gossip, has never outed any of my secrets. She knew I was pregnant before I arrived in Lake Starlight and told no one.
“That Hudson came into the restaurant and confessed his undying love for you, then he got a hotel room, and the two of you had wild sex all night?” She smiles smugly for a moment before returning her attention to the road.
