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WILLIAM: You’re acting like sharing a bed with me would be hell on earth.
Me? Sharing a bed with that hot piece of arse? Hell on Earth?
Pretty much, yeah.
ME: I’ve never shared a bed with a stranger before. Forgive me.
WILLIAM: I’m not a stranger. Not a total one, anyway.
ME: Oh, God. I did not think this through.
WILLIAM: Relax. What time does your flight land?
I quickly checked my email for my flight itinerary and told him.
WILLIAM: Okay. They might not be here when I leave to get you, so we’ll find out when we get there.
ME: This involves more anxiety than I signed up for.
WILLIAM: What? Being a plus one for a practical stranger in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people was your limit?
ME: Little over it, to be honest.
WILLIAM: Don’t worry. It’ll be fine.
ME: That’s what someone says when it’s not fine.
WILLIAM: You really don’t have to come, you know. You can have a family emergency.
ME: No. I can’t subject you to the horror of an arranged date and subsequent marriage you clearly won’t be able to refuse.
WILLIAM: You have such faith in me.
ME: I have no faith in you. I barely know you.
WILLIAM: That’s fair.
I snorted.
God, I really didn’t. I barely knew him. This whole situation was utterly bonkers.
I was going to be a plus one for a practical stranger, and there was a very real possibility I’d have to share a bed with him.
What was I thinking?
I wasn’t. I wasn’t thinking. That was the only explanation for this whole thing. I’d lost my damn mind.
And given that I still wasn’t even thinking about not going, my mind wasn’t returning anytime soon.
***
It was fucking freezing.
I’d thought it the second I’d walked off the plane, I’d thought it as I’d shuffled through the airport to baggage claim, and I thought it as I hauled my suitcase off the conveyor belt and headed towards the exit doors.
It. Was. Freezing.
I wasn’t sure I’d packed enough for how cold it was. It was also snowy, and at least I’d thought ahead and worn my leather boots that could hack the snow and inevitable yucky grey slush that came with it.
