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I nodded. “What did you tell them?”
“That until the roads clear and the travel advisory ends, I’m stuck where I am.”
“Horrible place to be stuck.”
“Awful.” She laughed. “Okay, for a guy who was going to Miami for Christmas, no doubt to escape all this cold and snow, you picked Aspen of all places?”
“I didn’t choose Miami.”
“Oh.” She set her drink down after taking a sip. “Well, Aspen has its own perks, I guess.”
“Isolation and time alone being the two best ones.” No chance of Frank showing up unexpectedly to bother me being the highlight.
“And I’m ruining the time alone.”
“I’m enjoying your company. It’s other people I wouldn’t want around.”
“Ah. Family?”
“More like the manager who appointed himself my babysitter and wanted to send me to Miami in the first place.” I leaned back in the chair, going through the apps on my phone. I opened one, keyed in a code, and brought up the lights. I turned the tree on, making the colors morph from one to another.
Jenna smiled, her eyes lighting up as the colors went from one to another to another.
“Tell me about you,” I said, getting comfortable. “I mean, you know who I am, you can google pretty much anything you want to know.”
She mock-gasped. “What do you want to know?”
“Anything, everything.”
She leaned back in the chair. “Give me an idea.”
“What are you really in a rush to get back for? Hot date? Don’t tell me you were meant to go somewhere special over Christmas.”
“Not that exactly…” she trailed off, pushing her phone slightly away. But I caught her glance for notifications. “My brother’s proposing to his girlfriend.”
“In front of an audience?”
“We’re a close family.”
“All right.” I knew I didn’t sound convinced, but some things were kinda personal. And I’d put proposing in thesomething personalcolumn.
“What?”
“I just…I don’t know that I’d do something that personal in front of a group of people. Friends, family even. Just…” I shook my head. I might live half my life on stage, in front of the world, but some things were meant to be just between two people.
“Who knew the big rock star was the marrying kind.”
I lifted my coffee to take a drink. “What do you know about me?”
I was truly curious. After she’d realized who I was, she hadn’t exactly changed her behavior—which I’d totally expected her to do. People tended to change around me. I’d braced myself for it. But with her that had never happened.
She looked at me as if trying to decide on what to say first. “You snore.”
I laughed. “Great, thanks. That’ll go viral.”
“I don’t have a camera in my vehicle other than the dashcam.”
“Oh, good.” I feigned relief.
