My Cover Model (A Love Like That #1) - R.L. Kenderson Page 0,12

We weren’t on a date. Plus, I had a healthy appreciation for food. Perhaps a little too healthy at times, but I was starving.

“Are you two not going to the dinner tonight?” Travis asked.

“No, we’re going. I’m just really hungry.”

We were almost finished eating when I got a message from my editor about a couple of mistakes I needed to fix in my latest book. Normally, I would wait to clean up the errors until I got back home, but I had a release coming up in less than a month, and my computer was upstairs. I felt like it wasn’t something that should wait when I could do it now.

“I have to go and take care of something in the room,” I told Harper. “It shouldn’t take me too long. Do you want me to come back here and find you?”

“Oh, well…” She looked at Angela and Travis. “How long are you staying?”

Angela sighed. “Until dinner tonight. We had to check out of our rooms already.”

Harper and I both winced.

“Are you driving back tonight?”

“Yeah,” Angela said. “I have to get back for my kids. We’ll drive back tonight, and then I’ll fly home tomorrow before my husband goes to work on Monday.”

“Ouch,” I commented. “That’s a short trip.”

“I know. And, after getting here late last night, I was actually thinking of taking a nap in the car before tonight’s dinner.” Angela laughed.

“I don’t know why. You know I’ll do most of the driving,” Travis said.

Harper and I exchanged looks. I felt bad that they had to hang out in the bar area. We had over two hours to go before dinner.

“Why don’t you come and hang out in our room? We have Netflix hooked up. We could watch a movie and rest. If you want to nap, Angela, you can,” Harper offered.

“We will totally take you up on that,” Angela said.

“Yeah, thanks,” Travis said. “It beats sitting here for two hours.”

“Okay, well, I’m going to go up now. I’ll see you all in a few.”

“Later,” Harper said.

I took off for our hotel room. Once inside, I did a quick sweep. The maids had come and cleaned up our dirty towels and made the beds. And, thankfully, we didn’t have unmentionables lying around.

I grabbed my computer and sat on my bed. I had picked the one closest to the window and the heater since I got cold at night. I waited for my computer to connect to the hotel’s Wi-Fi, and as it did that, I turned on the TV and started up Netflix.

I pulled up my e-mail and my latest manuscript. I fixed the few things I needed to and sent it off to my editor again.

I set my computer down on the nightstand between the beds and lay down just as Harper, Travis, and Angela walked in.

“I’ll be right out,” Harper said and walked into the bathroom.

“Make yourselves comfortable.” I waved my hand across the room in a welcome gesture. “Sit. Lie down.” I pointed to myself with two hands. “As you can see, I already am.”

I hoped Harper wouldn’t mind if the two of them sat or lay on her bed, but technically, she was the one who had invited them up.

Travis walked over and grabbed the remote, and then he jumped over me to land on the open spot next to me. “What are we watching?” he said as he put an arm behind his head.

Angela sat on the outside of Harper’s bed. “He always has to play couch commando. I never get the remote when we hang out together.”

Travis laughed. “I suppose, technically, it’s bed commando,” he said as he flipped through the choices and landed on the latest Thor movie.

I scanned his body, which was so close to mine. Yeah, I’d like to play a whole different kind of bed commando with you, Travis.

When I get home, I am making a date with my vibrator.

Nine

Sydney

Surprisingly, I got into the movie and forgot that a handsome model was lying on the same bed as me. So much so that I even dozed for a bit myself.

“Psst.”

I looked up from the TV to Harper. “What?” I whispered.

Travis and Angela had both fallen asleep, and I didn’t want to wake them since they had a long drive ahead of them.

“You should totally take a picture,” she said so low that I had to read her lips to catch everything she was saying.

I wrinkled my nose. “What?”

“Take a picture. You know…” She held her hand above her, leaned