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“Ah, yeah Eve—infor everyone of everyone else’s life since she cahty-seven”

Her lips twitched “She likes to talk about you Can you blame her? Her brother’s a star!”

“Lotta goodon his feet If he didn’t get inside the house soon, he’d be in danger of a few vital parts freezing and then what kind of star would he be?

Lacey studied hi about her, froreen and red toenails to the soft blond hair was real and touchable Not like the girls in Hollywood he nor to say to her

Mark Delaney lost for words? Doubly pathetic Shoulders hunched, he shoved his hands deeper into his pockets “I didn’t expect you to be here, Lacey I thought you’d moved”

“Well, lucky for you, I a to reveal the dier It was blessedly bare

“Well then, I guess I am lucky”

Rubbing the bare skin on her arms, she looked past him “You walked here? In this weather?”

“No, I just left Eve at ho Christmas with his parents” He pointed at the road behind him “I was on my way to California, but didn’t make it very far Sports cars and snow don’t et a tow truck to pullyour et me”

“Oh, well, come on in” She opened the door all the way “You ”

“A little bit, yeah” He stepped inside and blew on his closed fists, hoping to return so to them before next year rolled around “Are your parents asleep already?”

She closed the door and leaned against it “They’re not here, actually They decided to spend their holiday in the Caribbean I’ for them”

His s behind her ear His fingers twitched with the need to touch her hair To see if it felt as silky as he re out on the urge to pull her into his arms No one to stop him but himself He was screwed “So you’re … alone?”

“Yeah” Her cheeks turned pink, and her hand tightened on the doorknob “All alone on Christmas Pretty pathetic, huh?”

“You?” He shook his head “I’ht there with you”

She looked up at him in surprise, but lowered her chin “I don’t think anyone in their right mind would call you pathetic”

“You’d be surprised”

She walked past hiazine on her coffee table “People Magazine calls you the ible bachelor in Hollywood—for the second year in a row We all know that ue with them”

“That doesn’t count” He snorted “They only say those things about me because they don’t know the real me”

She rolled her eyes “Yeah, well, I used to know you Does that count?”