Page 146 of Fostering Chemistry
“Wow, that’s great,” Tori said.
Hailey nodded, but she looked like she was holding something back. Finally, she blurted it out. “That is great, but that’s not what Tori meant when she asked if Team Mia was going to continue.”
Tori grinned. “Yeah, I kind of meant some of your other team activities.”
“Oh.” Yep, blushing again. “Things are going… well. We’re trying not to get ahead of ourselves.” Or maybe that was just what I kept telling myself. It still all seemed almost too good to be true. I’d never had this healthy and fulfilling a relationship with one man, let alone three.
“Are you all going to stay at the house over the break?” Hailey asked.
“Yes. Well, I’m going to go with Aaron to a holiday party, but yes, for the most part.” The heat from my cheeks now rivaled the heat from the chai latte. “Jenna will be with her boyfriend, and Evan invited Raymond to his parent’s house for Christmas.”
Tori gave me a high five. “So in other words, you four get to have Thanksgiving Break Part Two.”
“Hopefully.” Part One had been the most amazing week of my life. “And they told me to keep a couple of days at the end of the month free. I think they’re planning a surprise for New Year’sEve.” That they’d do that filled me with both wonder and love. Plus, they were pretty damn good at surprises.
“I think my guys are, too,” Hailey said. Then we both looked at Tori.
“We haven’t planned that far ahead,” Tori said. “We’ve just barely made it through final exams! Besides, we share a house in the middle of nowhere, so we don’t need to travel somewhere else when we want to have loud, kinky fun.”
My cheeks heated. “I’m not sure that’s the purpose of keeping those days clear,” I began.
“Bet you twenty bucks it is.” The smile Tori gave me showed that she was both serious about that and happy for me at the same time.
My phone buzzed, and I waited to check until after Hailey and Tori had filled me in on what the next few weeks would entail for them.
When I looked, it was a message from Zoe. She’d sent it a few hours ago, but she was headed up that resort high in the mountains today, she might not have had much reception.
“Sorry,” I said, not wanting to be rude. “It’s from my boss.”
“First you’re planning to do extra homework over the break and now you’re getting messages from your boss on your day off?” Tori teased.
“Yeah. Except she’s kind of becoming a friend, too.”
“I thought she was hard on you,” Hailey said.
“She was, but she’s harder on herself.” I scanned her message. “Anyway, she’s on her way to that ski resort. You said Grant’s been there before, right Hailey?”
“Yes. He says it’s extremely ritzy, and coming from a guy raised with that kind of wealth, that was saying something.”
I frowned. I hoped that Zoe would get a chance to show what she could do and not just be treated like lowly staff. An attachment appeared under her message, loading slowly.
“Who’s the hottie?” Tori asked after I enlarged a picture.
“The culinary student she’s riding up with. He’s doing an internship there too.” I closed the picture, and I re-read her message. “She said he’s a grumpy bastard and if he kidnaps her, I should show that picture to the police.” Which I hoped was a joke.
“Let me see it again,” Tori said.
I opened the attachment again. It was of a good-looking guy with dark hair, but it was a bit hard to see. His face was partially turned away, as if Zoe had wanted to snap the picture without him knowing.
Tori stared at the screen for a long moment.
“Don’t you have enough handsome men at your disposal?” I teased.
“Look at this.” She shoved my phone toward Hailey.
And there was another long pause as Hailey squinted at the picture. Then her jaw dropped.
“It is, right?” Tori asked.
