Kissed My Rival, Hear His Mind novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Seven Hours
Declan opened his hand, and Craig slid down the pillar onto the concrete.
Craig sat there rubbing his collar, with his coat in the oil and his phone drowning beside his shoe.
"Nine o'clock," he said, still grinning. "Wear something nice."
He got up and limped to his car, and drove out past them with the horn bleating once.
Declan stood in the flicker of the fluorescent tube with his empty hands at his sides.
"He's right," he said, quietly. "Godfrey will send it tonight."
"Then we've got till he does."
"Eli."
"My kitchen. Now."
Eli shifted the tube under his good arm.
"You're not writing this alone in a loft with a lamp and a thesaurus."
Declan's eyes came up, wide and grey.
"You said no touching."
"I'm not touching you. I'm hiring you a room."
By eleven, Eli's kitchen held four people and a pot of his mother's tea.
Maggie sat on the counter in her scrubs, eating Cheerios from the box.
Joan had taken a cab from Port Richmond with a bag of pierogi and her reading glasses.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Kissed My Rival, Hear His Mind are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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