Monday Morsels: An Accidental Love Affair

AN ACCIDENTAL LOVE AFFAIR

by Davida Samenski

Chapter One

She could see her tombstone now: Here lies Nicole Elizabeth DeLancey—Procrastination was her downfall.

She knew there were things she needed to do; important things, but no matter how much time she had to plan or organize, she always waited until the last minute to get things done, landing her in a worse predicament than when she began.

Here she stood in the middle of JFK International, lost, with the announcement that her flight to Heathrow was boarding blasting over the intercom. Where the hell was gate 36-B? She shook her head in despair, turning in a circle.

This is what you get, she thought. Once again, your ‘oh, I’ll do it later’ attitude is causing you trouble. If you don’t make this flight, you can kiss your writing career goodbye. Dad’s not going to give you any more chances to follow your dreams. Not on his dime.

Nicole didn’t want to do anything with her life but write romance novels. She wanted to write love stories so intense and beautiful they would rank up there with the best of them. A knock-down, drag-out war on the senses, capturing the reader’s attention so deeply, they would think of her characters long after the book was finished, living in the mind the way Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, Jamie and Claire, and Scarlett and Rhett all did. Yes, this was her dream. It was quickly becoming a nightmare.

The second announcement rang over the intercom, a swarm of butterflies fluttering their wings in her stomach. Butterflies, hell, more like a herd of stampeding buffalo. Her pulse started pounding hard, sweat breaking out across her forehead. Was she ever going to find the damn gate?

The powers that be were listening, the crowd’s parting, allowing her to spy the sign that would lead her to her destination. Hmmm, she thought, not too far to go.

Hefting her laptop case to her shoulder, she sprinted down the hall, relieved to see other passengers still filing through at check-in. She wasn’t late at all. From the ruckus behind her, wouldn’t even be the last passenger in line.

“Hold the plane,” someone yelled, as if the airline attendant could hear him over the noise level, which had suddenly increased one thousand percent. It sounded like a swarm of killer bees were heading straight for her.

Do not look, Nicole, she warned herself. You’re on a mission here. What’s happening behind you is not your concern.

Click, click, click. The constant buzz of camera lenses shuttering and refocusing was getting closer, not to mention the hard pounding of someone’s feet running down the corridor. They were coming up on her fast, bright lights flashing, bouncing off the walls in her peripheral vision.

“What the hell?” She stopped dead in her tracks, beginning to turn, but didn’t make it half a rotation.

“Oi, watch out!” the man swore, barreling into her.

Nicole and her assailant collided, stumbling over each other, the speed of his flight carrying them a good five feet before her ankle twisted. They went down, her face slamming into the floor, the laptop case banging her in the back of the head.

“Bloody hell! Are you all right?” the man asked, his accent thick with British crispness.

She lay on the floor, practically French kissing the tile, trying to catch her breath.

It serves you right, her subconscious nagged. You should have gotten here sooner to avoid things like this.


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Hollywood ‘It Boy’ Reece Collins, runs into aspiring author Nicole Delancey in the airport—literally and sparks fly, especially when every tabloid in the world picks up the story.

Heading to London to compile research for her novel, Nicole is bowled over by Reece as they both run to catch their flight. Joining him in first class, they discover an attraction that will carry them through months of romance and heartbreak, especially when his brother steals her manuscript in a bid to further Reece’s career.

Reece is used to being in the camera’s spotlight, but tries to keep his personal life private, which becomes hard for him to do when he falls for Nicole. Will he be able to protect her from the bright lights of his fame or will he step out of the light and be the man they both wish he could be?

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