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Return to Me
Book: Return to Me Read Online Free
Author: Riley Sinclair
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edged plunging neckline.
         Her red clutch purse and silver hoop earrings completed the look and she bounded down the steps, through the parlor and was out the door before Denmari could ask her any questions.
         "Took you long enough."
         "Let’s go."
         "Curfew?" Hailey asked as they coasted down the hill.
         "Eleven, same as always." She responded checking her makeup once more in the Mustang’s flip down visor.
         "That’s only four hours from now."
         "Then you had better step on it."
         "You got it." Hailey grinned, ever the dare-devil, gunned the engine, and laughed as the car shot forward, headlights cutting a path through the dark night.
     
     

     Chapter Three
     
         They drove to a hole in the wall place just outside of the city. Hailey expertly navigated her pride and joy through the blacktop and into a narrow space at the back of the poorly lit parking lot. Paige twisted in her seat for a better look at the low white brick building. A neon sign in the window boasted an all you can eat buffet and dancing. "Hailey are you sure about this place?"
         "Dinner and dancing?" She shrugged, smoothing her skirt and slinging her purse over one toned, tanned shoulder. "What’s not to be sure about?"
         "It looks a little rough." She hesitated, climbing from the car but clinging to the door.
         "Oh it does not."
         "It’s next to a truck stop."
         "You wanted someplace out of the way and you have to be back home by eleven." Hailey patiently pointed out. "Now are you coming or not?"
         Paige took a deep breath, almost considered telling Hailey to take her back home. After a moment though, she released her hold on the door and reluctantly followed her friend through the dark lot and into the brightly lit diner. One hand came up to shield her eyes as they adjusted to the glare of the overhead fluorescents, her pulse speeding up when several burly men in plaid shirts and hats turned to stare.
         Actually, ogle was more like it, she sighed, unsurprised. She was used to it. Men, be they young or old, never failed to notice Hailey. It was like that everywhere they went. Men would turn and glance with mild interest at Paige for a split second before discarding her to gape at the blonde, wide eyed, pouty lipped girl at her side.
         If Paige were a vain girl, or a jealous one, she might have taken offense at their quick perusal and even faster dismissal of her dark and more toned down beauty. But the truth was, she felt a sense of relief rather than envy. She wasn’t comfortable taking center stage and the short once overs made her uncomfortable. She just wasn’t the social, sexy creature that Hailey seemed to naturally embody.
         She didn’t live dangerously, at least not by choice, and although she wasn’t exactly a wallflower, Paige knew she would never crave attention the way her friend seemed to. And personally she didn’t feel that a group of men decked out in hats with the immortal words ‘Keep on Truckin’ emblazoned across the bills, was necessarily something to envy.
         Paige smothered a giggle as she watched her ultra-tanned friend shamelessly flirt with the rowdy group. Weaving her way through the unusual mix of rough necks and teens, she sought out a booth near the door, slid hastily over the cracked red leather seat and set her purse beside the window before signaling the waitress.
         The place was so crowded that it took the harried looking woman in the apron nearly ten minutes to plunk down a soda in front of Paige, but when it finally came, the drink was icy cold and completely satisfying.
         She checked her watch after she’d finished her second Coke, shocked to find that forty-five minutes had come and gone and she still hadn’t seen Hailey.
         Scanning the crowd, she quickly surmised the reason behind the delay and averted her eyes, embarrassed
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