victory. She still owed Alec a thousand dollars, and she still had thirty other reindeer to worry about. How was she ever going to afford all that, plus her airplane?
“You okay?”
Zoey glanced up at Alec, still leading Palmer around with a very literal dangling carrot. “A little overwhelmed, that’s all. It’s been a long day.”
“Keep your chin up. Everyone will forget about this in a day or two.” He kept his gaze glued to Palmer.
Zoey wasn’t sure if he was worried about the reindeer bolting, or if he felt as uncomfortable delivering a pep talk as she did to be on the receiving end of it. “Just so we’re clear, you’re officially un-fired.”
He let out a laugh. “You never fired me.”
Hadn’t she? She’d certainly meant to. “Yes, I did.”
“No, you didn’t.” He glowered at her. “I can take this from here. Don’t you have a pedicure to get back to or something?”
How on earth did he know about the pedicure? “I appreciate the concern, but my toes are fine.”
He gave her another look filled with blue-eyed ire. “Are you walking back with us, or will you be arriving via your private plane?”
Just how had he spent his afternoon off? Investigating her? “It’s not like you think. I’m not a spoiled heiress.”
He shrugged. “So you keep saying.” Zoey braced herself for another sarcastic sweetheart. It never came. She was almost disappointed.
She counted to ten before she did something stupid, like blurting out that he was fired again. Because clearly she needed him, as much as it pained her to admit it. By the time she got to five, they were engulfed in a throng of people. Zoey found herself with two television cameras and half a dozen microphones in her face. Everyone wanted a sound bite, something clever and quirky for the evening news. Because this was Alaska, where things like renegade reindeer made the front page—just one of the myriad reasons why she loved Aurora. She blinked against an assault of flashbulbs.
When her vision cleared, Alec and Palmer were nowhere to be seen.
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