NOAH
"Noah?"
The voice behind me as I stood under the portico at the hotel was hesitant but oddly familiar. I turned around to see a drop-dead gorgeous total babe approaching me from the direction of the lobby.
"Uh . . . Alison?" I croaked like a boy going through adolescence. "Hey. Um, wow. You look . . ." I gave a little cough to try to get my voice back under control. "Amazing."
Her cheeks flushed a very pretty pink. "Thank you. You don't look bad yourself. Actually, if I'm going for brutal honesty, you look a hell of a lot better than you did the last time I saw you."
I grimaced. "Not hard to do. I was pretty wrecked that day."
"Yeah, I know." She glanced around us. "So you're staying here, too?"
"There wasn't a lot of choice. Emma said all of the out of town guests who wer
