Jubilee Thornton gazed into the mirror and said to herself, “Stop being such a scaredy-cat.” She thrust a finger at her reflection, which she barely recognized. With the short hair, the makeup, and the Halloween costume, she’d felt like a new woman. A sexy, confident woman.
A woman who could get any man she wanted—except that one she did, in fact, want.
Well, she couldn’t blame the man in question, because whenever she was around Heath DiMarco, she turned shy and awkward. She said stupid things. Sometimes she managed to flirt, but he never flirted back.
Until tonight. At least, she’d thought he’d flirted with her.
“Stop. Being. A. Scaredy. Cat.” She tapped the mirror one last time for good measure.
Jubilee had been scared her whole life. She’d been scared of dying, she’d been scared o
