All Chapters of Borrowing Amor: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Katie stared at the two black trash bags sitting in front of her apartment door. Her heart sank. Not again. She’d been evicted before, but not in the middle of a Colorado winter. Even without paying her gas bill she had been warmer than what the streets could offer her. With a resolute step, Katie approached the apartment manager's door further down the hall. At the last second, she hesitated, then gave two short raps."Come in," a muffled voice called.Katie pushed the door open and found Scarlett in the living room, bent over in the position of Downward Dog. A dangerously thin woman demonstrated the yoga pose on the TV behind her. Scarlett glanced at Katie, her brows crinkling, as if she had be

Katie watched as the passing landscape transitioned from white fields and snow-capped mountains to desert and dry, flat plains. She had never been this far out west before, and she wasn’t sure she liked it. It was so dead and void of life. Then again, maybe she would fit in just fine.Her gas light blinked on and Katie cursed. She had ten dollars in her pocket, but that wouldn’t get her far. Normally she would ‘borrow’ a credit card from someone, but things were different now. She didn’t have anyone covering her tracks like she had in Colorado. If she was going to stay under Teddy’s radar she had to be more careful, and that meant no more ‘borrowing.’Crap. How was she going to survive?

Katie snuggled deeper into the plush hotel bed, never wanting to leave. She still had a couple hours until checkout, so she wasn’t in a big hurry, though she did want to take advantage of their free breakfast. When was the last time she’d slept on a bed? Now that she thought about it, what had Scarlett been able to sell from Katie’s apartment? It wasn’t like she’d owned a TV or nice dishes or anything.She eyed the two black bags sitting in the corner of the room. Sam and CJ had been nice enough to help her clean out her car before taking her to the hotel, and CJ had even offered to buy the car for parts, in addition to not charging her for the tow. Katie couldn’t stop thinking about the two hundred dollars that sat in her back pocket. Any thief worth their salt could grab that and be gone without her realizing they ha

Katie froze. Had she really just accepted a job with no idea what it entailed? She would be paid twice as much as the employee who’d quit, but she had no idea how much they had been getting paid in the first place. And to top it all off, her plan to keep a low profile had just got her thrown into the lion’s den. Katie had known that fraternizing with a news anchor would lead to trouble—but fraternizing with the mayor? She might as well call Teddy with her GPS coordinates.With a quick glance back at Sam, who avoided her gaze, she followed Zoe outside. “I don’t know if this is the best idea,” she said, struggling to keep up with Zoe’s power walk. “Sam—I mean the mayor—has paid for my hotel through tomorrow, and I’ve been thinking this may be a good time for me to get a bus ticket and contin

Katie’s two black garbage bags lay on the ground next to her feet. She stood in front of Zoe’s pink two-story house, complete with black and pink polka-dotted shutters. Katie knew she should come up with something nice to say about the house, like how bright and cheerful it was, but she couldn’t quite get the words to come out. “Your place has a lot of character,” she finally managed.Zoe laughed. “I know, it’s a little much. But it’s my happy place.”“I can’t thank you enough,” Katie said. “You’re a real lifesaver. This week has been insane, and I don’t know what I would have done without you and the mayor.&rdquo