All Chapters of One Night Mistake: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

It had been five days since Sebastian Phillips’ party, and Taliana still hadn’t found the ring.She’d gone back to both the hotel and the club where the party had been held, hoping someone from the management had found it and was keeping it safe, but no one had seen or heard anything.By then she was beating herself up for having been so careless that night, wanting nothing more than to turn back time and make it so she’d never gone to the party. The calls from her mother weren’t helping much either, since all Andrea had to say was how upset she was with Taliana for losing such a priceless item. Luckily, she hadn’t disowned Taliana yet, but if that thing didn’t turn up in the next week or so, Taliana was pretty sure her name was going to be erased from the Colton family tree.“I hate my life.”The boy stretched out on the chaise to Taliana’s left turned his head to shoot her a pitiless look. “Would you quit it with the dramatics?” Jude sighed, obviously tired of her bitching. “Really,

* * *There were plenty of ways to cure a hangover, and Sebastian was familiar with a few of them. However, if one thing was for sure, none of them included an early morning wake-up call.Someone was pounding on the door of his hotel room, and he was none too pleased about it. Between his twisting stomach and something stinging painfully on his cheek, he was in no mood to greet the day or whoever was at the door. Tempted as he was to simply roll over in the king-sized bed and fall back asleep, he dragged himself up, slipped on a pair of boxers, and pulled open the door, staring at his guest with bleary eyes.“Rise and shine, princess,” Michael greeted, flashing him an exhausted grin before his expression faded into one of confusion. “What the hell happened to your face?”Sebastian raised a hand to his cheek and felt the edges of the shallow cut. “Rough night,” he said, peering down at the tray covered by a cloche in Michael’s hands. “What’ve you got in there?”“Breakfast.” Michael sho

“Taliana Colton-Avilla, where in the world have you been?”Cringing at the sheer volume of her father’s voice, Taliana cracked open an eye and took in the sight in front of her. Charles was standing hands on hips a few feet away, his mouth set in a hard line. In an attempt to pacify the situation, Taliana tried her best to pull an innocent smile onto her lips.“Hi, Daddy.”If the twins could get out of trouble by batting their eyelashes and sucking up to daddy dearest, maybe she could do the same.“Don’t you ‘hi, Daddy’ me, Taliana,” he snapped. “Where have you been? Katherine and I have been worried sick about you!”Shit. It didn’t look like playing darling daughter was going to get her out of this one. “I’ve uh- I was- I went-” She trailed off, unable to come up with a valid excuse. With the way he was glaring and clenching his jaw, Taliana was seconds from blurting the truth, but she was saved when someone else answered for her.“She was at Jude’s house,” Vanessa said as she popped

Vanessa took a hesitant step forward, edging around a pile of t-shirts. “When did you last have it?”Taliana wracked her brain for an answer. “Um, at the party,” she said, trying to think back. “I had it when we got there, and I’m pretty sure I had it when I left with that guy, so it must be-““Wait, wait, wait,” Marissa interrupted, shaking her head as she shot Taliana a confused look. “What guy?”Taliana grimaced and ran a sweaty palm over her pajama pants. “I went back to some guy’s hotel room last night,” she confessed, knowing there was no way she would find the ring if she didn’t fill them in completely. “I woke up this morning and got out of there as fast as I could.”Marissa gasped and slapped a hand over her mouth while Vanessa simply raised an eyebrow.“Did you sleep with him?” Vanessa questioned.“Yeah,” Taliana admitted, heat creeping into her cheeks as vague memories from last night finally came flooding back. “But that’s not important!” she exclaimed as she continued to

Then again, that bar was kind of hard to ignore.Wanting to blend in with all the others who had drinks in their hands, Taliana made her way through the crowd toward the bar on the other side of the colossal room. Some clever moves got her to the center of the room in no time, but from there she lost sight of her target. She cursed under her breath as she moved farther into the writhing mass of people, which eventually spat her out none too gracefully a few moments later. She was almost to it when a hard shove to the back had her stumbling forward, and she fell into the arms of some poor unsuspecting stranger.Groaning, Taliana lifted her head to apologize, but the words died in her throat when she met the blue eyes of her savior.“It’s you,” she gasped as she stared up into the face of the dark-haired Adonis she’d slept with less than a week ago. “Holy? shit .”Staring at her with wide eyes and a slack jaw, he looked just as shocked as Taliana felt. She wasn’t sure how long they’d be