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I nodded, giving her a small smile before I slipped out the door.
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adam
take it back now, y’all:
Resolutions
“Tell me your name.”
She blinked at me. “This again?”
“I gotta call you somethin’,” I said as she bit her lip, drawing my eyes in that direction. But when those lips didn’t form words, I took a spark of inspiration from their color. Maybe a nickname would bug her enough to change her mind. She seemed practical enough for that. “Fine. Don’t tell me. I’ll just call you Red.”
“Fine. Then I’ll call you…Blue.”
A surprised laugh rumbled out of me as I shook my head. “Blue? Why blue?”
“No reason.”
I hummed. Something about the way she swayed from side to side and shrugged her shoulders had me thinking there was, in fact, a reason… but I’d figure it out eventually.
“So,Red,tell me more about you,” I said.
Her eyes went wide, and I chuckled. I wasn’t as much of a ladies’ man as my youngest brother, but even I knew it wasn’t smooth.
But I couldn’t help it. The second I’d seen this woman, it was almost as if my brain had lost control of my feet and I headed her way. And then, once I’d gotten there, and she’d looked up at me with the kind of eyes these singer/songwriters made all their money singing about, I was a goner.
Me—the guy who spent his whole life doing what made sense… losing all track of logic over a mysterious brunette in a mask and gown that belonged in a princess movie?
Not to mention the fact that it was a woman whose real name I still didn’t know, even though we’d been wandering around outside for an hour now. No wonder I’d asked her to tell me more about herself in the least charming way possible. She’d scrambled my brains and served them with toast.
Red cleared her throat. “Um, hmm. Well, I love what I do. I’m?—”
“Whoa, whoa,” I said, holding up a hand as I shot her a teasing grin. “That’s not what I asked.”
She huffed, crossing her arms. “What?”
“I want you to tell me aboutyou.” I was a little rusty, but that should’ve been obvious, right? I didn’t wanna know what she did for a living. I wanted to more about what made her…her.
Besides, I’d already figured out that she in charge of this circus Laney called a party, so she must be the manager my brother had told me about. Everett had recently rambled about his ex landing a rockstar of a manager, shooting her singing career to new heights.
You know, in between grumbles about Laney’s new songs not being her style or that her costumes probably drove her nuts with all that glitter.
Poor Everett wouldn’t downright admit he was heartbroken, but he was. Which was why I hoped Laney’s little sister, Dakota, never told him I’d come with her tonight. Brothers or not, he’d step over my dead body to get to Laney, and he wouldn’t take kindly to me being here when he couldn’t be.
Then again, now that I’d met the lady in red whose masquerade games—as well as that dress—might be the death of me, he was bound to find out. Maybe when I brought her home and told my family she’d taken my breath away from minute one.
Was that a little much?
Probably.
But something told me everything would change thanks to this night… one way or another.
“I was tryin’ tell you about myself,” she said with a light laugh that hit me straight in the chest.
“Nah, you were tryin’ to tell me what youdo,” I countered. “For a job, right?”
