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Not bothering to disguise his annoyance, Spencer approached Adam and his admiring horde. “Ever heard the phrase ‘look but don’t touch’??
?
He was used to seeing women fawn all over his younger brother. What he wasn’t used to was wanting to rip Adam’s head off his shoulders for daring to include Kelly in his flock of adoring fans.
“It applies here,” Spencer added as Adam’s grin faded.
“Spence, my man, there you are. Wondered if I’d catch you before you hit the friendly skies. Then I hit my own little patch of friendliness and—”
“Forgot all about me?” Spencer clenched his jaw. “Why are you in town anyway?”
“Now there’s a welcome.” Adam dropped his hand and used the other to scratch the back of his neck. “Christ, you haven’t seen me in, what, six months? Thought you’d be happy to see your kid brother.”
“Maybe I would be if you didn’t have your hands all over the merchandise.”
Kelly shot him a dark look but he couldn’t even feel triumphant. All he felt was miserable. How the fuck had he screwed up so royally?
“Merchandise, huh?” Adam’s sharp blue gaze turned thoughtful as he glanced down at Kelly. He was taller than her in her clogs, but barely. “Didn’t see the paid sign on you but I must’ve missed it.”
“Trust me, I’m no one’s merchandise,” Kelly said, leaning closer until her breasts were a hair away from touching Adam’s chest. “So you really played football? That’s so—”
“Dangerous,” Leigh finished, edging aside her tray of peanut butter cookies before Adam could snag one. From the trail of crumbs on his black T-shirt, he’d already had his share.
“I was going to say sexy.” Kelly smiled and shook her hair in a coy manner she’d never used on Spencer. “Desk types really annoy me. I appreciate a man who knows how to get down and dirty.”
Adam chuckled. “No problems with that here, sweetheart.” He glanced back at Leigh. “What about you? You like it dirty too?”
She sniffed as only Leigh could. “If I did, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.”
The sound of Adam’s raucous laughter accompanied Spencer across the store as he walked away. He couldn’t look at Kelly a moment longer.
Now if only he could erase her from his thoughts.
Adam found him in his office a short while later. He’d intended to shove files into his briefcase and head out, but he hadn’t been able to stop staring at the loveseat where Kelly had sat the night before. Sobbing her eyes out because she loved him and she believed he didn’t care.
God, could she have been any more wrong?
The knock at the door yanked him out of his misery. His brother stood on the threshold, his perceptive blue eyes trained on him. “You look like shit, bro.”
“Thanks. You too.” Spencer reached for his briefcase then stopped. It wasn’t his brother’s fault that he was such a fucking jerk. “Look, about before.”
“I only have one question.” Adam dropped into the chair on the opposite side of the desk. “Are you really dumb enough to let Kelly go?”
“I…what?”
“You heard me.”
“She didn’t actually tell you—”
“Sure she did. Once we’d gotten past the niceties, we fell right into conversation. She said she was your former boinkee.”
“Former boinkee,” Spencer repeated, again reaching for his briefcase. He needed to hold on to something. “Why can I hear her saying exactly that?”
“She’s a plain-speaking girl. I don’t really see her as your type, but hell, she is pretty hot.”
Spencer sat, but only because he was suddenly too exhausted to stand. “If she were any more my type I’d be—”
Dead.
