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DEVIN
“And Istillcan’t believe you didn’t get eliminated in Stockholm,” laughed Reese. He raised his bottle, toasting it her way. “That was one of hell of a comeback.”
If Brooke blushed, it didn’t show. She was sitting cross-legged on the floor, drinking our beer. Enjoying all the reminiscing we’d been doing for the better part of the last hour, while I stole what I hoped were surreptitious glances at the smooth skin of her fantastic legs.
“It was a footrace between three other guys and you,” said Hayden. “From three other teams.”
“And I ran them all down,” she said proudly.
“Well that one guy Reggie had a sprained ankle,” I chuckled. “Remember? From that spill he took on the hotel staircase, the night before?”
“So what?” she challenged. “I still ran him down.”
She had the most incredible ice-blue eyes. They were so gorgeous, so vibrant, they made her gaze almost intimidating.
“Besides, I had to beat allthreeof them or we were out,” she said. “And that would’ve especially sucked, because it was only day six.”
Brooke finished her bottle, then turned it sideways and rolled it into the little pile we were making. Before it was even finished moving, Hayden was already opening another one and sliding it her way.
“I still can’t believe you let those assholes win the whole thing,” she said, shifting those beautiful eyes on me.
“What, Double Trouble?”
“Yeah,” she sneered in disgust at the team’s name. “I still don’t understand how those two sets of twins ended up splitting a million dollars. They weren’t that sharp. And not of them had an athletic bone in their body.”
“They flew under the radar most of the race,” said Hayden. “In the end they got lucky.”
“In theend?”laughed Reese. “They were lucky the entire damed race! Every time they guessed at something it was somehow correct. Every blind turn they made just so happened to be the right one.”
“He’s right,” I said, broadening my grin. “The twins made stupid decisions and when it came to challenges they were mediocre at best. But they hadluck. They fell ass-backwards into surviving every leg.”
“Besides,” said Hayden, pointing her way. “You girls were the ones who came in second. If anyone let them win it wasyou.”
“Bullshit,” she said again. “There’s only one reason they came in first, and you know damned well what it was…”
I winced, knowing what was coming next. I was hoping she might spare us…
“It was all because of the Million Dollar Meltdown.”
Or maybe not.
All three of us went silent, as we usually did when the subject came up. We’d been parked right in front of the Eiffel Tower, just outside the final checkpoint. All we had to do was get out of the taxi and sprint about fifty yards. Hell, we could’ve walked across the finish line…
“What the hell happened in that taxi, anyway?” Brooke asked. “The cameras never showed it. Even the network… they told us not to ask you about it, no matter how much—”
“Let’s just say the four of us had a falling out,” I said carefully. “And leave it at that.”
Brooke hesitated for a moment, looking me over. Whatever she saw must’ve been good enough, because she finally relented and sipped her beer. To the left and right of me, the others slumped their shoulders in relief.
“So are we playing strip poker or what?”
The question came from Reese, straight out of left field. Possibly to the change the subject. More likely though, because he’d been ogling our sexy, blue-eyed host every bit as much as I was.
“Easy bro,” I chided him. “She’s helping us out, remember?”
“So?” His smile widened. “According to the show she’s supposed to be the ‘reckless’ one.”
