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I could see dejection now, like she was taking our burdens on her own shoulders. It was the last thing I wanted.
“No need to be sorry,” I told her. “Devin put a band-aid on it for now. We’ll straighten out the rest of it when we get back.”
“If there’s anything left to straighten out,” Hayden muttered, not-so under his breath.
I elbowed him, hard. He elbowed me right back.
“So Jeremy’s screwing things up, is he?” asked Brooke.
Hayden chuckled. I shook my head.
“Shit, you don’t miss a beat, do you?”
Brooke held her glass out to me. “I try.”
I topped off her glass with more ice cold beer, finishing off the pitcher. Before I could even set it down, another was placed in front of us.
“It’s not so much Jeremy’s fault, really,” Hayden said. “Legendary Tours ended up seizing both trips we had booked, instead of just one.”
“Shit,” she swore. “That sucks.”
“Yeah, they’ve been moving in on our client list since even before we started. I told this to Devin but he didn’t want to hear it. It was a can of worms we never should’ve opened.”
“Well he’ll listen now,” Brooke pointed out. “Won’t he?”
“I hope so,” I shrugged. “If not, well… we’re eventually sunk.”
I watched as she casually sipped her beer, the cool liquid flowing down the inside of her lovely neck. I wanted to bury my face in that neck. Shit, I wanted to bury alotof things.
“I get where he’s coming from,” Brooke said. “He’s looking out for your customers. I feel bad for him though, because it’s like sinking your own boat.”
“Yeah, well the three of us are in that boat,” said Hayden. “So he’d be sinking us all.”
“Besides,” I added. “It’s hard for us to have sympathy for him right now. Not after whathegot and we didn’t, all the way back in Las Vegas.”
I studied our beautiful teammate as her mouth curled into a smirk. She didn’t turn red, though. She didn’t blush at all.
“He got that because he seized on an opportunity,” she said matter-of-factly. “Now if you boys somehow created thesameopportunity…”
I saw her smile widen. Her beautiful eyes flared.
“Well, then you’d definitely reap the same reward.”
Fuck…
It was maddening, not being able to touch her! To bethisclose to her warm, feminine body… those plump, beautiful lips…
And yet not be able to lay even a single finger on her without the camera noticing.
“Yeah, well we’re working on that,” said Hayden.
Regarding us coolly, Brooke took another swig of beer before snapping right back into the same wicked smile.
“Work harder, then.”
FUCK!
Since learning of their sordid, 15-minute tryst back in Vegas, Hayden and I had been jealous as hell. We’d put our minds together a dozen times already, but the cameras were so pervasive, the coverage so tight on us, there was no way of doing anything without the whole world knowing.
