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Tegan attempts nonchalance, but her eyes tell a different story. Pulling her phone from her back pocket, Tegan heads away. Great, now she has me focusing on her ass again.
I’m annoyed my hungover state prevents me matching Tegan’s game, because if I were myself, things wouldn’t stop there. I can play too, and she’ll discover I don’t play by her rules.
6
TEGAN
I meet Bryn inside the stadium entrance where he ushers me to one of the offices before I find time to have a real look at my surroundings. A huge LCD screen features an announcement about Blue Phoenix’s and Ruby Riot’s concert tonight. On another wall, one of their recent music clips plays on a matching screen. I’m itching to take pictures, already plotting my blog post. One with Bryn by the screens would be good to share, but I don’t get a chance. Yet.
The small room we step into contains a small round table with four blue-seated chairs, the window overlooking the nearby car park. A woman in a business suit sits at the table furiously typing a text message on her phone, short blonde hair falling across her face.
“Tina, this is Tegan,” says Bryn, to the immaculately groomed woman. “Tegan, Tina. She’s head of PR on tour and works with the tour manager. Makes decisions.”
I grin. Awesome. Maybe I can persuade Tina to let me join her and gain some PR experience. “Hey.”
Tina looks up from her phone and appraises me with disinterest. “Hello.” She looks to Bryn. “I thought you were sending her home?”
Sending me home? I’m not twelve.
“I agreed she could stay if we find her something to do,” says Bryn
“Something to do?” asks Tina.
“Yeah. She doesn’t have any skills really, so maybe you have some ideas?”
“Cheeky bugger!” I say and shove his arm. “Just because I’m not musical.”
“I mean you don’t have training in anything useful for the tour.”
“What did you have in mind?” Tina asks Bryn, frowning at me.
“Dunno.”
“Useful…” She sighs.
“I can be your PA, big brother,” I say with a snigger.
“Very funny, Tegan. I don’t have or need a PA.”
“Oh, well, maybe Jax will be interested in my services.” Bryn looks around sharply, and I grin to indicate I’m teasing. Serves him right for interfering.
Following the sexually charged encounter in the lift, I don’t think Jax would say no to anything I could offer him. It would’ve been easy to drag my fingers through his messy, blond hair and meet my lips with his. I blink away the image of us together. Hot, yeah, but with that comes the inevitable burn.
I turn to Tina. “I can do some promo? Help out with marketing?”
Tina taps her fingers on the iPad. “Do you have any experience?”
“I have a blog,” I suggest.
“You and thousands of other people, honey. That’s not experience.” I bite my tongue at retorting. “We need people to sell merchandise at every venue. Usually we contract locals, but Tegan could help out. Takes a while to set up, and she’d need to be there for sales in the evening.”
“Fine by me,” I say.
Bryn nods. “Keeps her out of trouble in the evenings, at least.”
“No problem. I can cause all the chaos in the daytime.” I shake my head at him. “Seriously though, I’m confused about what you think I’m going to get up to on tour, Bryn. I’m not exactly a wild child.”
Bryn crosses his arms and again I catch a hint his sense of humour has taken a vacation. “I’m responsible for you.”
