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Tori raised her eyebrows, and he winked at her – he’d said that mostly for her benefit. He needed her to know how he saw her.
“I know,” said Brock, “It’s just that you might have some input, too.”
“Okay.” He smiled at Tori. “It’s Brock. He wants to ask you about something.”
She smiled and nodded, and although she looked happy to hear from Brock, Xander loved that she didn’t light up in the same way that she had when she first opened the door and saw him.
“Okay, you’re on speaker,” he told Brock. “What can we do for you?”
“Hey, Tori.”
“Hi Brock. How are you? What are you up to? Are you still in Montana?”
Brock laughed. “No. Kolby and Callie are settling into their new place. The rest of us shipped out. Tony and Vaughn went back to Nashville, and Ward and I came back to home base. But I just had an offer, and I wanted to pick your brain.”
Tori raised her eyebrows at him, and Xander shrugged.
“What kind of offer?” she asked.
“Corbyn got in touch with me and asked if I wanted to go and work for him.”
“Why? What’s going on?”
Tori looked so worried that Xander went and put his arm around her. After everything that had happened with Callie’s stalker, it was understandable that she might freak out at the thought of another of her friends needing security.
“Don’t worry,” Brock reassured her quickly. “There’s nothing going on. But after what happened, Corbyn likes the idea of having one of us on staff – someone to go with his singers whenever there’s a potential for trouble.”
Tori was still frowning. “Which artists?”
“You probably know better than I do who he manages; the only name that stuck with me was Carson because he was on the tour with Callie. He seemed like a good guy.”
Xander watched Tori’s face – she was smiling again now. “Oh, he is. And I can see why Corbyn might want you to keep an eye out for him.”
“Is he trouble?”
She chuckled. “Not in the way you’re probably thinking. He’s …” She glanced at Xander, and he gave her a puzzled look. “Girls go crazy over him. I imagine that if you’re going to work with him, it’ll be more a case of fighting off screaming women than protecting him from a crazy man.”
“I see.”
Xander chuckled. “Sounds to me as though you might have some fun – you could take a few for the team.”
Tori rolled her eyes at him, and Brock laughed. “Yeah. That’s not exactly my style, and you know it.”
It was true. While they’d been working together, the other guys had all happily managed to divert the attentions of some of the women who flocked around Carson and Matt and their bands, but Xander hadn’t seen Brock with a woman even once.
“If Corbyn called you, then my guess is that he probably noticed that about you on the tour,” said Tori. “They’ve had a few problems with Carson’s security guys in the past – one of them got into a whole heap of trouble when a woman went to the tabloids claiming that she’d had his baby.”
Xander shook his head. He’d known that groupies existed, but the behavior of some of those women had shocked him – and that took some doing. It wasn’t like he was a celebrity but during his time as a Navy SEAL, there had been plenty of women who’d tried to bed him and his teammates just because of what they did. He could only imagine that it was a hundred times worse for a country music star.
“What do you think? Is that enough to put you off?” he asked.
“Maybe,” Brock said. “Corbyn’s asked me to go visit and I might just do that and see. I wish you guys were going to be there.”
Xander met Tori’s gaze, thinking about the conversation he’d had with Slade about getting her back to Nashville, but not wanting to broach the subject while Brock was listening. To his surprise, she grinned at him and nodded eagerly.
“It’s funny you should say that, Brock. We haven’t had the chance to talk about it yet, but I was telling my mom this morning that I really should get back and check on my house soon.”
Xander grinned back at her. “How soon are you thinking about going?” he asked Brock.
