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"I need you to get Brody Matthews’s people on the phone and get ure sponsorship for a new yet-to-be- sir hotness himself, but are you aware that he punched a fan and is now MIA? Not exactly a good ie for whatever project you haven’t toldthe man I just need to talk to hiet him out of whatever hole he’s in"

"Oh," she says "Then this is trouble"

"I’m really sick of that damn word, but yes It is"

"This has to do with Derek in sos have to do with Derek?"

"I’ht not I reserve that privilege, just in case I need it I’ ready"

"Understood"

We end the call and I look up to find E reen blouse and a simple black skirt, her dark hair a silky veil over her shoulders She is stunning "Everything okay?" she asks, walking towardthe counter to stand besidefrom Seth yet," I say, "but he and his , her floral scent teasing my nostrils, and I decide I could wake up to that smell every day pretty damn easily

She settles on the barstool beside ood news," she says, "but no news is all I’ve had from my brother And no news is what took ht he died"

"Seth will have news," I promise "And he’ll have it today"

"I want answers and they make me nervous at the sa a sip, her lips touching where , a new inti that we are more than ere even yesterday

I cover her hand where it holds the cup and take a drink, the air crackling around us, and she actually sucks in a tiny breath My lips quirk and I set the ry?"

"Is that even a question?"

I laugh and motion to the room service plates "I , but I don’t think I can eat, after all"

"You have to eat," I say, reht of the pastries and she sighs "Okay I can eat" She grabs a small plate and I do the sa ht "That paper ht was the deed to the apartot hi it tohow to play his game"