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His sister burst into gales of laughter “Oh, this is fabulous The one woman in New York who doesn’t knoho you are” She whipped out her phone “Just wait until my followers hear about this”
Kayla frowned “I’ here”
“I’-in-popularity Broadway production “And the brat doing the tweeting? She’s my twin, but she’s also a famous model Just ask her”
The beautiful younger woman put her phone where Kayla could see the screen “It’s true See? I have over a million Twitter followers”
“I’et out much,” Kayla muttered
Both Jacob and his sister laughed, clearly more amused than offended
“So, you’ll let me show you my city?” Jacob asked persuasively
His superrinned and winked “Oh, do say yes It’s been an age since he’s been out with anyone asn’t a total sycophant”
She didn’t want to go back to the hotel, where Andreas would be soon “Maybe I will”
“Maybe we can start our evening early” Jacob jureement
“I hate to break it to you, but I’”
“I ly “Just ask my sister”
“He really does,” said the woman, still very busy with her smartphone
And that was how Kayla found herself spending the next several hours in the very pleasant co Other than a couple of people asking for Jacob’s autograph, people mostly left him alone New Yorkers took his presence and even Kayla’s with him in stride
“Do you want to stop at your hotel and get ready to go out?” he asked solicitously later
No, she really didn’t, not and risk running into Andreas Kayla’s backpack had everything she needed besides the clothes and shoes she’d bought while out shopping
“It et ready at your place so you could get ready at the same time,” she offered
“I like the way you think”
He put the ares for her around her shoulder “Don’t take that as some kind of invitation”
“I wouldn’t dreahter in Jacob’s voice mocked her
But Kayla smiled anyway
Jacob lived in an older, secure building, not far from the theater district Jacob caner jeans that showed off his manly assets in delicious ways and a white silk shirt
He approached Kayla, who had changed into the new dress in his tiny bathrooht curls into a lowed in his blue eyes “You look a, Kayla”
“Thank you”
Jacob put his hands on her shoulders, intent unmistakable in his eyes
Pounding on his door startled them both Jacob jumped back “What the hell?”
“Open the damn door,” Andreas bellowed from the other side
Kayla gasped “Andreas”
More pounding “I know you are in there, Kayla Tarkent, open this door!”
Jacob’s last name was Tarkent?
“Do you knoho that is?” Jacob asked
“My boss”
“Your boss?” Jacob asked “Not your boyfriend”
“No Boss”
“He sounds like a pissed-off lion”
The door shook with the force of Andreas’s pounding “Kayla!”
“Um, yeah”
“Do I open it or call the police?”
“I wouldn’t call the police” She’d never seen Andreas in this mood She didn’t knohat he was capable of, but she did know theater productions needed backers and backers meant money and Andreas kne to manipulate money
“Are you afraid of him?”