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Mo Paris with her new husband, Nan’s still-inattentive father, hadn’t helped Nan’s mood lately This was all I could think of to cheer her up For once in her life, I wished my mother would think of someone other than herself

“Rush,to you I found her outside looking a little lost” Grant’s voice broke into irl standing beside hinized it

Shit

She was one of them I hadn’t known their names, but I’d remembered there were two of them This one wasBlaire I cutnot too far aith a scowl on her face This wasn’t going to be good Did Grant not realize who this girl was?

“Is that so?” I asked, racking et her out of here—and fast Nan was going to blow any irl who had been a source of pain for eous Her heart-shaped face was highlighted by a pair of big blue eyes with the longest natural eyelashes I’d ever seen Silky platinuainst a pair of really nice tits that she was showing off in a tight tank top Da Can’t say she’s mine”

The girl flinched If I hadn’t been watching her so closely, I would have missed it The lost expression on her face didn’t add up She’d walked into this house knowing she was in unwelcome territory Why did she look so innocent?

“Oh, she’s yours, all right Seeing as her daddy has run off to Paris with your s to you I’d gladly offer her a room at my place if you want That is, if she promises to leave her deadly weapon in the truck” Grant was finding this aht He loved the fact that this was upsetting Nan Grant would do anything to piss Nan off

“That doesn’t make her mine,” I replied She needed to take the hint and leave

Grant cleared his throat “You’re kidding, right?”

I took a swig of aze at Grant I wasn’t in theit too far Even for hio

She appeared to be ready to run This wasn’t what she’d been expecting Had she really thought her dear ol’ dad would be here, waiting for her? That story sounded like bullshit She’d lived with the man for fourteen years I had known him for three years, and I kneas a piece of shit

“I got a house full of guests tonight, and my bed’s already full,” I informed her, then looked back at o find a hotel until I can get in touch with her daddy”

Blaire reached for the suitcase that Grant was holding “He’s right I should go This was a very bad idea,” she said with a hitch in her voice Grant didn’t let the suitcase go easily She tugged hard to get it out of his grasp I could see the unshed tears in her eyes, and it tugged athere? Did she really expect us to open our arms wide for her?

Blaire hurried to the exit I watched the gleeful look stretch over Nan’s face as Blaire walked past her

“Leaving so soon?” Nan asked her Blaire didn’t respond

“You ’re a heartless fk You know that?” Grant snarled beside me

I wasn’t in the mood to deal with hirin She’d enjoyed that I understood why Blaire was a re up

“She looks exactly like I re down beside me on the couch

Grant snorted “You’re as blind as you are ”

“Don’t start,” I warned Grant Nan ht appear happy, but I knew that if she dwelled on it too much, she’d break down

“If you don’t go after her, I will And I’onna put her sexy ass up at my place She isn’t what you two assuot a clue That duood of a liar,” Grant said as he glared at Nan

“Dad would never have told her to come to Rush’s She came here because she’s a ?” Nan scrunched up her nose in disgust

Grant chuckled “Hell, yeah, I sahat she earing Why do you think I want to get her back to ive a shit what you say The girl is innocent, lost, and s damn hot”

Grant turned and headed for the door He was going after her I couldn’t let hiirl was easy on the eyes, but he was thinking with his dick

“Stop I’ll go after her,” I said, standing up

“What?” Nan asked in a horrified voice

Grant stepped back and let e ht I needed to see if this was an act or if she really had been told by her douchebag father to coet a look at her without an audience

CHAPTER TWO

She alking up to an old, beat-up truck when I opened the door and stepped outside I paused a ht her here Grant hadn’t ainst the dark to see if I could make out someone inside the truck, but I couldn’t tell from this far away

Blaire jerked open the driver’s-side door and then paused to take a deep breath It was almost dramatic, or at least it would have been had she known she was being watched But froed in defeat before she climbed up into the truck, I knew she had no idea that she had an audience

But then again, irl I only knew that her father was a fking ave him¸ yet he never returned their tokens of affection or love Thefor Nan orthem both