Blown Away by Stephanie Julian

Author:Stephanie Julian [Julian, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DeMarco Investigations#3
Publisher: Moonlit Night Publishing
Published: 2012-06-21T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Jimmy, I want to know what’s going on with you and Merri. And don’t you dare stick your head inside that isolation chamber to get away from me.”

If he thought it would get him out of this conversation, Jimmy would’ve stuck his head inside a bonfire. He looked longingly across the room at the furnace then thought, how bad can it be. He could take Janey.

Even sitting, he didn’t have to tilt his head back that far to look into her eyes as she stopped in front of him. “And why do you think it’s any of your business?”

Planting her hands on her hips, Janey tilted her head to the side and gave him that look. He swore she’d been taking lessons from their mother. “Because Merri’s my friend and you’re my brother. That gives me two very good reasons to have an interest in what’s going on.”

Closing down the program he’d been working on, he shoved away from the desk and crossed his arms over his chest. Before he realized that made him look defensive. Then he shoved his hands in his pockets.

“And why do you think there’s something going on?”

Janey rolled her eyes. “Oh please. Like you weren’t staring at her like you wanted to devour her. I know you want her, Jimmy, but I don’t want you to break her heart.”

What? Did he have “I lust after Merri” tattooed on his forehead? Or was he just that transparent? “Okay, so if I agree to consider the fact that what you’re saying is true, do you really think I’d do that on purpose?”

“So you’re telling me you plan to date her?”

“What if I told you she wants me to teach her how to pick up guys?”

There, that got Janey’s attention. “What? No way—”

“She asked me last night.”

Janey’s mouth clamped shut and he saw her running through all kinds of theories. “And what did you say?”

Not exactly what he’d expected her to ask. “I didn’t say anything.”

At least not about her request. But he had kissed her. And he really shouldn’t be thinking about that because Janey would read his mind.

“So what did you do?”

Yep, his baby sister was definitely taking lessons from their mom, except she hadn’t yet learned how to be as subtle.

“I told her I’d show her mine if she showed me hers.”

Her mouth dropped open. “Jimmy! You didn—”

Jimmy started to laugh. “Whoa, Jane.” He held up his hands in surrender as she pulled back and socked him in the arm. “Ow. That hurt.”

“Well, you deserved it. Jimmy, so help me, if you hurt her, I will crush you.”

His laughter died and he realized he needed to talk to someone about this and it might as well be his baby sister. Later, he might hit Nic up for advice but right now, he needed to talk to a female. And his mom was out of the question. “Let me ask you a question.”

She responded with a nod, her expression wary. “Okay.”

“How well do you really

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