Giving It All by Christi Barth

Author:Christi Barth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2017-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Completely confused, Brooke looked left across the crowded National Mall at the stately Greek columns of the National Gallery. Which was closed at seven o’clock at night. Then she looked right to the red-tiled roof of the National Air and Space Museum. Also closed. Then, of course, her gaze landed straight ahead at the wide marble steps of the U.S. Capitol. Since she wasn’t on one of those double-decker red tourist buses, Brooke had no idea why they were here.

She hadn’t hesitated for a second when Logan asked her to meet him at the Metro station. First of all, because he was probably still sort of shell-shocked from meeting his sister two days ago. Definitely in need of fun, TLC, or both, which was right up Brooke’s alley. Secondly, and more selfishly, because Logan made her feel good.

Even though their afternoon with Madison had had more than its fair share of awkward moments, Brooke still enjoyed just being with him. His easy manner, ineffable sensuality, and utter manliness pushed all her buttons to go. Time with Logan was fun and, more importantly, effortless. No posing, no working hard to make the right impression, like she did with real dates. Being with Logan was all the goodness of hanging with a close friend, topped off by the awesome extra of the super-duper sexiness he’d grown into.

When you got an old friend back, you clutched all the harder at every opportunity to be with him, because now you knew the emptiness of him being out of your life. Which wasn’t to say that she’d consciously missed Logan over the years. Leaving high school automatically meant leaving people you cared about behind. Friendships changed, ebbed and flowed across the years—that was just the way of it.

But with him back in her life, she so strongly remembered their—well, she’d use his word—comfortable friendship. Teenagers often weren’t that close with the opposite sex when not dating. They’d known their friendship was looked at as weird back then. Other people not getting it didn’t stop them, though. It didn’t stop them from always finding things to talk about. To tease about. Things between them always just clicked. And now all those pieces fell into place again just as easily.

Thirdly, and most obviously, she’d agreed to meet Logan because she’d be insane to pass up a beautiful summer night with an incredibly hot man whose low laugh brought goose bumps to her skin.

But he’d been mysterious about the plan for the evening the whole trip on the subway. “I don’t understand why we’re here,” she complained. “Congress is in its summer recess. Besides, even if it weren’t, you don’t strike me as the type who wants to brush shoulders with lobbyists for giggles.”

“God, no.” He playfully yanked at the single thick braid hanging halfway down her back. “Bite your tongue, woman. Lobbyists wag their tongues all day long and don’t do a lick of solid work.”

She widened her eyes and pressed a hand to his mouth. “Bite your tongue.

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