Having It All by Christi Barth

Author:Christi Barth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Josh was the first to bang the door against the wall as he flew out of the bathroom. But he heard it slam four more times, echoing down the hall as his friends copied his lead.

The crap mood he’d been in for two days—ever since the lousy date with Annabeth—meant Josh was spoiling for a fight. He viciously crumpled the red velvet hat in his left hand.

Did he feel like an idiot striding through the halls of Satellite Entertainment Radio half naked? Oh yeah.

But he didn’t have a choice. At least it was marginally less humiliating to have Griff, Knox, Riley, and Logan looking equally stupid in their baggy red Santa pants and black boots. They all piled into the big brick and glass room where they recorded every week. A cover by Weezer of The Christmas Song pumped out of the speakers.

Lara, their producer for the Naked Men podcast who was a dead ringer for Kate Upton, fisted her hands on her hips. Glaring at them with all the disappointment of a teacher calling out the whole class for not being prepared for a pop quiz, she asked, “Why didn’t you wax your chests?”

“Why didn’t you tell us we wouldn’t have shirts?” he shot back.

Sighing, she ran her gaze over each of them in turn. Seeing as how Lara’s motor revved only for women, it was easy to read her lack of, ah, enthusiasm for their naked chests. Hair clearly wasn’t the real issue. “I told you it was a sexy Santa photo shoot. There’s nothing sexy about a big red coat stuffed with a pillow. This way, you’ve got the hats to look festive and the admittedly ripped abs to get everyone’s attention.”

“The name of the podcast is Naked Men,” Riley said with exaggerated patience. “Referring to us being emotionally naked. Not fucking literally.”

Yeah, his patience got away from him a little at the end there.

“Are we going to have to do this dance for every single promotional campaign? I’ve never seen men so loath to be in the spotlight.”

“Because we hate it,” Griffin said. A quiet intensity infused those four simple words. Still didn’t come close to touching how much their experience with the world press since the crash had honed their loathing. “We only want to promote the podcast. Not ourselves.”

“Sorry to tell you, Lieutenant Commander, that you are the podcast. It doesn’t exist without you five.” Lara tip-tapped her red stilettos over to where Knox stood, arms crossed and a murderous scowl on his face. She laid a hand on his arm. “Don’t think I’ve forgotten why you agreed to let us video the podcasts. We told you that the audience would flip for seeing your handsome mugs. Bigger audience means a more committed advertiser pool. More money for the show is more money in your pockets that a little birdie told me you’re first putting behind an effort to get seat belts on school buses.”

“You’re not making hay off that, too, are you?” Logan growled.

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