Home Grown Talent by Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm

Author:Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Mason

Frankie Slade, Mason’s agent, was ecstatic about Weekend Wellness.

“Almost 9000 new followers!” he crowed when they met for breakfast a few days later. “And that’s after just one slot. You’re knocking on the door of 100K, Mase! And when we hit that magic number, we trigger the additional fee in the Masculin contract. Plus, Maya says there’s two new deals just out this week we can put you forward for.”

Mason poked at his egg white omelette. He’d ordered it to save himself a lecture—Frankie would have him living on oxygen and protein smoothies if it was up to him. “Yeah,” he said, pasting on a smile. “I’m pretty stoked.”

He was pretty stoked, actually, but that “we” Frankie used grated on him. Frankie had done nothing to help him with his influencer work. In fact, he’d been downright dismissive of it until Masculin had told him they were interested in Mason. That—well, the money they’d waved under his nose—had got Frankie’s attention.

Frankie was fundamentally old school. He’d been in the business for years, and modelling was what he knew best—and he did get Mason great modelling work; Mason had no complaints about him on that front—but whenever Mason tried to talk to him about developing his career in another direction, away from modelling, Frankie didn’t even bother to hide his lack of interest. Or, maybe, lack of knowledge. Mason had the uneasy feeling that his relationship with Frankie had reached its sell-by date, and he wasn’t sure what to do about it.

After breakfast, he headed out to Finchley for a casting. He didn’t have to go to a whole lot of castings these days, but this was for a big job: the Christmas shoot for a well-known fragrance line. There would only be a handful of models there, all hand-picked for the shortlist.

The casting went well. He was friendly with the casting director, Dev, and the clients seemed to like him. They certainly made sure they got plenty of shots and film of him.

“I saw you on TV the other day,” Dev said, as he walked him out, his hand on Mason’s shoulder. “That was a very cute little piece you did with that gardener hunk. Where did you find him?”

Mason laughed. “Owen? He’s Lewis Hunter’s brother.”

“Lewis that you used to…?” Dev trailed off meaningfully, his eyebrows raised.

Mason flushed. “That was over ages ago. It was nothing. We were never serious.”

“Yeah, course,” Dev said casually, though Mason knew he probably remembered the conversation they’d had over cocktails last year when Mason had complained about Lewis dumping him. Which was embarrassing on a number of levels, not least the fact that he’d been more irate about having to find a last-minute replacement to go to the British Fashion Awards with him than the fact that their relationship was over.

What was more disturbing even than that memory, though, was the fact that he found himself wanting to tell Dev that he was with Owen now. That Lewis’s hunky gardener brother was his.

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