Kings of California books 1-3 by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Thomas, I’ll straighten this out as soon as I—we—get home,” Travis was saying.

From Julie’s perch on one of the sleek sofas in their suite, she turned her head to follow Travis’s progress as he paced around the perimeter of the room. Ever since he’d landed and been told about the scandalous photo of them that had apparently been sold to an American tabloid, Travis had practically been foaming at the mouth.

She couldn’t really blame him, though. As it was, Julie wanted to find a hole and crawl into it. Her mother had seen that picture. And her friends at home. And their parents. And strangers the world over were, even now, standing in grocery lines across the globe, looking at her blacked-out boobs.

She groaned.

“My lawyers are handling the situation,” he insisted and Julie had the feeling that Thomas Henry, wine distributor, was less than impressed with Travis’s assurances.

By the time Travis had returned, Julie had fielded three more phone calls, though none of them had had quite the embarrassing punch of her mother’s. Still, talking to Travis’s brothers, not to mention his lawyer, about the photos had pretty much sapped whatever energy she’d had left.

How was she ever supposed to look people in the eye again? Maybe she wouldn’t have to, she thought frantically. Maybe they could move. To Zimbabwe or something. Yes. That would work. Run and hide until the embarrassment faded away. Shouldn’t take more than ten or twenty years.

They couldn’t hide though. They had to go back to Birkfield. Which was why Travis was on the phone now with Thomas Henry, trying to smooth ruffled feathers. Though what Henry had to be ruffled about, Julie wasn’t quite sure. It wasn’t him splashed across papers, sharing space with stories about headless aliens and fifty-pound newborns.

Oh, God.

“Fine. I’ll get in touch as soon as I’m home. We’ll work this out, Thomas.” Travis hung up and tossed the phone onto the nearest chair. “This is a mess.”

“You think?”

He shot her a quelling look.

She gave him one right back. “Hey, I’m in those pictures, too, you know.”

“Right, right.” He nodded, stuffed his hands into his slacks pockets and walked toward her. “I don’t like not having control. It’s not natural.”

“Welcome to the real world,” she muttered.

“I’d rather have my own. Where I make the rules.”

She knew that. It was in his nature to be in charge. To take care of things himself. To protect those he cared about. Not that she was putting herself in that very select crowd. This was just a special circumstance.

Time for a change of subject. “What did Mr. Henry have to say?”

Travis scrubbed one hand across the back of his neck. “I told you he was eccentric? Well, he’s also conservative. Yeah, and don’t ask me how he can be both. He just is.”

“Okay…” Eccentric and conservative.

“Seeing that picture made him rethink doing business with King wines, but I think he’s coming around. He admits that it’s our honeymoon and hardly our fault!” Travis said as Julie took a tight rein on her runaway imagination.

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