Public Relations by Brittany Anne

Author:Brittany Anne [Anne, Brittany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

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Jared looked at the clock and couldn’t believe that it was nearly one in the morning. Between the ice cream, the stupid movies, and the banter between him and Vanessa, time had really flown by.

She faced him on the couch, legs crossed in her cute little purple pajamas. Her hair was loose and wild. His mind kept drifting back to her story, to her former flame that called her boring, and Jared simply couldn’t wrap his head around it.

How could anyone not be mesmerized by her? How could anyone be bored by a girl like Vanessa? She was caring, compassionate, intelligent, generous. She could be serious one moment and goofy another. She could put him in his place and leave him speechless with a few words.

Yeah. Vanessa was not boring.

“Our big fundraiser is in two weeks. Hard to believe how quickly it snuck up on us.”

Jared smiled. “It’s gonna be great.” The kids and staff alike put so much damn work into the thing. They’d already sold two hundred tickets.

“Thank you for renting out the event room for us. If it was left up to me, the thing would’ve been held in the school’s gym.” She rolled her eyes and giggled.

He bit his cheek. “I’m happy to help.” He didn’t bother to tell her that he was close friends with the hotel owner. Or that he had a permanent room on the top floor. “It’ll be a great night.”

The corners of Vanessa’s eyes crinkled when she smiled. Jared loved seeing it.

Her eyes went down to her hands, which were playing with a string on her pants. She’d been doing it all night, everytime she felt things she didn’t want to deal with.

When her eyes rose to his again, Jared could see exactly what she was running from.

The same thing he’d been running from all night.

Lust.

“How can you be sitting in my cheap apartment eating ice cream with me when you’re a freaking billionaire?” she blurted out.

He laughed out loud at the question, taken aback by it. “I grew up blue collar, I lived my life by the straps of my boots. This is all new.” He thought of the luxuries, the expectations, the assumptions. “A lot of it’s for show.” The limo, the bodyguards… it was more a way for him to make jobs for people who needed them than a necessity.

“You really don’t strike me as the type.” She bit her lip, then licked it. “You seem so normal.”

Jared leaned into the cushions of her couch. “I am normal.” Well, maybe not normal, but he wasn’t some snob. That was for sure. He knew how to get dirty. All too well. “If I could, I’d pack everything up. Go live out on a farm somewhere. Work the land. Build a family. Shut the rest of the world out.”

He surprised himself by admitting that. It wasn’t a very Jared Walker thing of him to say… but it was a Jared thing. It was his dream from boyhood, only now that he had the means…

“Why don’t you?”

He lifted his shoulder and dropped it.

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