The Ballerina's Secret by Teri Wilson

Author:Teri Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-09T15:20:54+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Julian Shine won’t return my calls.” Zander arched a single eyebrow and crossed his arms, flashing a pair of cuff links that probably cost more than what Tessa made in a month. Maybe in a year. Frustration rolled off him in waves.

Tessa loved her brother, and she was immensely proud of all that he’d accomplished. At just under thirty, he was one of the youngest—if not the youngest—self-made billionaires in Manhattan. But every so often, he drove her nuts.

Now was one of those times.

“You felt the need to come all the way down here to tell me that?” Tessa glanced at the clock above her mother’s vintage record player. “At eight thirty in the morning?”

She hadn’t even finished her coffee. Tessa had barely had time to unlock the Wilde School of Dance’s doors and flip on the lights before Zander turned up, asking for help.

Except technically, he hadn’t asked. In true alpha-male fashion, he’d announced his problem and then stood there waiting for Tessa to fix it.

“This is important, and now seems to be the only time you’re free. Mom says you’re at rehearsal from morning to night, every day.” He sighed and bent to give Mr. B a pat on the head. “She’s worried about you, you know.”

“Yes, I know. But things are fine. They’re more than fine. I’m dancing the lead, remember? Things are great.”

Things were not actually great. Things were complicated, and they seemed to be growing more complicated by the day. Case in point: her brother was apparently here to discuss Julian.

Call her crazy, but Tessa wasn’t exactly keen on chatting up her brother about the man she’d nearly had sex with on the ballet-studio floor a week ago. Especially since she’d barely exchanged two words with Julian in the week following that mortifying, yet thoroughly delicious, experience.

She wasn’t angry with him anymore. Not completely. It had been pretty easy to figure out why Julian had stopped things when he had once she overheard the conversation between him and Chance.

Is it the burns? The scars aren’t as bad as you think they are.

The scars.

Tessa couldn’t stop thinking about them...about him. She wanted to talk to him, to tell him she wasn’t afraid of whatever he was trying to hide. Maybe she should be, but she wasn’t. She knew what it was like to transform into a different person in the blink of an eye. Tragedies changed people. If anyone could understand that, Tessa could.

But Julian had barely looked at her in the week since that night. Oh, how the tables had turned.

“The role is a big responsibility. I’ve been practicing after hours. It’s no big deal.” Tessa shrugged.

The evening rehearsals were the bane of her existence. She spent the entire two hours every night doing her best to focus on Chance and their pas de deux instead of seeking out Julian’s reflection in the mirrored walls. She’d caught him watching her more than once. But he always packed up his messenger bag and left before she could catch him for a private conversation.

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