The Girl With Diamonds (Midtown Brotherhood Book 2) by Savannah Blevins

Author:Savannah Blevins [Blevins, Savannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-04-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

MAGNOLIA’S EXCLUSIVE

Austin waited for her outside the conference room. He’d showered and changed. Of course he changed, because he lived to torture her. Gone were the sweatpants and comfortable hoodie. He was back in his suit, his knee brace covering the dark linen pants. His chestnut hair was loose. The stubble she’d noticed while watching the game last night was more of a five o-clock shadow now. She thought it would look odd on his boyish face, but it didn’t. It worked. It worked really well.

He noticed her and smiled. Torture. The boy was constant torture.

She slowly smiled back. “I see you’re ready.”

“Of course.” He absently ran a hand through his hair, causing the ends to fall flawlessly around his eyes. “I wouldn’t want to be anything but professional with you, Miss Cross.”

Ahh. There it was.

“I never said you had a problem with looking professional.”

His grin was uneven. “I’m determined to prove to you that this can work. Plus, I figured since I had them fly you all the way here, I owed you one.”

Magnolia studied him. He definitely owed her. Not just for the ridiculous interview or the horrible restless night on a plane. He ruined her days with thoughts of his cheesy grin and her nights with fantasies of everything else. She absolutely had to stop thinking of him like that. He’d teach her how to avoid Ferocia. They’d put on a show of friendship, and then they would move on. This notion of a crush would go away. It was only a phase.

“You promise none of your Canadian gibberish this time?”

Austin smiled. That smile made her forget her future. “I’m not even Canadian.”

She rolled her eyes and started unloading stuff out of her bag. “Sure, you’re not.”

Austin stepped back, offended. “I’m not.”

“Whatever you say, eh?” She set her bag down and pulled out her notebook.

“First of all. That was a horrible Canadian accent, and I do not sound like that.” He shuffled forward on his crutches, his eyes narrowed. “Second. I’m American. I was born in St. Paul.”

“Minnesota. Canada. Same difference.” She grinned, remembering his nonchalant sentiment about North Carolina and Georgia he made that first night she met him.

“No, it’s not.” He was annoyed. He was adorable when he was annoyed.

Maybe this flirting off camera thing wasn’t so bad after all.

Her motto flashed in her mind but she ignored it. They weren’t technically on camera. Then again, now she didn’t know who could be watching and when.

Evan walked by and handed her a stack of papers, and then darted away. It was Austin’s update. She scanned the information, but she knew Austin still watched her.

She glanced up in time to watch his mouth pop open. “Hey.” He jerked something out of the stack of papers on the table. “Why do you have this?”

It was the issue of The Whisperer she’d stolen from Evan at the bar. Austin held it away from his body as if it might bite him. She cocked her head to the side.

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