Wanted By Him by Tessa Blake

Author:Tessa Blake [Blake, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Happy Ever After
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

7

Brigitte

I wake up in Ainsley’s guest room, still exhausted. I don’t feel like I slept more than ten minutes in a row all night. The clock says it’s 11:00, and I groan.

Ainsley opted to come to her place last night instead of going to Rafe’s, something I can definitely understand. She needed a shower, and to decompress, and a friend to cry on.

I was glad to find out that she wasn’t actually raped, but I imagine that coming that close to it is nearly as bad, and she was pretty shaken up. We had some wine—too much wine, honestly—and she took that shower, and then we stayed up most of the night doing something we’ve done plenty of other times: talking about guys. It would almost be like high school, if Ainsley’s boyfriend hadn’t just killed a guy—and if she weren’t hiding from him the enormous secret that she’s a reporter, and that he’s her current assignment.

Sticky, for sure.

I get out of bed and get moving; lying there isn’t going to make me feel any more rested, and I need to get to work by noon. I’m not on-air until four o’clock, but there’s prep and makeup and all that to deal with.

I keep a backup outfit here, as Ainsley keeps one at my place, so that’s clothes sorted anyway. In the interest of not scaring pedestrians or my Uber driver, I use a little of Ainsley’s makeup to conceal the bags under my eyes and my ghostly-yet-sallow complexion, then make a pot of coffee and pour some in a go-cup for me. I’m just requesting a car when Ainsley pads into the kitchen on bare feet.

“Sorry I kept you up so late.” She pulls down a cup and pours herself some coffee. “I don’t feel like I slept at all.”

“Me, neither, but it’s fine.” I click to confirm my trip. “Gotta run, or I’ll be late.”

“Brig… thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” I give her a one-armed hug. “You’ll let me know if I can do anything to help with your project?”

She hugs me back. “I think I’ve got it, thanks. But I’ll let you know.”

She decided last night that she’s going to go ahead and write that story about Rafe—only she’s going to make it a story about how he’s not guilty of the real estate fraud she’s been investigating. It’s some big deal—fake tenants, tax avoidance, some White House lawyer killed himself over it. I haven’t followed it all that closely, but I trust Ainsley. If she says the guy from last night—Marco—was responsible and Rafe wasn’t, I believe her.

And she’s decided the only way she can come clean about her fake name and her real job is if she does it with a story that exonerates him, in hand and published.

I hope it works.

I jog down the stairs and climb into the waiting car. Sipping my coffee on the way to the studio, I think back to one topic we only briefly touched on last night.

“So… the brother is cute.

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