Enchanted: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: 1001 Dark Nights, romantic suspense, contemporary, Lexi Blake, Masters and Mercenaries
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2019-06-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

In which masks are put on…

Hours later Jared wasn’t sure he should even be in the club.

“I heard Big Tag has to clean the restrooms at The Club for a week,” JT was saying. “I don’t know that I would trust him to do that. Have they seen some of the pranks he pulls?”

Sanctum had lost the game. It wasn’t such a surprise since The Club had a former pro leading its team. And Sanctum had…well, if there was a dart throwing contest it would have been Lodge cleaning up. Big Tag should think about that next time.

Or a contest for who could attract the most trolls. He would win that one, too.

“Hey, you okay? I heard you had some asshole bugging you at the game. I was working, but my assistant got gooey about some pictures on the Internet. I saw one of them and it was you. I didn’t realize you were some big star. I’ll admit, I don’t watch a bunch of TV.”

He'd seen the pictures. Someone had taken cell phone pics of him and uploaded them to the Internet. The tabloids, always looking for new content, had run the photos and given away his location.

“I’m not a big star.” He was well aware that his relevancy now had to do with scandal and crime, not his acting. “I used to be on a TV show and then a friend of mine turned out to be a psycho. The media loved the story. ‘Hollywood star involved in killing spree’ was a great headline.”

“I thought we talked about this.” Kai sat down on the bench beside him. His brother had basically made the afternoon one long therapy session. “You are not at fault. That man had no right to hurl those accusations your way.”

“I still have to deal with the fact that a lot of people are going to and I’m dragging you into it.” It was the argument he’d made all day. He looked at JT. “I should have explained my past to you. I shouldn’t have offered you friendship without letting you know what it would cost. There are people out there who think I’m a killer.”

JT frowned. “I run an oil company. You think I don’t get my share of trolls? Hell, I’ve had feds up my ass making sure I dot every I, cross every T and save every turtle in the ocean since I was a kid. Living a blameless life in the age of social media doesn’t exist. Every single one of us is guilty in someone’s head.”

Put like that, it made sense. Kai had talked around and around about how people didn’t connect anymore and the anonymity of the Internet. He’d gone on about societal dysfunction. “Huh, I guess that sucks for you.”

JT nodded. “Sucks for you, too. Ain’t gonna stop living because of it.”

Jared felt his spirits lift. “No. That would be giving in.”

Kai stared at him for a moment. “Are you fucking kidding me? I just said that to you not an hour ago and you had no response.

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