Love & Dates by Alina Jacobs

Author:Alina Jacobs [Jacobs, Alina]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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WALKER

“You aren’t wearing your hat,” Luna said accusingly as I rushed around the kitchen, trying to set the food out before my brothers arrived.

“I spend a lot of money to make my hair look this good, darling,” I reminded her as I fanned the cheese slices and cold cuts out on a platter. “A tinfoil hat ruins my look.”

“But they can hear you,” she whispered, staring at me with large gray eyes, her blond head fully encased in a pointed tinfoil hat.

“Not to pat myself on the back,” I said as I scooped out several containers of gourmet crab salad into a glass bowl, “but I kind of sort of own a company that supplies spy equipment to the government, and I can assure you my walls are not bugged.”

“The aliens have better technology than we do.” My sister glared at me. “They’re listening to us right now. There was an article in Alien Times magazine about several people who claim to have seen them. And there have been several unexplained events lately.” She held up a five-inch binder stuffed with newspaper clippings. “They’re in league with the giant voles that live under LA.”

“Damn it, Greg was right. I do let you watch too much TV.”

“Kim Kardashian is starting a line of antisurveillance fashion,” Luna protested as I gave the potato-and-cheddar soup in the Crock-Pot a stir.

“Yeah, our company is developing an algorithm to counteract that, but good luck, Kim. Here, why don’t you help me set out all the desserts?” I said, handing her the Tupperware containers, hoping to distract her. “They’re going to be here—” I heard, then a furious knocking on the door. “Now.”

I inspected my reflection in the mirror then flung the front door open.

“Welcome to the sandwich and salad bar,” I boomed to my siblings.

The oldest, Greg, managed Svensson Investment and seemed to think that having hundreds of billions of dollars under management entitled him to boss everyone else around. The next oldest was Beck, who had no sense of humor or appreciation for desserts. Mike, cofounder of Greyson Hotel Group with our half brother, Archer, didn’t know that when Quantum Cyber programmed his hotels’ high-tech security systems, I always issued myself an access card for the pool and the buffet. Then came yours truly, the cream of the crop as far as Svensson brothers went. After me came Liam, who shared my fondness for stolen food. The youngest was Carl, who worked as an account manager at Svensson Investment and liked to think he was hot shit now that he had a girlfriend.

My younger sisters had been parceled out to my brothers and me, while my dozens of younger brothers lived in a dog pound in Harrogate. Christmas was fun at the estate, especially because I didn’t stay and clean up.

Beck gave me a dirty look and pushed past me into the airy condo, followed by the rest of my family—at least, the family members who lived in Manhattan.

If you ignored Luna’s serial-killer conspiracy

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