Rumours by Alison Tyler

Author:Alison Tyler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448133055
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Chapter Eleven

Mia arrived in the middle of Noah Sweet’s second set. I did my best not to look as if I was staring at her, but after a moment I realised that it didn’t matter even if I gawked outright. Nobody was checking out my reaction. All eyes were on the beautiful Mia Long. I could tell she’d won Noah’s attention when he turned to face her directly as he finished his song, a reggae-beat cover of The Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’. The three Sweethearts kept their eyes locked on her every motion, and their adorable little hand gestures froze in the air as Mia headed to the bar.

She’d done good. As if to spite my worries that she’d overdo her outfit, she had toned herself down completely. In fact, I couldn’t believe how well she’d put herself together. Mia looked convincingly local yet stunningly beautiful, as always. She had on inky-blue boot-cut jeans that fit her lanky form to perfection, and her long blonde hair shone bright as polished foil even in the pale light of the bar. She was wearing make-up, but not her standard full LA face. In the mirror behind the bar, I could see her reflection. Her eyes were outlined and her lips were pouty and biteable, but she didn’t appear to be trying too hard.

‘Would you look at that,’ I heard one man nearby say to his buddy as Mia ponied up to the bar.

She had on a blue-and-white man’s style Western shirt that was cut for her body, nipping in tight at the waist and tucked into her jeans. The pièce de résistance was her belt, complete with a rhinestone-studded heavy metal buckle that I recognised from one of her Halloween costumes. She’d gone as a sexy urban cowgirl several years earlier and had snagged the buckle from a $5 bin at Aaardvark’s Odd Ark on Melrose Boulevard. We’d laughed for hours about the weight of that thing. Now I saw that the belt fit her outfit flawlessly, as did her boots, just broken in enough to look real, with a mild heel that was low enough for dancing but gave her a sexy lift, adding just the right amount of height to her 5′ 10″ form.

The only person who didn’t seem to be captivated by her appearance was Cody. When I glanced in his direction, I saw that, rather than checking out Mia, he was looking directly at me. I felt as if he could see right through me, read my thoughts, understand somehow that Mia and I were connected in ways that Noah and the Sweethearts couldn’t possibly guess. Then Cody grinned and tipped his hat brow again, and I realised that he looked mildly embarrassed at having been caught staring. Maybe I was reading something into his expression, but right then I had the genuine feeling that Cody had been watching me all evening, and that I’d only just caught on right now. That was something to think about, but at the moment I was far too interested in how Mia was going to behave.

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