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Название: Expose Me
Автор: Кейт Хьюит
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Mills & Boon M&B
isbn: 9781472097002
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“But there is a woman, right?” he asked now, and Alex lifted one shoulder in a shrugging answer.
“There might be.”
“What, she’s playing hard to get?”
“Not exactly.”
Jaiven shook his head, let out another laugh. “Whoever it is, she’s got you by the balls, my friend. You’re looking like you need to get laid.”
Alex smiled grimly. “Maybe I do.” He and Jaiven had always shared the same approach to sex and love: one-night stands, the occasional week-long fling, and absolutely no expectations of anything else. He was honest about that as he was about everything else; he made sure a woman knew the rules before he’d so much as got her bra off.
Except he doubted Chelsea Maxwell was looking for a relationship. No, he was pretty sure she’d view sex the same way he did. Mutually enjoyable for an evening, and no more.
He felt his insides clench with anticipation. That would be plenty.
* * *
Chelsea stared at the little pink slip with Alex Diaz’s name scrawled on it and wondered again just what the man wanted.
He’d called two hours ago, and she wasn’t about to trip all over herself to call him back. No, let him wait. Let him wonder. She tucked the slip in her purse—no need for anyone to know Alex Diaz was calling her—and reached for her laptop.
“Chelsea? Do you have a minute?”
She looked up to see Michael Agnello entering her office. “Of course.” She shut her laptop, pushed her chair away from her desk and crossed her legs. “Just answering some emails.”
“I wanted to talk about the Treffen interview.”
“All right.” Seemed like everyone did, she thought. Coincidence? Probably not. Probably everyone, even Michael, was surprised she’d actually scored a prime-time interview with Treffen. Everyone but her. She’d worked hard for it, and she’d earned it, and she fully intended to have it make her career.
“What about it?” she asked as Michael sat down across from her.
“Treffen and his lawyer want to meet with you before the interview to go over exactly how it’s going to proceed.”
Chelsea frowned, even though she wasn’t really all that surprised. “That seems a bit counterproductive. I’d like to have our conversation progress naturally.”
“Treffen wants a little more control.”
“Why?”
Michael shrugged. “Why not? The man has a reputation, Chelsea, and it’s not to sob on a pink velour sofa.”
Annoyance prickled, even though she knew Michael had a point. “You know this interview isn’t going to be like that.”
“I know, which is why you should meet with him. It makes sense.”
“Maybe.”
In the past week she’d taped two shows, one with a disgraced Olympian who’d had to give back her bronze medal after a doping scandal, and another with a country Western star trying to resurrect her career after several album flops and public meltdowns. Chelsea had brought them to tears both times.
But her interview with Treffen was going to be different. No sordid secrets, no noisy tears. Just honest, respectable journalism. Treffen, after all, wasn’t a washed-up has-been trying to resurrect his career.
I know what he’s done.
She thought suddenly of the hard look on Alex Diaz’s face when he’d spoken about Treffen. No matter what he had or hadn’t said, he clearly didn’t like the man.
And now, Chelsea realized, she wanted to know why. She needed to know, especially if Treffen intended on imposing his control over the interview.
“I’m happy to meet with him,” she told Michael. “But he’d better not expect to dictate all the terms of the interview.”
“He just might,” Michael warned her with a shake of his head. “And if you want Treffen to do this interview, you just might have to agree.”
Chelsea pressed her lips together in silent, if unwilling, acceptance. Nothing could jeopardize this opportunity to interview Treffen, to finally make her career. Rise above the rumors she had always refused to deny. Nothing—not even the man himself.
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