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"Objective." How was she going to remain objective?
Joanna
Carter snapped shut her laptop, even though her notes on the delicious Spencer
brothers swam in her brain. With a wince, she told herself to relax and sank
further into the plush chair in the private jet terminal. She was about to
leave known civilization for a remote Caribbean island owned by the two
brothers who were the third and fourth richest men in the States. On their
island she would work hard, play never and interview the two grown men whom she
had adored since she’d been four. Her journalism career—her own self-esteem—depended
on whether she could keep her cool and write the profiles like the award-winning
professional she had once been.
Could
she do that? Hell. She had to, if she
wanted to do something as simple as eating for the rest of her life. Too bad
the only way to make that happen was to write an exposé of two men who had once
been her best friends. And my fantastic
lovers.
She
scanned the mod techno terminal and worried her lower lip over the prospect of
seeing the famous—the infamous—Spencer
brothers after fourteen years. When she had lived next door to them in dusty
west Texas, they had treated her like a third wheel, their buddy, their chubby
little tag-a-long. Then they were as nerdy as she was girly. As skinny as she
was chunky. As funny as she was dry. And when she turned eighteen, the two men
introduced her to games, sexy ones.
And
she had loved every minute.
But
now?
I’m a wreck. She froze, ceased fiddling with the
straps to her camera bag and dropped her cell phone in her brief case. Her
hands were sweating, for god’s sakes, like a kid’s. She wiped them on her slacks,
trying to suppress comparisons of who she was today to the two men who were
food for every magazine from The
Economist to Cigar. Gifford and
Joshua Spencer were the worldwide darlings of green technology. Billionaires
from Giff’s invention of super-sensitive wind turbines and Josh’s investments
in other energy-efficient systems, the two thirty-somethings were alternately
recluses or playboys of the global social scene.
And I am a washed-up
investigative journalist trying to launch myself back into major publications.
Trying to fill up my bank account by dishing dirt about my two old pals. Hoping
to rebuild my credibility which I so quickly destroyed being a sucker for a
tycoon who played me for a chick who needed massive cock and thought with her
pussy.
She
was not going to do that with the Spencers. Giff and Josh might have been
gracious enough to consent to their interview, but she would bet good dollars they
did it for old times’ sake. Everyone knew—why wouldn’t they?—that she was persona
not grata at most magazines ever since she did a hatchet job on her former
lover, Renaldo Costas, the billionaire CEO of a huge Brazilian gas and oil
conglomerate.
Crossing
her arms, she glanced out the windows at the cream-coloured executive jet that
Giff and Josh Spencer had sent to pick her up and fly her from Miami to their
secluded island near the Dry Tortugas. She was going to write a sterling piece
on the Spencer boys and make it accurate, make it insightful, make it sing with
their own personalities.
She
squeezed her eyes shut and promised herself she would not be charmed by either
one of them. Especially Giff. She wouldn’t look sideways at either, much less
fall into bed. So what if she had measured every man she had ever met against
the Spencers’ wit and intensity? She needed to return to New York in three days
with three invaluable assets. Great photos of the two fabulously wealthy
siblings. Sharp recordings of their interviews. And objectivity.
Really
chilly objectivity.
Nice work if I can get it.

Sounds great, Cerise!
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