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stood a
chance.
    “Right.” Liam rubbed his hair and gave us
that quiet smile that told me he was acutely uncomfortable being in
the spotlight. “I have to pick a team to nominate for eviction.
Katy and I thought long and hard about this.” He glanced down at
his blonde partner, who gave him a small little smile as if sharing
a secret. He winked at her, and then he turned back to us. “In the
end, we decided to just go with what we thought was fair for
everyone, and picked the team that came in last in the reward
challenge.”
    At my side on the couch,
Jendan’s leg nudged mine, as if to say Good
call .
    On my other side, Brodie nudged me, too. I
was starting to feel like I was a punching bag caught between the
two men.
    Liam clasped his hands and exhaled. “So,
tonight, I’m placing the team of Mickey and Lenore up on the block.
I hope you guys realize it’s nothing personal, just that someone
had to go up.”
    “No problem,” Mickey said, a pleasant look on
his broad face. He moved to the two chairs designated at the front
of the room for the nominated players.
    Lenore looked less pleased. She cast an angry
look at Liam. “That just cost you the game, young man.”
    Liam’s eyebrows went up in surprise, but it
was Katy who lost her temper. She stood up, all five foot nothing
of her, and put her hands on her hips, facing down the elder woman.
“You just got our votes, then. I’m glad we put you up. I hope
you’re the first one to go home. I—”
    “Katy,” Liam murmured, putting an arm around
the blonde’s shoulders and steering her away from Lenore. “Let it
go, baby.”
    “That was just rude,” Katy muttered, but she
slid in close to Liam again, sending another scowl Lenore’s
way.
    Liam patted Katy’s shoulder
and pulled out a blue House Guests card, reading from it. “The final vote will be two
nights from now, when the live TV show is filmed again. Until then,
the two nominated contestants will be allowed to campaign to try
and sway votes to their side.”
    “Yeah, good luck, Lenore,” Katy cut in.
    Liam shushed his girlfriend again, but there
was a smile on his face. The rest of us quietly laughed at small
Katy’s fierce rage on her tough-looking boyfriend’s behalf. “Once
the vote is finished and the contestant has left the house, you
will prepare for the next Power competition and another game twist.
Be ready.” He flipped over the card and then shrugged. “That’s all
it says.”
    “Another twist, huh?” Brodie rubbed his chin
thoughtfully. “Wonder what kind.”
    “Nothing good, I’m sure,” Casper pointed out.
Several others nodded.
    “Well, enough about that,” Mickey said,
getting to his feet. He clapped his hands and gave us all a beaming
smile. “Who wants a massage, courtesy of their favorite masseuse
who needs a vote?”
    ~~ * ~~
     
    The night before our first live show, I was
wide awake long after midnight.
    Not because I’d heard something in the creepy
old house. I hadn’t since that first night. Not because I was
nervous about the live show. I wasn’t. Instead, I listened closely
to Brodie’s breathing on the couch across from mine. When I was
sure his breathing was even and he’d gone to sleep, I peeled back
my blankets and slipped off the couch, tiptoeing out to the
backyard.
    I returned to the living room a few minutes
later to find Brodie laying on my couch, giving me an expectant
look as I tiptoed back in.
    Busted. Damn it. He’d been faking going off
to sleep.
    “Whatcha got there, hotness?” he
whispered.
    “None of your business,” I whispered back.
“How’d you know I was up?”
    “You’re totally obvious,” he said. “When
you’re agitated, you twitch a lot and can’t sit still. And you were
twitching like mad tonight, so I knew you were up to
something.”
    I sighed and flopped down on one end of the
couch, sitting across Brodie’s sprawled legs. If he wasn’t going to
get up, I’d just sit on top of him. “That’s right. You