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    “Oh. I will.” He picked up his slice of pizza, taking a big bite and considered how to pay her back. Mentioning intimate details of their weekend had started it all, but he needed to up his game now.
    They had the Jeremiah challenge sitting between them. That he could win in his sleep. She liked to cajole and primp the clients to get them to do what they needed to do. The problem was most of the clients could fill a stadium of people willing to blow smoke up their ass. There were a rare few clients who had someone that could look behind the facade and see what the person really wanted, what they really craved.
    The computer mogul hadn’t shown up to six appointments because the man had spent his puberty in a basement tinkering with gadgets. He had friends to talk tech with. Yet, like any awkward-as-hell-teenage boy, he never got over being shell shocked when a pretty girl not only smiled his way but asked about him, showed an interest in him. Sebastian should damn well know.
    Nicole smiled at him, looking smug as hell. His cock tightened with need. He swallowed down more pizza. Eventually, he said, “Since we’re spending the next three weeks in each other’s hip pockets, tell me how you got started in this business.”
    Shock widened her eyes. She hadn’t expected the question. He would have laughed, but he had a plan and wasn’t going to ruin it by celebrating just yet.
    “We didn’t talk about our jobs, did we?”
    “Nope.”
    Moments passed by in silence, and then she shrugged. “In college, I was the newspaper geek. I’d worked my way up to editor when a huge story broke on campus: A student and a professor got caught sleeping together.”
    She tore a small piece off her pizza, contemplated it and then chewed. After Nicole swallowed she started up again. “Now, Georgia was in her mid-thirties and was coming back to college to get a degree she missed out on in her youth. She didn’t have kids. Never been married. She simply wanted something different in her life. Since I had my finger on the pulse of everything, even then, I found out they were thinking about firing the professor and kicking the student out.”
    Sebastian had asked to distract her, but now he was interested. “What did you do?”
    “I hunted Georgia down and convinced her to give a little ol’ college student the exclusive. I promised I wouldn’t make the story a smear campaign. I wouldn’t turn what they had into something tawdry.”
    “But the professor was in the wrong for sleeping with the student.”
    “No question. He should have known better, but Georgia was going to get thrown under the bus for following her heart, maybe for the first time in her life. I went to the college’s radio DJ and told the story there. Made some more calls and did some footwork.” She spread her hands, another smile. “By the end of it all she got to stay, the professor got sacked, and I wanted to do it all over again. And again.”
    “What a soft touch,” he said.
    She let out a disgusted sigh. “This is why I didn’t want to tell you.”
    “Didn’t say there was anything wrong about being a softy. Just stating a fact.”
    A shadow passed over her gaze. “You can’t be soft in this business.”

Chapter Four
    Sebastian leaned back and took in her face. Most of the war paint had faded, and she looked more natural, approachable. The same way when they first met. A little vulnerable sitting alone at the bar, but she’d fired back a witty response the moment Sebastian asked if he’d seen her before.
    Things changed quickly as the heat between them damn near fried the air. They hadn’t asked many questions. They were taking a night off from work. They were single. They wanted each other. That damn simple. For him, press junkets had filled up the moments they weren’t together. Now that he knew she was the Nicole Harrison of Limelight, press junkets had probably filled up her time too.
    When he thought of Limelight, he thought of