Page 28 of Love In The Spotlight

But Nelson’s attitude didn’t appear to be for show, when Jamie felt as if his was for years.

“Hey, Jamie,” Nelson said. “So nice to meet you. I was a big fan. Am a big fan still.”

“Thanks,” he said, shaking the younger man’s hand. What had Laken said, that Nelson just turned twenty-five? Jesus, he couldn’t believe he was putting all his eggs in the hands of a guy in Generation Z.

Then he had to remember people thought that about millennials that he was part of.

“I’m looking forward to this,” Nelson said. “I know Laken and West filled you in. I’m not going to let anyone down. I’ve got this covered.”

“I hope you do,” he said. Jamie was firm but kept his smile in place.

“We were just walking around,” Laken said. “Let’s do it again now that you're here.”

Nelson pulled his phone out and started to take pictures and type. “I’m paying attention,” Nelson said. “Keep talking. I’m taking notes now. Then I want before and after shots. I’ll talk to everyone and make sure I run changes by you and West.”

“I don’t need to know all the changes,” he said.

“He meant me,” Laken said, nudging him with her arm.

“Oh,” he said. Jamie couldn’t find the words for anything else after she’d touched him and he wondered how the hell he could find himself feeling like he had his first crush after all those years of getting drunk and not even remembering sleeping with someone.

9

ADORABLY SEXY

An hour later, Laken and Jamie arrived back at his house. She was going to just get in her car and drive away and then stopped.

“I left my briefcase in your office. I’m sorry.”

“No problem,” he said. “Let’s go get it.”

She followed him through the front door, her eyes dropping to his ass. Too bad it was covered with the long open flannel shirt he had on over a T-shirt.

“Daddy,” she heard and turned her head to see a young girl come running down the hall, blonde hair in a ponytail and the most adorable pink glasses on her face.

She wasn’t sure she’d ever seen a child that young with glasses.

Jamie only glanced at her quickly, then squatted to catch his daughter in a dead run and dive which she assumed was their normal greeting.

“Hey, short stuff,” he said, tossing her high to the sound of giggles.

She had a flashback of her father doing the same thing to her around that age. Her running to him at the airport when he was coming home after deployment.

“Sorry, Jamie,” she heard and almost had to clear the memory from her brain to see an older woman standing in the doorway with a red face. “I thought you were alone.”

“It’s fine,” Jamie said. “Laken, this is Janelle Winters, Penelope’s nanny. And my daughter, as you can probably tell by the grip she has on my neck.”

The little girl was hugging Jamie so tightly that their cheeks were squished together.

Talk about adorably sexy.

“It’s nice to meet you,” she said, shaking hands with Janelle. “I’m working with Jamie.”

“Laken is West’s sister,” he said to Janelle.

“Oh,” Janelle said, the smile wide. “I hadn’t realized that. Jamie is very excited about this endeavor. It took me a while to push him for that meeting with your brother.”

Jamie almost looked embarrassed by that statement.

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