Page 49 of Dating the Rebel
“You think this is funny?” Regina asked. “I quit my IT job to go into business with you, and there’s no way we’re going to earn enough to support the two of us, let alone all three of us. We need to do something.”
Miranda sighed. “I am trying,” she said.
“She really is,” Tabitha said, surprisingly coming to her defense. “She stopped some of the members from leaving, and she met with a potential new one. A prince.”
So Grant was right; Tabitha hadn’t realized who he was. How good of an actor was he that he’d fooled the actress so easily? Not that Tabitha was that great an actress or she wouldn’t have kept getting fired.
Regina arched a dark brow. “Really? Did you sign him up?”
Miranda shook her head.
“Why not?”
She sighed. “Because it wasn’t really a prince. It was Grant Snyder pretending to be one.”
Tabitha gasped and then giggled. “He’s good. He really had me going.”
And he’d had Miranda coming and coming and coming...
She was surprised she wasn’t severely dehydrated after all the sex she’d had with him. She hadn’t seen or heard from him since she’d come home, but it had only been a couple of days so far. She wasn’t giving up on him yet—because she didn’t think he was giving up.
On her?
Or on joining the dating service?
“And you didn’t sign him up?” Regina asked.
“He lied and lured me out to a remote island,” Miranda said.
Tabitha emitted a soft, wistful sigh. “Sounds romantic to me.”
It had been, but Miranda wasn’t going to admit it aloud. She’d tried to not even admit it to herself, but she couldn’t stop thinking about it, about him...
She cleared the desire from her throat and asked, “How does that fit in with our promise of complete honesty from all our members?”
“At least he’d be a member. Blair wasn’t even one when you set her up with our most eligible one,” Regina said. “That wasn’t honest, either, Miranda. You shouldn’t have done that.”
“Blair is my best friend,” she reminded them—needlessly. They both rolled their eyes when she said it.
“And if Blair was really the great friend you think she is,” Regina said, “she would give him up to save our business.”
“Blair is my best friend,” she repeated. So that was why she would never let her friend sacrifice her happiness for business, especially not when that friend was happier than she’d ever seen her.
“So she’ll do it,” Tabitha said.
Miranda shook her head.
“You two have always vowed how you’ll never get married,” Regina reminded her. “Ever. So what’s the big deal if Matteo goes out on some dates with other women?”
Tabitha wiggled her red brows. “A woman like me?”
“That would break the rules—”
“Says the ultimate rule breaker,” Tabitha interjected.
“I’m not breaking any rules—”
“Grant Snyder—”
