Page 59 of Whisper Of Attraction (Whisper Lake 3)

“Yes. It’s a good news, bad news situation.”

“Okay.” Brynn assumed she was referring to the good news being that her dry spell was over, and the bad news being, absolutely nothing would come of it because Axel was moving in a couple of months.

“Ethan and Kade didn’t come up with any new information on Axel.”

Oh, that. With everything that had happened, Brynn totally forgot about her friends’ plan to have their men grill Axel.

Jess continued, seeming totally unaware of the portion of last night that Brynn had been thinking of. “But they both really like him. Ethan said he’s ‘solid’ and Kade thinks he’s a good guy.”

“Oh.” Brynn felt her lips curve up. She wasn’t sure why she was happy that Kade and Ethan had high opinions of him, but she was. “Good.”

“Yeah…that’s all good and everything…” Jess’s lips went flat in a straight line. “But I still feel like we’re missing something. There’s something up with him, I just can’t put my finger on it.”

There was something up with him. And Brynn had put a lot more than her finger on it. That thought caused her skin to heat. One of the worst parts of having such fair skin was that her emotions were displayed on her face in high def.

She heard a noise and for a moment she thought that it might be Axel. Her heart slammed against her chest as she turned toward the hallway. The doorway was empty.

“Brynn, are you okay?”

“What?” She turned back to her friend and saw her questioning expression. “Oh, yeah…I thought I heard something.”

“Heard what? Isn’t Ryder at the school?”

Leave it to Jess to not let it go. Just like she wasn’t letting this whole Mystery Man thing go. She thought about telling the truth, that Axel was in her bed. But for some reason she didn’t. They hadn’t spoken about what last night meant yet, even though it was probably nothing. And he was still in her house.

“I thought I heard Lucy.”

Jess quirked her head to the side. A telltale sign that she wasn’t buying what Brynn was telling her. “Brynn, what’s goin—”

Her friend’s question was interrupted by another knock at the door.

Brynn jumped slightly. “Who’s that?”

She hadn’t meant to sound so surprised at having another visitor, but she was. Jess was already there. Ali was at the rental shop, and the only other person that stopped by unannounced was Karen, but Brynn knew that she’d be busy with breakfast at the B&B.

“One way to find out.” Jess’s eyes bounced between the door and Brynn. “Are you going to answer it?”

“Oh yeah.” Wow. She really was a beat behind today.

She inhaled slowly as she opened the door and was faced with the exact same eyes as the ones that she’d fallen asleep gazing into. But unlike those milk chocolate pools that belonged to a six-foot-plus imposing man, this pair belonged to the five-foot-something teenager that Brynn had stalked on Instagram.

“Hi, I’m Izzy. I’m looking for my brother, Axel. Do you know where I can find him?”

Yep. In my bed.

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