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brightly, “you all seem pretty close.”
    Dev finished the drink in his hand. “Too close.”
    “You live across the country, quit complaining,” Kenny told him.
    “Jess wouldn’t dare moon me in person. Distance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
    “Wait,” Paige held up a hand. “Jess mooned you? Long distance? How?”
    Kenny sighed. “Video conferencing gone wrong. We could spend all night listing the pranks and scuffles between these two. Only a fraction of it makes it online. And in fairness, Dev mooned him first.”
    “I hope someone taped those video conferences.” Paige smiled wickedly. It was a gorgeous smile and Kenny was glad Jess wasn’t here to see it.
    “No,” he said firmly. Beside him, Dev shifted his weight and the hair on the back of Kenny’s neck stood on end. He turned to look at the younger man around whom so much trouble orbited. “Tell me ‘no,’ Dev.”
    “Kenny –”
    “All I want to hear is ‘of course I didn’t record the band’s video conferences’ or, if you did, try ‘nothing to worry about, I deleted them.’ Anything along those lines is fine.”
    “I’ll find a corner and get right on it,” Dev turned to leave.
    “Freeze,” Kenny ordered and Dev flinched.
    “Auto-back-up,” Dev said. “Forgot about it until now. I can access it remotely, I just have to make sure I find the right files. But you’re going to want me to do that somewhere no one can look over my shoulder. We don’t want to delete everything , just the bits that we don’t want saved for posteriors. Posterity.”
    “I would say wait until later, but you’ll forget. Go. Just be very careful. Very –”
    “Got it,” Dev said and left with a purpose in his step.
    Kenny turned back to Paige to find her smiling at him. The idea she was rewarding him crossed his mind, but he pushed it aside. He’d dealt with beautiful women before, he wouldn’t be trained that easily.
    “Unchaperoned again,” she said.
    “Doesn’t matter. You’re not allowed to disappear, you said so yourself,” Kenny pointed out.
    “True.”
    “So when’s the Miss North America playoffs?” Kenny asked, then wanted to kick himself when her smile faltered.
    “It used to be in January, but they moved it to Mid-September. Also to Toronto instead of Acapulco, not that it makes a difference.”
    “I’m sensing more to this.”
    Paige shrugged. To Kenny, it looked odd. She didn’t want to talk about it. If Paige didn’t call him over to talk about it, then why ...?
    She could be playing him. She’d make a lovely con artist. Why him though? She’d easily have Jess eating out of her hand. Kenny would be much harder to control. She already overheard enough to confirm that, yet she chose him anyway.
    “Spill,” Kenny ordered.
    Paige smiled again, a shadow of one of her former ones. “You forgot you’re not dealing with Jess or Dev.”
    He nodded, conceding the point. “Please.”
    “I have absolutely no chance of winning Miss North America, so it’s difficult to get excited about it.”
    Kenny took a step back and slowly sized her up. Frowning, he walked around her, taking his time. It had to be something political, of course. Some skeleton in her closet that came out. If she made Miss Great Lakes and suddenly had no chance to go further, it was something like that and she had to know he knew it. Still, his little inspection was bound to bring a smile to her face. Sure enough, by the time he made it back around to the front, she was quietly laughing.
    “You look great to me and I should be in a good position to judge. I mean, I’ve been around. Your talent must really bite.” Kenny shook his head sadly. “Of course I haven’t seen you in a swimsuit,” he added.
    “I rock a swimsuit.”
    Kenny grinned. “I’ll bet.” He took a drink while she laughed loud enough he could actually hear her.
    “So what’s your talent?” Kenny asked.
    “Would you believe singing? And, yes, I actually can. Lessons