With: Lisa Brown Roberts
Summers are supposed to be fun, right? Not mine. I’ve got a job at my dad’s company, which is
My boss is running the competition like it’s an episode of Survivor. Then there’s Carlos, who is, well, very distracting––in a good way. But I can’t even think about him like that because fraternizing on the job means instant disqualification for the intern involved.
As if that’s not enough, an anonymous informant with insider intel is trying to sabotage my dad’s company on social media...and I’m afraid it's working.
Much as I’d love to quit, I can’t. Kristoffs Never Quit is our family motto. I just hope there’s more than one survivor by the end of this summer.
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Excerpt from Spies, Lies, and Allies: A Love Story:
“Let’s
see where helping me on my project falls on this list.” Carlos picks up a pen
and clicks it, eyeing me from underneath ridiculously long lashes.
Cautiously,
I take a tiny step toward his desk so I can read the list.
“Number
three.” I point to the napkin. “Teamwork.”
He
nods and underlines the word. I notice he’s added numbers six through ten.
Nothing is written next to those numbers, except for ten, next to which he’s
drawn a smiley face.
“What’s
that for?” I point to the smiley face. He leans back in his desk chair and
grins up at me.
“Not
sure yet.”
My
heart throbs in my chest and my imagination is off and running, fantasizing
about number ten.
Carlos
points to number five: nicknames. “I think this is where we left off at lunch.”
He clicks his pen repeatedly and I resist the urge to snatch it out of his
hand. “I’d prefer not to be nicknamed for a pasta, but I gave you a cereal
nickname, so…” He shrugs but keeps his eyes on mine.
“I…pasta…what?”
He’s not making sense.
He
bites his bottom lip, and I have no trouble picturing what will make me “smiley
face” if we ever make it to number ten. Also, I’m pretty sure he’s a mind
reader because his gaze drifts down to my lips, then back up to my eyes.
“The
Manicotti. Who is it?” He glances across the room. “Elijah? He can be sort of
cheesy.”
My
mind analyzes his words, sliding them around like one of those puzzles where
you have to move a string through twisted metal. And then it clicks.
“You read my
notebook! You’re the one who—” Panic zings through me as I remember what I
wrote about him, Carlos is trouble,
and his editorial comment, True. Is
Carlos adorable?
Apparently I’m
not the only spy around here.
“Why’d you pick
this desk?” I’m desperate to change the subject.
“I like the
view.”
“But it’s better
by the windows.”
“Depends on which
view we’re talking about.” He gives me a cryptic smile, one that makes my
stomach dip. “Anyway, I saved your notebook. You’re lucky no one else read your
notes.”
Mortified and
defiant, I cross my arms over my chest. “You didn’t have to read it. You
could’ve just returned it.”
“I was just
checking to make sure you’d listed all of Mr. Mantoni’s rules.”
“Uh huh.”
Across the room,
Elijah stands up and stretches. He glances at us, an amused smirk twisting his
lips like he knows something I don’t.
Carlos writes on
the napkin again. Number six:
healthy disagreement.
“You’re kidding,
right?”
His responding
grin packs more heat than it should.
“I think we’ve
gone off track.” I’m proud of how calm I sound, even though my nerve endings
are exploding like firecrackers.
About Lisa Brown Roberts:
Award-winning
romance author Lisa Brown Roberts still hasn’t recovered from the teenage
catastrophes of tweezing off both eyebrows, or that time she crashed her car
into a tree while trying to impress a guy. It’s no wonder she loves to write
romantic comedies.
Lisa’s books have earned praise from Kirkus
Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the School
Library Journal. She lives in Colorado with her family, in which pets
outnumber people. Connect with Lisa at www.lisabrownroberts.com.
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