The Reed Security Relationship Manual: A Reed Security Romance, Giulia Lagomarsino [acx book reading .txt] 📗

Giulia: How's that?

Parker: Well, the second to last book of the series? I mean, everyone else got more time in the books than that.

Giulia: You've made a few guest appearances. And if it makes you feel better, the readers were really excited to hear from you.

Parker: Yeah, I guess. Still, Sinner got twenty-six fucking books to appear in, and that's if you don't include when he appeared in the first series.

Giulia: That's not true. He didn't appear in every book.

Parker: Well, most of them. We all know that he's your favorite.

Giulia: I think we all know that's not true. Cap is my man.

Parker: That may be, but you use Sinner more than anyone else.

Giulia: Well, he is the lady killer. But you rank right up there with him. And, I am giving you your own series.

Parker: Really?

Giulia: Well, it won't be yours alone, but it'll follow your family and you'll make appearances.

Parker: Will I get my own book?

Giulia: Do you even have to ask? I mean, I'm sure after all that's happened, the readers want to hear more from you and Blake.

Parker: Well, we are pretty awesome.

Giulia: Especially with that monster cock of yours.

Parker: Now you're just trying to stroke my ego.

Giulia: Well, since you're imaginary, I can't stroke what I'd really like to.

He shoots me a cocky grin.

Parker: Well, how about we make a deal. I'll give you as many sexual favors as you want, as long as you make sure that I come out looking really good in my next book.

Giulia: I'll take that deal. Why can't all my other interviews go this well?

Parker: Because they've known you longer. You've had more time to fuck with their lives.

Giulia: Well, if they had struck the deal with me that you just made, I can guarantee that their books would have turned out differently.

Parker: Just make sure that Blake never finds out about this. The last thing I need is to be thrown through another window.

Giulia: This will be our secret.

Blake: Excuse me, but are you handing out sexual favors behind my back?

Parker looks to Blake in shock and then back to me.

Parker: You said she wouldn't find out.

Giulia: I can't help it that she entered my brain at that moment!

Parker: She's your character! Just block her from listening!

Blake: If you fuck her, we are so over.

Parker: You know, now I see why everyone storms away from these interviews.

Giulia: Hey! We had a deal!

Knight

Knight stalks into the room, a gun in his hand.

Knight: What the fuck do you want this time.

Giulia: I was thinking you could help me plan the next series.

Knight: And why the hell would I want to do that?

Giulia: Well, your kids, or at least a few of them, will be involved. I thought you might like to have some say in what happens.

Knight: How about you leave my family out of it.

Giulia: But…you’re one of the favorite characters. If I don’t have you, who’s going to take your place?

Knight: Chris is a bastard. Let him do it.

Giulia: Sure, he’s menacing, but no one is like you.

Knight: Look, just make up some other character. I don’t give a shit who it is, but we’re not going to be involved.

Giulia: Well….see, the thing is, I already have you involved. I can’t just pull you guys out.

Knight: Make us go off on an extended vacation and never return.

Giulia: Could you really do that to Cap though? After all those beautiful things he said to you about being part of their family? You would just run off and leave them behind?

Knight: In a heartbeat.

Giulia: I don’t think you would. You’ve shown us that you care about everyone at Reed Security.

Knight snorts.

Knight: Give me one example.

Giulia: Okay. Well, you’re always there for Hunter. You sat in the hallway with him for weeks as he watched out for Lucy.

Knight: That’s different. I knew him from the military.

Giulia: Okay, well, how about helping Lola?

Knight: That was strictly for the sake of getting her back in the field.

Giulia: And what about Rocco?

Knight: What about him?

Giulia: Well, you look out for him and his daughter more than anyone else on the team.

Knight: That’s because he didn’t have any experience, and then he had that woman with him.

Giulia: Yes, a woman that you helped out every day. And it had nothing to do with watching out for Evie.

Knight: Whatever.

Giulia: And then there was the time during Phoenix Rising that everyone was struggling to get back on their feet. As I recall, you made a very impassioned speech about how you did everything for them because they were your family.

Knight: That was just to motivate them.

Giulia: And when you realized at Christmas that Reed Security was where you really belonged?

Knight: Are you gonna bust my balls about this for the rest of my life?

Giulia: Just until you admit that you want to be here.

Knight stands up to leave.

Giulia: We’ll see you in the next series!