The Right Twin For Him (O'Rourke Family 2) by Julianna Morris Read Free Book Online

so many others had failed.
    “Mr. O’Rourke, I’m sorry about the time,” Miss Finney said when she spotted him. “But Maddie and I have been talking.”
    Maddie wrinkled her nose and shook her head. “Candy is being nice, but I was late. Are you going to fire me, Patrick?”
    He was insane to hire her in the first place, but firing was out of the question. It wasn’t just a matter of helping Maddie, it was being there for his brother and Beth, the way Kane had always been there forthe rest of the family. Kane deserved to have someone else step up to the plate and take responsibility. There hadn’t been many opportunities, and Patrick couldn’t miss this one.
    “No.” Patrick forced a smile. “You’re not fired. Come along, and I’ll show you the station. Then you can talk to Stephen Traver. He’s the head of the advertising and promotions department. He’ll be your supervisor.”
    Actually, department was a grand name for two employees who sold radio ads and managed the radio prize giveaways. The business was doing much better since a successful promotion that summer. Patrick had thought of offering a “date with a billionaire” as a prize, with his brother as the billionaire in question. The whole thing ended with Kane marrying the prize-winner—Beth—and the radio station benefiting from the excitement and publicity generated by their romance.
    Now Patrick had to keep things moving. People were listening to the station, but it was mostly a fad, and they could stop as quickly as they’d started. It wasn’t that he was in competition with Kane, he just wanted to make it on his own. There were too many people who assumed he was sliding through life on his wealthy brother’s coattails, and the messes he’d gotten into as a teenager didn’t help that image.
    “What kind of music do you play here?” Maddie asked as they walked down the hall.
    “What kind of…” Patrick stared. “Are you serious?”
    She gave him an innocent look. “You never mentioned it when we talked about a job. But I don’tsuppose it matters. Selling advertising is mostly talking so fast they don’t have time to say no.”
    Well, if anyone could talk fast and bewilder a reluctant businessman, it would be Maddie. “We’re a country music station,” he said as severely as possible. “Do you know anything about country?”
    “I’m from Slapshot, New Mexico, what do you think?”
    Patrick didn’t have a clue about Slapshot. He had never even heard of the place before meeting Maddie. “Do you know anything about country music? ” he repeated with a patience he didn’t feel.
    Her eyes rolled. “Slapshot is in the Magdalena Mountains, over two hours from Albuquerque, and generally considered to be in the middle of nowhere. The only radio station we get is so ‘country’ they won’t even play songs with steel guitars in them.”
    Somehow, that didn’t reassure Patrick. “Sounds great,” he lied. “You know all about it, then.”
    “Enough. Besides, how much do you have to know to sell air on the radio? I mean, it’s air. ”
    He opened his mouth an instant before he saw the laughter lurking in Maddie’s golden-brown eyes. Apparently, she wasn’t quite as dizzy as her runaway mouth made her sound.
    “Has anyone told you what a pill you are?” Patrick asked, both amused and irritated. He had as good a sense of humor as anyone, but the station was important to him. Every penny he owned was invested in the place.
    “Everyone from my parents to my fourth-grade teacher.”
    “ That I can believe.”
    She wrinkled her nose and grinned up at him. Mostpeople were intimidated by “the boss,” but he supposed she didn’t have experience with intimidation since she’d worked for her mother back in Slapshot. Actually, Maddie probably wasn’t intimidated by anything except a slimeball fiancé who thought her breasts weren’t big enough for him. It must have been an awful blow to her self-confidence, especially for