Have to Have It (21 page)

No. That would be stupid. Maybe she was asking too much of Tom, too soon. Maybe it was just his overwhelming good
looks and attractiveness to other girls—men—everyone!—that made her want clear parameters from him.

Then, in that moment on the phone with Jorge, it was as if the clouds parted and she finally saw something important about herself. She had a bad habit: she wanted guys to define relationships for her, when the truth was that she needed to define them for herself. As much as she liked Tom, as much as she was attracted to him, if he wasn't ready for her, she definitely wasn't ready to be tied down to him.

“Kiley, are you still there?” Jorge's voice pulled her out of her musings.

She answered, firmly and clearly: “Yes. And I would love to go out with you.”

Raised in Bel Air, Melody Mayer is the oldest daughter of a fourth-generation Hollywood family and has outlasted countless nannies.

Published by Delacorte Press
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales
is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2006 by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayer, Melody.
Have to have it: a nannies novel / by Melody Mayer.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Kylie, Esme, and Lydia continue their friendship as they work
in Hollywood as nannies and try to make some decisions about the boys
in their lives.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49698-0
[1. Nannies—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction.
4. Beverly Hills (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M4619Hav 2006
[Fic]—dc22
2005036531

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