A Mind of Her Own by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2025-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Alex was back in the Society office by then, and Melanie asked her where she ate.

“The cafeteria. I didn’t want to be late getting back.”

“I forgot to warn you about the Crime boys. They’re right across the hall, and they’re all nuts, and go after anything in a skirt.” Alex smiled at the description.

“I met two of them.”

“They’re all the same. They’re the randiest guys in the building. They act like they haven’t seen a woman in years. Some of them are fun. They report on the worst crime scenes in the city. I think it makes them a little nuts.” Alex had experienced it firsthand, and didn’t mind. Melanie showed her where everything was then, since they had a little time before the three editors came back from lunch.

When they did, the big news that afternoon was a major film star who had been caught at a hotel for a weekend tryst with a famous socialite, who happened to be married, and his wife was filing for divorce. It was the hot story of the hour. And the canceled Patterson/Argyle wedding instantly became old news, sank beneath the waters of the society column, and vanished. The heartbroken bride was no longer of interest. Alex heard later that the groom had dumped the bride to go back to his ex-girlfriend, whose father was offering him a million dollars to marry her, and he needed the money. There were no secrets in the offices of the society column, and all the juiciest social news in the city was grist for their mill.

All the women in the Society office left at five. The girls at the front of the office were single, and of the three editors, two were divorced, and one had never married—Sylvia, Melanie said, was the mistress of a very wealthy married man, and she kept him by knowing all of his secrets.

Alex’s head was spinning as she walked back to her hotel. She had been running all day. None of it was serious journalism, but it was fascinating. The society column was the spice that women loved in the newspaper. Sports and finance kept the men happy, and Alex wondered if anyone really cared about the news. It was very different from her grandfather’s thorough, deep, and at times philosophical reports of world news. His was a high-quality brand of journalism, whereas this was fare for everyone, whatever their tastes or interests. She smiled, remembering her exchange with the two Crime reporters. But doubtless theirs was grim work, and they needed a little levity to balance it.

She fell asleep at nine o’clock that night. And the next day was more of the same. She ate at the cafeteria again, and ran into Sam. He invited her into the room to meet some of his coworkers, and before she could stop him, he had guided her into the room full of male reporters. They looked at her like hungry lions having a piece of meat waved at them, and she escaped as soon as she could.

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