Acting on Impulse (Silverweed Falls Book 2) by Thea Dawson

Author:Thea Dawson [Dawson, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aeroplane Media Press

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On Friday morning, Joy walked into the office thinking far more about the parade and what could go wrong than about work. She wasn’t formally taking leave until the following week, but mentally, she was already disengaged.

She greeted Taylor who was, naturally, there early and who filled her in on a couple of upcoming meetings before leaning conspiratorially over her desk. “So,” she asked, her eyes shining a little, “is it true that Chris and Vanessa Swink are engaged?”

Joy’s stomach gave a nasty lurch. “Engaged? I ... I don’t know.”

Taylor looked a little embarrassed. “I was just doing some research—real research, I swear—on him online, and there’s all this talk about Vanessa being engaged. People are speculating that it’s Chris. Everyone said they were dating while they were making Galactic Crusaders.”

“Hm.” Joy looked at the paper coffee cup in her hand and tried to sound disinterested. “He hasn’t said anything about it to me. I’ll ask next time I see him.”

When she reached the sanctuary of her own office, Joy shut the door. She quickly googled Vanessa Swink and was greeted with photos of a gorgeous, grinning brunette sporting an ostentatious diamond ring and a cheeky wink.

“Who’s the Lucky Man?” asked one headline. “Someone Bought Vanessa a Ring, but She Won’t Say Who,” declared another.

“Whom,” Joy muttered to herself. She took a sip of her coffee, but it was tasteless. He had been flirting with her the other night, hadn’t he? If Charlotte hadn’t come home, she was sure he would have kissed her.

But if he was engaged—

Visions of that awful photograph of Scott and Melanie on the front page of the student newspaper flooded her mind, along with all the betrayal, the hurt, the anger …

But maybe he wasn’t engaged. It was all rumor and innuendo at this stage, though as she scrolled through picture after picture of Chris standing or sitting next to Vanessa, it looked like the rumors might be well-founded.

Maybe she’d just misread the other night completely, Joy thought. It wasn’t like she’d had a lot of practice lately in dealing with men, after all. Maybe the wine was just a polite gesture, maybe she’d misinterpreted his casual friendliness for genuine interest. After all, he hadn’t done anything since then that could be even remotely considered making a pass at her …

Or maybe Chris was engaged and had been flirting with her, and he was just another lying, cheating—

She closed the browser and got up from her desk. Feeling the need to move, she began going through a stack of folders and papers that she’d been meaning to file, but she couldn’t get her mind off Chris. And Vanessa.

Vanessa Swink? Really? She was so ... so …

Joy wanted to say “trashy”—and her off-screen image certainly emphasized big hair, short skirts and high heels. But she was also twenty-seven years old, gorgeous, and one of Hollywood’s top female stars. It wasn’t fair to call her trashy, even to herself. It made her sound bitter and jealous—

No, that wasn’t right.

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