Celebrity by Sienna Snow

Author:Sienna Snow [Snow, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948756006
Publisher: Sienna Snow
Published: 2018-05-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Will you answer a question for me?” Carol asked as she poured me a glass of iced tea.

I nodded. “Yes, ma’am.”

After leaving the senator and his sons in the library, Carol, Jacinta, and I had decided to have a drink and snacks on the back deck of the house.

Jacinta and Carol had created a giant spread of cookies, tea sandwiches, and pastries, even laying out a white lacy cotton tablecloth on the patio table for our yummy fare.

I could tell both women were visibly shaken by what had transpired and needed something to take their minds off the argument.

I’d tried to help, but they only shooed me away, saying they had everything under control.

“Why do you want to run? Don’t pretend you haven’t decided. I know when someone’s put their name into the arena of politics.”

I had waited for someone to ask me that question and I could always trust Carol to go to the source for anything she wanted to know.

“I want to run because no one expects it of someone like me.” Carol pursed her lips at my response, making me clarify what I meant. “I don’t fit the mold. When it comes to spending, I’m conservative. When it comes to social issues, I’m liberal. There are a lot of incumbents who feel threatened by people like me because of my appeal to the centrists.”

Especially the man I’d go up against in the election.

Senator Anthony Sanders was a person who’d dismissed me the first time we’d met at a charity fundraiser. He’d barely paid attention to anything I had to say, and I happened to be the main speaker for the evening. He’d treated me like a cute, pretty face. Then had the nerve to turn to a junior attorney in my firm to ask his opinion of the very topic I’d brought up. It wasn’t until the emcee had introduced me that he’d realized his mistake in dismissing me.

That was the day I’d realized this man had to go.

“Aren’t you afraid about your privacy and how everyone will react to your relationship with Devin? I know your potential opponent. He views his job as a career and he will pull every trick in the book to keep it. What Richard said is true. I’m not saying it’s right, but your opponent will use your pain as a way to elevate his position. He’ll shame you into hiding.”

As a wife of a politician, I guessed Carol had seen and heard more than she would ever let on. Her insight wasn’t anything I hadn’t learned for myself.

“I don’t have a choice but to face Sanders head-on, no matter what he throws my way. The day I became a celebrity attorney was the day my privacy started walking out the door. Clint just pushed it to a level I never anticipated.”

“That’s an understatement,” Jacinta added and lifted her glass to her lips.

“Excuse me, miss. My career path is your fault. You’re the one who introduced me to Representative Jones and suggested I’d be the best attorney for her case.

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