Dare to Stay by Georgia Beers

Author:Georgia Beers [Beers, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, lesbian, romance, Adult, Animal Shelter, Businesswoman, Femme-Femme, Workplace, Stuck Together, Animals, Enemies to Lovers
ISBN: 9780996677462
Amazon: B01N7G87C4
Publisher: Brisk Press
Published: 2016-12-08T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Thursday dawned gray and rainy. Foggy. A little chilly. Very much like Sydney’s mood.

She’d woken up with a pounding headache, probably from lack of sleep, since she’d done nothing more than lie there in her bed, eyes open, thoughts swirling. At 3 a.m., she’d hopped onto her computer, having given up completely on even dozing, and checked on some of the reels she’d sent out. There was a reply in her inbox from a channel in Austin that asked her a few questions. She’d typed up a response, but left it in her draft folder, figuring she’d better proof it when she wasn’t bleary-eyed and when her brain wasn’t taken up with something altogether not about work.

Last night had been so good. And then so bad. How she’d let it go from one to the other so quickly was beyond her. She replayed and analyzed and dissected and came up empty. All she could think was that she needed to be much more careful because she had been this close to making out with Jessica Barstow last night and that would have been bad on so many levels.

Mostly one, she thought as they pulled into a parking spot at Junebug Farms. Mixing her work and her personal life was just bad judgment. Unprofessional, not to mention unethical. A reporter had to stay neutral. And yes, it was just a telethon, not a damning or exonerating interview, but still. Someday it would be hard-hitting journalism, and she didn’t want her behavior on some fluff piece from her past to come back to haunt her. Neutral was key. She’d let it go further than she should have last night, but the bottom line was that she’d stopped it. Right? That was the important part. Not how much she’d wanted that kiss—God, had she wanted that kiss—but that she’d stopped it before things went way beyond complicated. Determined that she’d made the right decision, she slid out of the Channel Six van and saw Anna St. John entering the front door of Junebug Farms. Luckily, Anna didn’t see her, and that was a good thing because Sydney wasn’t quite ready to deal with her yet. Not on top of everything else.

“How do I get myself into these situations?” she asked softly.

“What situations?” Connor asked, his eyes never leaving his tablet. “Telethons? News vans? Having a near-debilitating crush on your producer?” He looked up then and winked at her, the lenses of his glasses showing a subtle mist.

“Ha ha. Not quite.” Sydney shouldered her bag and turned to walk with Connor toward the shelter, the crew to follow behind.

“Okay, today we’ll rehearse the live stuff, give Jessica a few chances to wing it, see how she feels. Yeah?”

Sydney nodded her agreement and let out a small sigh.

“Everything all right?” Connor asked and Sydney genuinely appreciated his concern. She did her best to give him a small smile.

“Yes. Everything’s fine.” Business. This is business. Three more days and she would be done with this. But the real question remained: could she get Jessica out of her head? Last night had surprised her.

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