Dating the Cowboy by Ann B. Harrison

Author:Ann B. Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781950510955
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Are you kidding me?” Alice tried to understand what Crease was saying. “A photographer and an assistant? Here? For us?”

He nodded.

“Makeup and clothing? The whole freaking deal?”

“That’s what they said. They’ll be here tomorrow by noon.”

Alice dropped into her chair, her face pale, eyes wide and terrified. “Look at me.”

“I don’t understand the problem. You look like Alice. I like what I see.”

He shrugged and she wanted to throw her computer mouse at him. Guys never got it. The panic, the fear that if she had a hair out of place or her eyeliner on crooked she’d be judged by whoever saw the article and shamed for eternity. Who could live that down? Certainly not Alice. The world had turned very judgmental and Alice hated that. It made her glad that, as a nerdy girl, she leaned more to the introverted side of personality orders.

Crease never worried about stuff like that, and he loved her without makeup, insisting she was perfect au natural. He never saw that side of social media because he never went on it, claimed he wanted to live in the real world. He never saw the nasty side of the internet, the judgy side that brought out all the bullies.

Besides, he was gorgeous no matter how much or how little time he took with his preparation. Girls could never get away with little or no preparation.

And there was the whole public persona Alice liked to avoid. The video interview was one thing and might never go to air, but to do a photo shoot that showed everyone who she was would be putting herself out where she didn’t want to be. She liked sitting behind her computer where nobody saw her. It was her thing. Anonymous and out of reach. Thank goodness she only trawled social media sites, rarely posted on them. Looked like she was going to get way more visibility thanks to the interview, more would be the pity. Images of hundreds of notifications commenting on her makeup and hair failures whizzed through her mind.

“Surely they got enough footage they can use.”

Crease screwed up his mouth in the cute way that usually meant he didn’t agree. “Apparently not what they were after. They said something about it being a spread in the magazines, something about syndicating it or something so they wanted styled shots. I don’t really understand all that stuff.”

“What?” she squeaked. Her heart went into overdrive and she gasped for breath. There went her anonymity.

Crease grabbed her shoulder. “Hey, calm down. You look like you’re going to pass out or something.”

“I might.” She took a moment to try to slow her heart, but it was no good. “Do you not understand what syndicating a magazine article means?”

“Nope.”

“It means, Crease, that we could be in every single magazine in America.”

“Shit.”

“Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Why on earth would they do that? We’re a small-town dating business, not some flashy big chain company.”

He pulled his chair around and sat down, his face paling somewhat. “But this is amazing.

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