Dirty Author (Dirty Series Book 5) by Sarah Bailey

Author:Sarah Bailey [Bailey, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Tree Publications
Published: 2021-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Talia

For the past two weeks, my hands had flown across the keys as the story poured out of me. One which quite possibly hit far too close to home and was much longer than any of my others, but I couldn’t help myself.

It wasn’t the one I had a cover for or anything else like that.

It’s a story I had to tell.

I sat back, staring at the screen full of text, and felt contentment for the first time in well over a month and a half. There was no doubt in my mind this was the best thing I’d ever written. It was certainly the most emotional. And I had no idea what the hell my readers would make of it.

It’s not as if I set out to write anything involving my real life. It hadn’t been part of the plan at all. But that night… the night with Duncan… it had changed so many things for me.

Thinking about him made my heart ache. The knife lodged inside twisted and made tears prick at the corners of my eyes. It was exactly why I’d buried myself in my words. Why I’d lost myself in the story so I didn’t have to face reality.

I think… no… I know I’m in love with Duncan.

He was why I’d even been able to write this book in the first place.

It was about us. At least a version of us resting in my imagination. One which had a happy ever after where Tia and Dec had admitted they were in love after being best friends for so many years and decided to make a go of it. They’d gone through a lot of turmoil in the process. And, of course, there’d been a lot of hot sex, but it was their emotional journey which got to me the most. The realisation they were it for each other.

I don’t know when it happened… or how. It just snuck up on me. These feelings. These emotions I had towards my best friend. I kept kicking myself over it because acting on them would destroy everything we shared.

Duncan didn’t do relationships. He’d had a couple of girlfriends when we’d been teenagers but they were never serious. Not once had he ever expressed a desire to settle down. He enjoyed the single life too much. Being tied down to one person didn’t suit him. Plus, he’d told me most of the girls he went out with had no brains so it’s not like he could talk to them the way he did with me.

So I wasn’t going to tell him how I felt. I wasn’t going to ruin our friendship with feelings I shouldn’t even have. It wasn’t fair of me to put that on him when all he’d done the night we slept together was help me. He couldn’t feel the same way about me. I doubted he ever looked at me as anything but a friend. I wasn’t like the usual girls he went for. And he hadn’t said anything the next day, so I doubted anything had changed for him.

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