Falling Stars by Tanya Stowe

Author:Tanya Stowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781522301011
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2018-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

7

Sunny adjusted her headset, pushing the mic away so she could speak to her assistant. “Amanda, can you check on Brittany’s makeup? It sounds as if she’s about to have a meltdown.”

Amanda nodded and took off, her petite, black-clad body weaving in and out of workers and equipment like a slinky animal after prey.

The youngest of the contestants on the program, Brittany needed the most coaching and consoling. The young girl had been a pain to work with, and Brody hadn’t helped. As her mentor, he’d talked her up, made her over-confident, and now she needed constant reassurance. Sunny couldn’t help feeling that if Jackson had been the girl’s go-to celebrity, she’d be on a better track.

Jackson. The mere thought of him made her smile. They’d been working together now for weeks. Rumors of a work place romance were the last thing either of them wanted, so they’d kept their encounters low key: an occasional lunch with other coworkers, and a few quiet meetings behind closed doors. Between Jackson’s studio sessions and Sunny’s work gearing up for the first taping of the show, there’d been little time for them to see each other outside of work, but that first weekend shimmered in her mind like a scene in a perfect glass snowball.

The smell of bacon triggered visions of Jackson teasing Dorothy. His smile from across the room brought back the sensation of his lips on hers. And that kiss…! Weeks later, the memory still made her tingle.

Everything about that weekend had a golden glow. Time hadn’t dimmed her wonder. Something wonderful was just around the corner. She could feel it. Sense it. That unrelenting excitement thrilled her and frightened her at the same time. But she was content to let it stay “just around the corner.”

For some reason, she hadn’t told Jackson about her father’s infidelities. Toward the end of her parents’ marriage, her father had slept with one woman after another, and each new fling broke her mother’s heart a little more.

Most of her mother’s tearful outbursts came after witnessing her father’s blatant affairs. Sunny was so young she probably shouldn’t have understood what was going on, but she did. Every heart wrenching moment when her father appeared with a new woman was etched on her memory like a cut across her skin.

Her pastor had helped her recognize her father’s lack of esteem. The minister’s explanation made sense. Long before the affairs began, Sunny’s dad deemed himself unworthy of his wife’s love and subconsciously sought to prove his own lack of merit. Sunny remembered him saying, many times, that he was no good for her mother.

Still, his infidelity was painful to Sunny. Each and every affair meant a rejection of her and her mother, of the love they’d shared as a family…of those treasured moments when he’d kiss her mother’s hand on his shoulder and turned to look for Sunny.

As much as she appreciated Jackson reminding her of good times, those memories also proved to her that love was fickle.

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