Her Leading Man by Duncan Alice

Author:Duncan, Alice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, historical romance, southern california, early motion pictures, indio
Publisher: Alice Duncan

In spite of their parting words, Christina felt a blissful sense of euphoria as she went back to her room in the Desert Palm Resort. She knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that she loved Martin. The deep and profound feeling in her soul couldn’t be anything else.

And the sex had been grand, too. She hoped this would be only the first of many encounters of a like nature they would share.

As for the future . . . Well, she didn’t want to think about that right now. She was sure they could work something out. The university and Peerless were both located in Los Angeles, so there was no reason they couldn’t continue to conduct a discreet alliance without too much bother.

As much as she loved Martin, she wouldn’t give up her dreams for him.

His attitude about her ambition bothered her, although he, unlike most of the men she knew, seemed willing to consider her point of view. Bless his heart.

She felt like waltzing through the door to her room, but since her grandmother lurked on the other side, she didn’t. She was glad for her caution as soon as she opened the door.

“So there you are.”

Christina turned and saw Gran eyeing her critically. Oh dear, had she troubled to fix her hair before she’d left Martin’s room? She couldn’t remember. She didn’t have to wonder long.

“You’re a complete, mess, Christina Mayhew. What have you been doing with yourself? If you’ve given yourself to that slimy actor fellow, I may just have to thrash you.”

The notion of her tiny grandmother thrashing the tallish Pablo Orozco would have been amusing if Christina didn’t feel so guilty. Although why she should feel guilty, she had no idea. Lifting her chin, she reminded herself that men had sexual affairs all the time. Even married men conducted affairs on the side, the rats.

Determined to brazen her way through this encounter, she said in a voice that might have been a little louder than it needed to be, “I would never touch that actor fellow, as you like to call him, in a million years.”

Her grandmother’s eyes shone like black glass beads. Christina felt like a coward when she turned to close the door and say, “Martin Tafft and I have decided to—” To what? She really ought to have prepared a speech for this; she should have known she’d need one. “We’ve decided to . . . to see each other.”

“See each other? You see each other all the time. You didn’t need to decide to do that. Are you having an affair with him?”

As much as Christina admired her relatives, both male and female, and as much as she appreciated their open-minded attitudes toward women’s suffrage and other feminist issues, she sometimes wished they were a trifle less plainspoken. However, she wasn’t ashamed of her dealings with Martin, and she shouldn’t be shy about explaining them. Turning again and looking at her grandmother with as beady a stare as she could come up with, she said simply, “Yes.

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