Impulse Control (Entangled Indulgence) (Men of the Zodiac) by Amanda Usen

Author:Amanda Usen [Usen, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Indulgence, Entangled, Zodiac, Romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-01-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Russ woke in his hotel room exactly as he’d fallen asleep, hard as a rock and thinking of Susannah. He grabbed his phone. Anticipation zinged through him when he saw a text from her. He clicked the link and grinned in triumph. He knew she’d have to respond to his media pokes. One Wild Weekend…

He started reading, immediately drawn in by her conversational writing style. He could almost hear her warm laugh in his mind and imagine her bright smile. Good God, he could almost smell coffee brewing and breakfast cooking, and he’d only read the first paragraph.

I spent the week before the trip watching Russ’s show. I knew who he was, of course, but I’d spent the last few years trying to get a marriage off the ground and raising a baby. You all probably know by now what happened to the marriage. (Thank goodness the baby is still amazing.) Anyway, I haven’t watched much TV lately, and after my In the Wild marathon, I was terrified. What did he have in store for me?

A mountain, as it turned out. On snowshoes. At fifteen degrees. I wanted to crawl into a snowbank, make a hole, and hide. I haven’t gotten a full night’s sleep in fourteen months. I’m a single mother with a full-time job. I don’t work out because I’m scared I’ll fall asleep on the treadmill and get rolled underneath. And Russ Donovan challenged me to climb a mountain.

And I did.

It may have only been a New York mountain, small in the scope of the world, but it was big to me, and I feel transformed. If I can climb a mountain, what else can I do? What an amazing feeling!

I’m grateful for the gifts this wild weekend brought me, even though I was cold, tired, eating canned soup, and expecting to find spiders in the outhouse. Transformation doesn’t come without effort and suffering, I suppose. At least, that’s what I’m going to tell the Wild Man when it’s time to film At Home in my kitchen next month. :-) I hope he’s ready to put on an apron!

He couldn’t resist. He reached for his phone and shot her a text.

I promise to be prepared for whatever you have in mind.

He waited. Bubbles appeared, telling him she was typing. They vanished and then popped up again. His anticipation grew and then burst when the bubbles disappeared and stayed gone, making him acutely aware of how much he’d been looking forward to her response. Not good.

What the hell was he thinking? He couldn’t pursue Susannah. Despite what had happened over the weekend, she wasn’t the fling type, and he’d vowed never to leave anyone waiting for him back home. It wasn’t fair to have a relationship when he took so many risks. He knew firsthand how much it hurt to lose a loved one. Bitter loss burned in his gut. He was heading into a whole week filled with reminders.

Susannah’s blog post had neatly shifted the focus from the scandalous sound bites to the heart of the show.

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