Love for All Time by Kianna Alexander

Author:Kianna Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-06-06T13:02:01+00:00

Chapter 11

Sierra lay stretched out on the sofa Monday afternoon, watching television. She’d been home since noon, having wrapped filming for the day early, and was using her time off to binge-watch episodes of Living Single, one of her all-time favorite shows. The show, which had its original run from 1993 to 1998, explored the friendships of six young black professionals who lived in the same Brooklyn brownstone. Though she’d spent most of her acting career performing dramatic roles, she loved a good comedy.

As she listened to the on-screen exchange where Overton called Regine “Lil’ Chief Running Mouth” for what had to be the hundredth time, she burst out laughing. This show never gets old. With all the things going on in her life right now, she needed this time to just kick back, watch her favorite nineties sitcom and crack up.

Her phone, lying facedown on the coffee table, buzzed again, and she sighed. That damn thing has been buzzing all day. She’d checked the screen a few times, to be sure it wasn’t anything important. All she’d seen were a bunch of social media notifications, so she ignored them. She’d been given a reprieve in the form of a rare early wrap to filming, so she planned to take full advantage of it by unplugging from the rest of the world.

Picking the phone up, she tapped the screen, with the intent of clearing her notification tray. Instead, she opened one of the social media apps. The screen filled with tagged posts, and as she scrolled through, she felt the knot of tension forming between her shoulder blades. Every post was maligning her in some way, calling her everything from old, to ugly, to a “trash actress.” She checked her other three accounts at different social sites and found much the same thing. While she deleted the messages from her feeds and blocked or reported some of the accounts posting those awful things, she couldn’t help noticing that Mia kept appearing. Some of the posts originated from Mia’s profiles; others had simply tagged her.

She was still busy cleaning out her social media streams when the phone started buzzing in her hand. This time it wasn’t a notification, but a call, and she saw her mother’s face appear on the screen. Swiping to answer, she said, “Hey, Mommy.”

“Hi, Sugar Plum. How are you?”

Sierra smiled at the sound of her mother’s familiar greeting. “I’m doing okay, Mommy.”

“Hmm. You don’t sound like it. What’s the matter?”

In typical mom fashion, Rachel Dandridge had noticed her daughter’s sullen mood. “It’s nothing, Mommy. It’s just that I’ve been filming a lot lately and I’m really tired.”

“I see. Well, I hope you’re getting some rest.”

“I am. We wrapped filming before lunch today and I’ve been on the couch ever since.”

“Mmm-hmm. Good.” She paused. “So now that I know you’re resting, why don’t you tell me what’s really bothering you?”

She sighed. Seeing no point in being dishonest with her mother, she said, “There are some ugly things being said about me on social media right now, and it’s got me feeling a little stressed out.

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