Marriage Reunited by Jessica Hart

Author:Jessica Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

HAVING made her decision, Georgia should have felt better, but somehow it didn’t work that way. She was constantly on tenterhooks, waiting for Mac to come and tell her that he was leaving, and every time he appeared in the newsroom she would steel herself to get through the conversation that never happened.

Because Mac just carried on exactly as before. He turned up in the newsroom the next day, and proceeded to discuss the day’s assignments with her as if nothing whatsoever had happened. Georgia didn’t have the nerve to ask him when he was thinking of leaving. She couldn’t face another conversation like the one they had had over coffee by the river. She just wished that he would make up his mind and let her know one way or the other so that she could stop being grouchy and get on with her life.

In the end, she got fed up with waiting. She couldn’t put her life on hold until Mac deigned to inform her what he planned to do, so she was just going to have to get on with it.

As before, Georgia found solace in work. Oddly enough, after her initially negative response to the lollipop lady story, it was feedback from the editorial she’d written about Mavis Blunt that helped her the most. As a result of what she had written, letters came pouring in with suggestions of other unsung heroes and heroines in the community.

Georgia was so touched by some of the stories that she instigated a regular feature and called it Meet the Stars. Mac took a series of wonderful portraits that she was sure could form the basis for an exhibition one day, and Cassie was enthusiastic about the interviews, gaining enough confidence to begin suggesting other ideas for features.

Very gradually, the editorial conference became more animated, with other suggestions for stories being put forward. Some were so off-beam that Georgia boggled privately and avoided Mac’s eyes, but she was careful not to ridicule any contributions.

She was pleased that the staff were feeling more committed to the Gazette. She suspected that a lot of the change in atmosphere was to do with Mac, whose photographs had already attracted notice, but she was working quietly on the design too, so that the paper began to look subtly different. It would be too much to say that she was feeling excited by what was happening, but at least her plan to transform the Gazette into an innovative example of local journalism at its best didn’t seem quite as unattainable as it had before.

Before Mac arrived, a little voice inside Georgia would point out, but she would always push the thought aside. It was hard enough trying to ignore Mac’s constant, vivid presence without having to give him credit for the very changes which were helping her to cope with it.

The atmosphere in the newsroom might have improved, but it was still not exactly chummy, and conversations tended to be stilted—at least with her. Nobody seemed to have any problem chatting away to Mac, she couldn’t help noticing.

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