My Sexy Rival: Stars in Their Eyes Duet (book two) by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Blakely Books

12

Jess

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I cried stupid tears all the way to the library, wiping the streaky lines of mascara roughly from my cheeks. But more leaked out, a cocktail of anger and self-loathing. I’d been greedy, and I’d been foolish, and that was a dangerous combination. I pulled into the library lot, almost toppling my scooter through my blurry, rage-y haze. When I jumped off, I caught a corner of the navy-blue dress on the metal covering of the wheel. I yanked until the fabric came free, tearing the skirt in a slash up the thigh.

Curses flew from my mouth. Enough to send truckers covering their ears.

Frustration poured through every cell in my body. Nothing was going right today, and now I’d owe Anaka a new dress. Hastily, I grabbed my backpack from under the seat, and marched inside to my changing room.

I tugged the dress over my head in one clunky motion, stopping only to wipe more wetness from my eyes. The dress was useless now, so I pressed the fabric against my face, as if I could stopper all the sadness. But I had no right to cry, no decent reason to feel so indignant. This was a job, and the job hadn’t come through as advertised. It was only money. I should know better than to cry over money.

There.

Sucking in the last of the tears, I stuffed my wig into my backpack and returned to my regular clothes. When I left the stall, I turned on the cold water in the sink and splashed some on my face. I peered into the mirror and administered a dose of much-needed self-medication: “Get yourself together, Jess. Big girls don’t cry.”

I let the bathroom door fall behind me, and was about to put Ojai Ranch as far in the rearview mirror as I could, when I heard two librarians at the front counter whispering to each other.

“You have to see these pictures. They just showed up on On the Surface a minute ago.”

My spine tingled. I stopped at the closest shelf of books, and pretended to look through the new releases as I listened.

“Oh. My. God,” the younger of the two women said, stopping at each high-pitched word to catch a breath. “They eloped!”

The floor gave out. My vision went fuzzy. Reaching for the gray metal shelf of books, I steadied myself. I’d never felt faint before, but I gripped the metal tight till the moment passed. Then I stopped pretending to listen in, and walked straight over to the counter.

“Sorry to interrupt, but I couldn’t help but overhear that someone had eloped,” I started, quickly recovering as I did my best to appear calm.

The woman smiled, and her hazel eyes lit up. This was a moment not to be missed—the delicious moment when celebrity news that surprised everyone began spreading across the Internet. She swiveled her computer monitor around to show me the site.

“Veronica Belle and Bradley Bowman eloped to Las Vegas!” She squealed. “They tied the knot literally thirty minutes ago.

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