One More Promise by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Looking back, Paige could say with great certainty that things changed between her and Dylan the day he came and apologized for skipping out on their lunch date.

And not for the better.

Two weeks later, Paige felt the strain and knew he was feeling it too.

Their work schedules were crazy even though Ariel was back at work. Somehow Paige ended up taking on a lot more responsibility—more than usual—and Ariel’s latest idea was a big benefit concert. There was no way Paige was getting involved with that mess. Her temper was short, her nerves were frayed, and Dylan’s sudden obsession with his image and getting the band back in the public eye was making her want to scream.

At every Literacy Now event or function they went to, he managed to turn it into a self-promotion event for himself and his band. At first, Paige had to focus to realize what he was doing—like he was so smooth about it most people might not notice the plugs he managed to slide into his talks.

But she noticed.

And she didn’t particularly like it.

Not that she was against Dylan being excited about his work with Shaughnessy. She wasn’t. What she was against was Dylan using their time with Literacy Now to promote his music, and not literacy and the importance of reading.

Like right now, she thought, they were at a regional library outside of LA, and Dylan was supposed to talk about the different library programs and get the kids excited about them. But was he? No. Right now he was answering questions about life in a rock band. She could reason that he was building a relationship with the kids in the crowd, so when he did mention the library programs, they’d be willing to listen to him and take his advice. Looking at the clock, however, she knew they were almost out of time, and if he didn’t do an immediate change of subject, there was no way he’d get to the pertinent information.

It wasn’t easy to get his attention, but she managed to snag it for a second and held up the library brochure and waved it at him in hopes of him getting the message and leaving his riveting band talk in favor of his love of reading.

“So what I’m saying, kids, is you need to have an interest in the arts. Whether it’s playing an instrument or drawing or painting or writing, you need to find where your passion is and go for it,” Dylan was saying, and Paige started to relax.

“Like I did when I figured out that I wanted to play the guitar,” he went on, and she groaned, her head falling forward as she cursed him. Why now? Why, when they were so close to the entire campaign going national, did he have to go rogue? Seriously, why?

A loud round of applause burst out all around her, and she knew he’d missed giving out the real information. Jumping up, she ran to the front of the room before anyone could leave and immediately began talking as loud as she could.

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