Read My Mind by Natasha Preston

Author:Natasha Preston [Preston, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-05T18:30:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

Reid

I’ve been flat out all morning. This afternoon, I’m helping Faye. She’s having a rough time. It’s affecting her creativity and she can’t see the wood through the trees. Mila gave some amazing notes to the synopsis and first half, but there’s still something missing.

I’m half focused and half still recovering from dinner at Mila’s. In the end, even Archie accepted me. Mila and I sat together on the sofa laughing with her family like we’d done it a thousand times before. Then, she came home with me to read more of Hayden’s story. Now she’s waiting for the rest of it to be written so she can finish.

She cried again, and I drank until two a.m. after she left.

I let Faye in and show her to the living room. I’ve cleared my schedule to host her today. Hopefully to get her on the right track. Although she loved Mila’s notes, there’s something she’s not clicking with. Unfortunately, she has no idea what that is.

I’m hoping a fresh set of eyes over the new chapters will make it clearer where the rest should fall.

Her shoulder slump. “Thanks again for today. I just can’t get this book to work.”

Faye is another long-time author. The one she’s working on now will be my sixth with her.

“It’s fine. Make yourself comfortable, and I’ll make us a drink. What do you have?”

“Today is definitely a coffee day. Thanks.” She sits down and runs her hands over her tight black curls.

I make us both a drink then set them down in the living room.

She’s flicking through pages of her notebook.

“Let me look over that. Fresh eyes.”

Though my eyes don’t feel that fresh today.

With a frown, she thrusts it at me. “Take it, please! I’m sick of seeing nothing. I’m worried I’ve lost it.”

“You haven’t. Losing your creativity after a tragedy is common, Faye. We’ll get you back on track but try not to put a lot of pressure on yourself. There’s no pre-order for the book yet, which means we can move deadline a little more if we need to.”

“How are you not married?”

I laugh. “The girl is fresh out of a relationship.”

“God, I know exactly how that feels.”

“Okay, this is good,” I say, reading over her messy handwritten notes. “We need to build on Sophia’s motivation. Why is she trying to sabotage her best friend? But this is good.”

“Yeah, I thought that. Your bestie kissing your ex might create tension but it’s not something you usually go postal over. I just can’t think, you know?”

“That’s where I come in.”

We spend the next hour bouncing ideas back and forth. Faye makes a lot of notes, even typing up a couple of scenes while we talk. She takes a break to stretch her legs because the drive to mine took her three hours. I make another coffee, since it’s going to be a long afternoon.

When I walk back into the living toom, I take a seat and pick up her laptop to go over the latest scene.

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