Rockstar by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter [Carter, Mina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The concert was over. Zette breathed a sigh of relief as she finally made it to the after-show party, slipping through the door and snagging a glass of champagne from a circulating waiter as the speeches began.

"I'd like to announce that the ' Midsummer Night's Dream'

concert was a huge success! The phone lines are still jammed and early figures show we've smashed our original estimates," Christine Lombard, the promotions genius JJ had sent to help Zette with the concert, announced as she beamed around the room.

"So well done guys, here's to you!" She raised her glass to toast the room. A room filled, not with the high fliers who had headlined at the concert, but with 'real' people. The people who'd made it happen. Zette was an exception, being one of the headliners as well as a behind-the-scenes person.

Personally she preferred the second role. Less bullshit.

"To us!"

Zette raised her glass as the room erupted into cheers and general merriment. There was a definite party atmosphere in the air; the promised release of tension after a long, hard slog. Zette breathed a sigh of relief and allowed herself to relax a little. She was wound tighter than a spring, had been for the last week or so.

She took a sip from her glass and looked about. She was still dressed for the stage; all she'd done was lighten up the heavy makeup they had plastered on her. Her entrance had 57

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gone unnoticed for the moment, which she was glad about.

She always needed a little time after a show to wind down and let the adrenalin drain away.

Usually. Tonight she felt odd, still keyed up. Her eyes wandered over the crowded room, settling on one tall, familiar figure. JJ. She'd know those broad shoulders and that well-built body anywhere. Her tension rose another notch.

She hadn't been sure he'd make it back from the business meetings that had taken him overseas for most of the past week. Some crisis in the Middle East only he could sort out.

Pleasure filled her that he had managed it, but it was bittersweet pleasure. She snagged a table in the corner, noting the stick-insect starlet who was clinging to his arm, and his every word, with delight. Zette didn't blame her, women's eyes followed JJ wherever he went and an affair with a guy like him wasn't going to hurt any up and coming wannabe's career. Which was obviously what this girl was after and, by the way JJ leaned into her, he wasn't adverse to the idea. Her teeth worried her lower lip as she tried to ignore the two in the corner over in the other side of the room.

It was over, she was fairly sure of that. Apart from the physical distance with being abroad JJ had been distant on the phone, always too busy and rushing her off whenever she called. So she hadn't called for the last couple of days. The silence had damn near killed her. As much as she tried to kid herself that he was just busy, that he'd call, she knew he wouldn't.

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