Stars in Their Eyes by Pema Donyo

Author:Pema Donyo
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Crimson Romance

Chapter Five

Iris had read a script once about a man who wanted to travel the world in a ship. His wife sold everything she owned to allow him to afford it. Once he bought the ship, he sailed off without her. The director had found it all terribly funny and offered Iris the role of the wife’s servant, with the important task of selling all the wife’s items.

No wonder her father had disapproved of how she’d spent her time.

When she first returned to her hotel, she wasn’t sure what to do with Owen’s story. Half of her considered throwing it into a drawer and forgetting about it, especially after how cold he’d acted toward her. It was like a complete change had come over him while she’d been dancing with Scott. One moment she’d sworn Owen was flirting with her, and the next moment he couldn’t wait to be rid of her. It was as embarrassing as being invited to a callback audition only to be rejected for good. She had deluded herself into thinking he might still care.

But his story burned a hole in her drawer and her mind. Seconds ticked by on the clock. Curiosity kept her tossing beneath her sheets even while she closed her eyes. After nearly an hour of inventing endless possibilities of what it could be about, she went to her hotel’s living room and opened the drawer. She would read just the first page, enough to satisfy her curiosity. That would be enough to send her to sleep. Yet the first page’s sentence continued onto the second page, and the second page’s paragraph continued onto the third. Before long, she found herself on the last.

Slivers of sunlight dappled across her floor. No use trying to sleep anymore. She made herself a hot cup of coffee and settled against her mohair sofa, the pages of his work scattered before her on the low table. She gathered them and fanned the pages out as she sipped from her cup. Scott was right; Owen was an excellent writer. His style was clear and concise. His language held no trace of the flowery Romantic poets she used to read. In his story, every word belonged.

She warmed her hands around the mug as she watched the sun rise over Paris. Its rich amber hues coated grey buildings and softened their hard edges. Wispy white curtains framed her window and blew into the room, giving a dreamy effect to her suite. A group of pigeons cooed as they settled onto the windowsill, reminding her of the early hour. She should be rehearsing lines, not reading a story.

The premise was simple. A man and woman meet. He falls in love. The woman possesses a lifelong dream to touch the stars. The man buys her a ladder, and the woman climbs the ladder, only to realize that it’s not high enough to reach the sky. Next, the man builds her a tower. The woman makes it to the top of the tower and, to her dismay, she still cannot reach the stars.

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