Stress & the City by Stephanie Rowe

Author:Stephanie Rowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

8

HE WAS ALREADY TWO BLOCKS from the shop by the time Cassie caught up to him in her car. The collar of his wool overcoat was pulled up over his ears, his hands shoved deep in his pockets. To say he looked annoyed would be a slight understatement.

Cassie slowed her car and rolled down the passenger window. “Why are you mad?” Of course she knew why, but this was part of the therapy. Force him to acknowledge his feelings. Someday he’d appreciate what she was doing for him.

Unless her professional sensibilities were still offkilter and she’d actually made a horrible mistake bringing him here…

“You want to know why?” Ty stopped and whirled toward the car. “What kind of a stress management therapist are you, anyway?”

“Hey!” Cassie slammed her car into Park and hopped out, racing around the car to confront Ty. “I’m a damn good one!”

“Good? You call that little display back there good? By the way, your car—”

“Your dream is to open a pizza place. Giving up your dream is stressing you out. So I’m trying to help you grab your dream so you find happiness.” Okay, she’d probably pushed him too hard. She had no choice now but to try to salvage it.

And then she’d fire herself before she could destroy anything else.

Ty glared at her, the glow from the streetlight casting spooky shadows over his face. “You know about my dream. You know I can’t act on it. And then you flaunt that I can’t have it. What kind of therapy is that?”

“It’s the first step toward successful management of your stress.” There had to be a way to make this work. She couldn’t be an utter failure at her job as well as her personal life…could she? There’d be nothing left.

“You’re wrong.”

“No, I’m not.” I’m sorry, Ty! What was that? Apologizing for upsetting a client? Since when did she feel bad when her clients got angry about their therapy? She’d made the right choice in bringing him here. Tonight had been required in order for him to heal. So what if he was irate and in denial?

Obviously, she was becoming soft. After that quality bonding time with Ty in the car, suddenly she couldn’t handle him being mad at her? His anger was of no concern whatsoever and it didn’t mean she’d made the wrong choice in bringing him here. Clients got mad at her all the time; it didn’t mean she was an incompetent fool or that she should doubt herself.

Obviously, there was a little lesson here: never be friends with your clients. It made it too difficult to cause them pain.

Phew. She felt so much better now that she had sorted out the problem. It had been a little scary there for a moment when she’d thought she was a professional failure. Granted, she was pretty much recovered from the Drew fiasco, but her ego was a tiny bit shaky, and if her business fell apart…well, that might be a tad upsetting. Just a tad.

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