The Trip (A Fast Break Romance) by Staley Deborah Grace

Author:Staley, Deborah Grace [Staley, Deborah Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Deborah Grace Staley
Published: 2011-09-07T21:00:00+00:00

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The next morning, Carlo picked me up and took me to the studio for an interview with a very handsome anchor on a national morning news program. When we arrived, I thought I would have to be sedated just to calm down enough to get out of the car.

Carlo sat with me in the limousine for some time, talking with me, telling me what to expect. If it hadn't been for the soothing effect he had and his total confidence in me, I wouldn't have been able to do it. His mere presence gave me the extra boost of confidence I needed to make it through the ordeal.

Strange that a man who put all my senses on full alert could possibly have a calming effect. I'd never thought of myself as lacking confidence. I'd been raised to believe I could do anything I set my mind to. But all this? It was just so far out of my realm of experience. Nothing like my life in Podunk, Mississippi. I was glad to have Carlo with me, and at the same time, I was a wreck.

Any normal person would feel insecure next to such perfection. The man was flawless. The women in the studio had a fit. I thought I would have to do CPR on the make-up girl. The female anchor of the show positively fawned over him. Meanwhile, the guy interviewing me spent a considerable amount of time trying to wrangle an interview from Carlo. I would have felt insignificant if Carlo hadn't made me feel ten feet tall. Like there was no one more special to him than me. He kept steering the topic of conversation back to me and my successes as an author. In fact, he refused to discuss himself at all. I thought it was the nicest thing anyone could have ever done for me.

After I made my appearance at the bookstore, we went directly to the airport where we boarded Carlo's private plane and flew to upstate New York. His 'cottage in the country' turned out to be a twenty-room, turn of the century manor on forty acres in the Catskills.

We spent the day doing absolutely nothing other than enjoying our surroundings and one another. We went horseback riding, picnicked by a waterfall, and talked. After spending so much time talking the night before and that day, I thought we had surely exhausted all avenues of conversation. But the more we learned about each other, the more we seemed to have to say.

We were loath to return to the city, but duty called. Back at his 'cottage', Carlo had thoughtfully arranged for someone to do my hair and make-up. After I'd finished dressing in a fitted dark green strapless formal with a matching velvet jacket, I went downstairs and found him staring into a cozy fire in the drawing room. He was fabulous in a dark tuxedo. Well, more fabulous than usual.

"I'm ready."

He turned and looked at me. The intensity of his gaze unnerved me, but I somehow managed to look into his dark eyes without melting into the Aubusson.

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