Three by Kate Grey by Kate Grey

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

Chapter Five

All the next day, Kali felt Luke’s gaze on her. It was heavy and burning, like a brand.

Like a promise.

She’d woken up feeling the way you do after tying one on the night before. When you have to confront the fact that you behaved like a crazed, drunken fool.

Except that she hadn’t been drunk.

Only crazy. And foolish.

What the hell had she been thinking? She hadn’t turned the tables at all. She felt more vulnerable to Luke now, not less. She’d exposed herself to him—literally—and in the cold light of day she realized how easily he could use that against her.

She dreaded the first moment of seeing him again. The knowing look that would be in his eyes, the cocky grin that would make her shrivel up inside. Her heart tightened in her chest when she saw him downstairs at the breakfast buffet, surrounded by a small crowd of eager fans.

Last night’s dinner had been in a private dining room, and the network people had treated Luke like a professional. There’d been no gushing, no autograph seeking, no requests for photos. This morning, though, he was at the mercy of his fame, and she watched out of the corner of her eye as he handled the situation, friendly with everyone as he loaded his plate and then excusing himself politely.

His eyes met hers as he emerged from the knot of people, and he stopped short. For a moment they stared at each other, and heat rose in her cheeks until she felt almost feverish.

She wasn’t sure how long they might have stayed like that if Tom, who was sitting next to her, hadn’t called out to Luke and waved him over.

Her gaze dropped to her plate as Luke took the chair across from hers, and she played with her food as he and Tom chatted about the merits of high protein diets. She had no reason to think he was looking at her, but somehow she knew that he was.

After a few minutes Tom started a conversation with someone at the next table, and she darted a glance at Luke.

Oh, God—he was looking at her.

She dropped her eyes immediately, but it was too late. She felt the weight of his gaze, fierce and intent, and darts of awareness made her stomach muscles tighten until she had to press a hand to her belly to calm herself down.

* * *

He sat in on her first meeting of the day, where she and other show creators were discussing their latest projects. She was so distracted by his presence, by the way the nape of her neck prickled when she felt his eyes on her, that she rattled through the first part of her presentation without really focusing on what she was saying.

“…and so one of the functions of the ghosts that haunt our main characters is to represent the choices they face. Past and present. Head and heart. Dreams and reality. But the ghosts aren’t only foils for the living. I want them…some of them, anyway…to have real emotional arcs of their own.

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