Wanted: An Interesting Life by Bev Katz Rosenbaum

Author:Bev Katz Rosenbaum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

10

December

THAT WAS IT, Lou vowed after her night out with Jake. No more erotic shrimp feedings, no more close dances. She’d practically run into her apartment when Jake had dropped her off. She was determined to maintain the status quo. She couldn’t—wouldn’t—let him distract her from her quest, though remaining undistracted was becoming increasingly difficult.

Which reminded her that the search for inner peace was a major component of any quest. She certainly hadn’t been doing a very good job in the relaxation department, Lou thought, suddenly determined to make herself a more centered person. Now that she’d landed an agent, she could afford to take a short rest and concentrate for a while on her inner self. But she definitely needed help from the pros.

And so it was that one day in December, at a New Age bookstore downtown, she dutifully stocked up on some titles, though most of the ones she ended up coming home with had more to do with finding a suitable romantic partner than achieving inner peace.

The first opus was written by the current guru to stars with one name. A quick skim revealed that Bodhi—he, too, had only one name—was less interested in the eastern philosophies he claimed to hold dear than in standard western—i.e., Californian New Age-y—crap. He had a very complicated system of figuring out one’s aura color and matching it to a complimentary aura color.

Auras, the voice in her head said scoffingly. Strictly for amateurs. You still don’t see it, do you?

Hello, Gigi. And how are you?

Hello, Lou. I’m fine, thank you. I don’t need to ask you how you are because I’ve been watching you for months now and I’ve seen how all your little experiments have turned out. What I’ve seen is that you haven’t enjoyed anything you tried on your own—except for creating me, of course—but you have enjoyed everything that Jake’s introduced you to.

But I’ve only just scratched the surface. I haven’t done half the things I want to try. And I’ve told you a million times, I’m not willing to start something with Jake. You’ve told me I don’t listen to my heart. Maybe not, but I am listening to something inside me—something telling me it’s not the right time. Maybe it’s my brain I’m listening to rather than my heart, but right now, that’s what’s speaking louder to me.

She forced her attention back to the pile of self-help books, grabbing one of those You-are-like-the-she-wolf type things. Reading between the lines, Lou deduced that the she-wolf who wrote the thing thought that the she-wolves reading the thing should mate not with he-wolves, but with other she-wolves, which wasn’t Lou’s cup of tea, though she cared not a whit if other she-wolves felt that particular urge. And so it was on to another book.

Which put forth an interesting theory about one’s physical condition being inexorably linked to one’s inner state. The author, a blond Californian, was particularly enthusiastic about yoga as a “system of refining the body, the mind and the spirit in unison, ultimately leading to well-being, peace and bliss.

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