Home Sweet Home by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2013-03-23T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lauren sat in her office, trying as hard as she could to concentrate on getting some work done. It was the first off day from filming that she had had, and if she didn't get this work done now, who knew when she would have another chance? Things were already getting out of control at her small, one-person real estate agency – and she'd only been doing this job for a week.

The problem was, Lauren didn't like entrusting important things to other people. She did have a receptionist, but it was not that receptionist's job to deal with anything real estate related. She was a nice girl, part-time, who answered the phone, handled filing, and got clients coffee while they waited for Lauren. Certainly not someone that Lauren could fully depend on when she was out of the office for long stretches of time.

So it was really important, then, that Lauren use any blocks of time that she had free from filming to their best advantage as far as catching up on her real estate work. Already, she had received a call from an appraiser letting her know that she had missed an appointment that they had had set. It was so unlike Lauren to miss an appointment that the man had actually assumed that it was his mistake, that he had written down the date and time wrong, and was actually just calling to find out the correct date and time so that he could put it into his planner.

Lauren did feel, however, that she could get past these growing pangs in her business – both her real estate business and the television business – and learn to manage them both equally successfully, if she could only focus. Focus was the key.

However, focus was the one thing she couldn't seem to maintain. Focus on her work, that is. The issue was that she was highly focused on something besides work – namely, Ben.

If she was honest with herself, the truth was she had been distracted by Ben from pretty much the moment she had met him. That distraction had taken the form of annoyance, but now she saw that the irritation she had felt had merely been her brain's way of directing her attention toward Ben.

Now, the distraction was taking a new and more painful turn. All she could think about was the ball last night, how handsome he had looked, how dashing, how she wished that she had been there with him – and how he completely ignored her the entire night.

Questions plagued her.

Where had he gone when he left the night before?

Did he leave with Kelly?

Why didn't he talk to her?

Was he angry with her?

Was he hurt?

Was he trying to prove a point?

Was she being dramatic to think that he was intentionally ignoring her, and in fact it was as simple as – he just didn't care if she was there or not?

And the shallowest of all the questions – how was it possible that he

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