Kitty Valentine Dates a Rock Star by Dodd Jillian

Author:Dodd, Jillian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chick Lit
Publisher: Swoonworthy Books
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“I know how out of touch this is going to sound.” I lean in across the table, pushing aside two empty glasses. His glasses which once contained whiskey. He’s on his third already, and I don’t think we’ve been at this bar for more than twenty minutes.

He’s good and determined to drink himself into a stupor tonight.

And here I am, feeling like maybe I should’ve gone home. He’s not in any mood for company even though he’s insisted that he wants to be with me.

He looks at me finally, having stared down into his glass ever since our server left it for him. Poor thing. It was pretty obvious she wanted to catch his eye, to flirt a little, but he’s not in the mood.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t understand why you think tonight was such a bad performance.”

He rolls his eyes.

“I really don’t,” I add. “You sounded great to me! The audience was thrilled to pieces. They had nothing but good things to say afterward.”

“Were we at the same club? Because from where I sat, the audience had zero energy. One of them straight-up walked out, Kitty.”

“So what? It was just one person, and she was being a total bitch about it. And let me tell you, I never use that word, but I think she qualifies. I hope she’s embarrassed by how rude she was.”

“You’re really too much.” He snorts. “You live in this world where people are actually nice to each other. Where they respect each other.”

“Excuse me, but that is the world I live in. Where people are supposed to respect each other. Some people are going to be jerks. It is what it is. I stopped reading my reviews a long time ago because I knew they would never do me any good. They would only make me question myself. Believe me, I know how nasty people can be. But that doesn’t mean all people are like that, and it doesn’t mean your entire performance was a waste because one person was an idiot.”

“Unless you’ve been walked out on, you don’t know what I’m talking about.” He swirls the whiskey in his glass, snickering. “Trust me, that writer was paying attention. He’ll write about that part.”

“Yeah, I’m sure they were paying attention to how that situation reflected a lot more on the person who did the walking out than it did on you. You didn’t even let it faze you. It wasn’t your fault! And it doesn’t erase all the people who were clapping and cheering for you by the time the night was over.”

“You’d be surprised what some people remember. That writer’s going to remember that, and he’s going to mention it in his article. I just know he will. Another example of how I’ll never escape the past.”

I probably shouldn’t say this. It’s not what he wants to hear right now. At the same time, I’m not sitting here at yet another bar just so I can bolster his spirits. I would do that for Hayley.

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