Press Release by Leslie O'Sullivan
Author:Leslie O'Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781648983160
Publisher: City Owl Press
Chapter 11
Good Business
We follow the hallway branch leading to the ocean-view rooms of the hotel. Cian swipes the keycard and holds the door open, letting me in before throwing the locks behind me. An entire wall of his room is glass. The moon, one click past half, rides low in the sky on a bed of stars.
Cian blows by me and starts pacing the room. âWeâre both double-dipping already. Youâve got Jack on The Chieftainâs Son and Is it Hot in Here? panels. Iâve got Sala on Starâs Shadow and Women Taking Charge. We both need a bang-up triple-dip.â
My shoulder blades remain glued to the door.
Cian raps knuckles on the window. âDash is looking for the unexpected. A mind-blowing fan experience.â
Kicking off his shoes, Cian plunks into one of the chairs at the table in front of the window and frees a tablet from the messenger bag on the floor. âIâve got my cast on standby.â The snap of his fingers is a gunshot as he scrolls furiously across his screen. âYes! MetaMeme is in L.A. If theyâll come downâ¦â He types without looking up at me. âGrab your tablet, Meg. List your resources and every pie-in-the-sky whim you have for the panel. Iâll do the same, and then weâll put our heads together and suss this out.â
The moment Cianâs door closed, my gnarled vines of memory, self-preservation, and previous lapses in judgement rise from the floor, twisting around me until Iâm motionless inside their woody prison. Cian is competition, pure and simple. Have I fallen into the same scenario that ripped the guts from my body on the day I lost the Trinity scholarship because I put my head together with my then-boyfriend on our competing projects? The bastard abused his inside knowledge and our relationship to belittle and denigrate my presentation and exalt his in front of an auditorium filled with classmates, parents, and judges. My sister Taryn is always at me to get past it, but I lost three things in the space of a breath that day: the scholarship, my first love, and trust in anyone but me to create success.
Cianâs stream of consciousness fills the room until he stops cold, catching sight of the statue at his door. âMeg?â
A dozen variations of my own voice hiss warnings in my head. When I kissed Cian on the beach and kept him from walking away from me at Casa de Fiesta, I violated a fundamental truth thatâs allowed me to move forward in life. Success is the exclusive responsibility of one person, me. Now Iâve gone and allowed myself to attach to this man. If I felt anything less for him, my feet wouldnât be planted inside the doorway of his room.
But this is Cian. He matters to me. Iâve already let him in to my life, competition be damned, and Iâm not sorry. Staring into the full-length mirror on the wall next to me, I see a fool. Not a fool who is repeating past mistakes,
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