The Candidate's Wife by Isabella Ashe

Author:Isabella Ashe [Ashe, Isabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Amazon: B00AA5CMU6
Goodreads: 16164250
Publisher: Starfish Press
Published: 2012-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

For Julia, the next two days were among the most miserable of her life. Adam kept his distance. When he did chance to cross her path, his cold, distrustful expression never softened. Despite a four-point jump in the polls, the mood in campaign headquarters was equally dismal. Adam now trailed Norris by just 11 percent*, but news of a traitor in the ranks served to dampen any high spirits.

On Thursday, Julia dragged herself into campaign headquarters. Unable to face Adam, she had avoided the early-morning staff meeting, but as soon as she arrived one of his senior speech writers asked her whether she would mind tracking down some crime statistics.

Glad for the distraction, Julia settled down in front of her computer. She quickly accessed a government database on the Web, entered her login and password, and began her search. Just as she located a batch of relevant documents, Valerie materialized next to her desk. "Hey, Julia, what's new?"

Julia gritted her teeth in reaction to Valerie's cheerful exuberance. The bouncy redhead grated on her nerves. Still, she knew it wasn't fair to take her own frustration out on Valerie. She saved her search results and swiveled around in her chair. "Not much new here, Valerie. How are you?"

She heaved a sigh. "Bored. Seriously bored. I'm not allowed to do anything around here except make photocopies and answer the phones."

"Why the rush? You're still in college."

"Yeah." Valerie shrugged. "I just hate being so unimportant, you know? Anyway, can I ask you a question?" She rushed ahead without waiting for Julia's reply. "Do you know if, like, they found out who gave all that stuff to Howard?"

"Do I know who leaked those documents to the Times? No." Julia sighed. "I wish I did. Adam and Phil are working on it."

"But they don't have any ideas?"

Julia shot Valerie a hard look. "Why do you ask?"

The intern laughed. "Just curious, I guess. Hey, I'd better get back to work. See ya."

Valerie disappeared in the direction of the communications director's office. Julia turned back to her computer screen. Before she could refine her search, her phone buzzed. As she picked up the receiver, she rolled her eyes at the second interruption in just a few minutes. At this rate, she would never get any work done.

"Julia Moore?" A rough male voice, slightly overeager. "Though it's Julia Carmichael now, isn't it?"

"Speaking," she said warily.

"Jules, my love, you've forgotten my voice. It's been a while, hasn't it?"

Julia sat stunned for a long moment. She felt as if she'd received an actual, physical blow, and her blood seemed to freeze in her veins. Finally, with great effort, she managed to speak. "What do you want, Frank?" she asked.

"Just checking in, Jules. You sound tense. Doesn't marriage agree with you?"

Julia's nails bit into her palms as she tightened her hand around the receiver. "Not always," she said coldly.

Her ex-husband chuckled. "Oh, come on, babe, let's not dig up the past. Let's talk about the future, instead."

"What do you want?" Julia repeated.

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