Wyatt (7 Brides for 7 Soldiers #4) by Lynn Raye Harris

Author:Lynn Raye Harris [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781941002254
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing
Published: 2017-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Paige wanted to squirm. It was uncomfortable watching herself be a bitch. She’d never had trouble with the episodes in the past—had studied them relentlessly—but now they made her uneasy.

Probably because the man sitting nearby didn’t say much. He’d slouched in his seat, drink near his hand, elbow on the arm of the sofa and his fingers near his mouth as he studied the screen.

After every episode, he’d queue up the next one. There were ten of them, forty minutes without commercials. Almost seven hours of privileged women prancing across the screen and getting into catfights over the most inane thing, or acting stupid because the viewers liked to think they were better than the people on-screen in some way. There were lunches, dinners, shopping trips where they spent ridiculous amounts of money.

There was also dating. Paige had only gone on one date so far. That was the one with Donnie Warren. There hadn’t been any real sparks, but they’d pretended for the cameras. Wyatt hadn’t gotten to that episode yet.

Paige was the one the others loved to hate. She refused to play stupid over anything, and they despised her for it. Except for Lily, who only pretended to be upset with her. The other princesses had meetings behind her back, complained about her, made plans to cut her from their lives. Servants strolled in and out of the frame, and that was when Wyatt seemed to pay even more attention.

“Who’s that guy?” he’d ask.

“Oh, that’s John. He’s an actor,” she’d say. Or some variation on that sentence each and every time. Sometimes the servants were real. The waiters and waitresses in restaurants were often real, though not always.

“So he’s not been on the show again?” Wyatt would ask from time to time.

“No. He was there for that episode. Haven’t seen him again.”

After five episodes, Paige couldn’t take it another moment. As Wyatt let the next episode start to load, she got to her feet.

“Can we take a break? Please?”

He looked up at her with serious eyes. “I need to see these, Paige.”

“You don’t have to see every single episode back to back. Let’s take a break. Please, I’m begging you.”

He finally nodded and pressed the Stop button. “Okay.”

She paced away from him, toward the kitchen, her stomach burning with shame and anger.

“What’s wrong, Paige?”

When she whirled around, Wyatt was there, looking concerned.

Her feelings bubbled over like a pot of water left too long. She flung her arms wide. “I’m just sick of watching, okay? I thought—I thought I was getting somewhere in my career with the show. I had all those meetings with people—and not one of them took a chance on me. I watched every episode when it aired, and I never saw the patronizing expressions those men and women had before. Why didn’t I know they weren’t taking me seriously? Why didn’t I see they were making fun of me?”

“I don’t think they were making fun of you, Paige. I think they were listening to you but having a hard time reconciling the brain inside the pretty head.

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