Total pages in book: 58
Estimated words: 53349 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 267(@200wpm)___ 213(@250wpm)___ 178(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 53349 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 267(@200wpm)___ 213(@250wpm)___ 178(@300wpm)
Kate swallowed. This did feel intimate. More intimate than anything she had felt for a long time. Talking with Mitch felt as though there were no barriers between them, and for once, it was a good feeling. Maybe the impossible had finally happened. Maybe she’d run into someone she could actually open up to without it feeling strange, or dangerous, or both.
“Is it wrong to say that I like where this is going?” Kate asked.
Mitch shook his head. “It’s certainly going better than my editor said it would. She said I wouldn’t get through the door.”
“Your… editor?” Kate asked. Something clamped around her heart like a vise, and she stepped back.
Mitch held out a hand again. “Sorry, I guess I didn’t introduce myself that well. Mitch Macauley. I write for the LA Times. I’m here to do a piece on Married in Malibu.”
Kate froze at those words. They couldn’t be right, could they? The world couldn’t be that cruel. But of course it could. No wonder he’d come up to her and had been so nice. It hadn’t had anything to do with being attracted to her, or with wanting to get to know her. And if he’d been easy to talk to, it was only because that was what he was paid to be good at. She couldn’t believe that she’d fallen for this.
“Excuse me, I have to go,” Kate said, heading off into the crowd in search of Travis so that he could have Mitch removed. How had he even gotten in here? Kate didn’t know the answer to that question, but she did know that she felt embarrassed in a way she never had before. Maybe his piece would be great, a free ad for Married in Malibu, but Kate didn’t even care. She’d gone and shared herself in what she’d believed was a private conversation, not something she’d thought would be broadcast to the world. Obviously, she could not trust Mitch Macauley!