WILL YOU (PRETEND) MARRY ME BY CHRISTI BARTH – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Christi Barth
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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The applause was a thunderous roar, like standing in the middle of
Niagara Falls. Confetti cannons fired red and white paper over the mosh pit.
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The fans loved it.
Kaia loved it even more. The confetti cannons were her cue to leave
the stage after two encores and five bows. Her costume—with tights, two
pairs of fishnets over them, sequined corset and shorts, and over-the-elbow
gloves—was soaked in sweat. After six months on a world tour, her vocal
cords were whimpering for a rest.
She gave a final wave. “Good night, Miami!”
Whoops. Then she frantically hoped she was in Miami and hadn’t
gotten the name of the city wrong. And then Kaia was blissfully offstage.
Her band kept playing. Some numbers whiz had determined that if
music kept playing, fans were 57.28 percent more likely to buy concert
swag as they made their way out of the arena. Kaia made sure her band got
a percentage of the take, so they were happy to keep going.
Not her.
Not tonight.
The tour wrap party was last night. There weren’t any meet and
greets lined up. Kaia was officially done.
The only secret, from most of her team and absolutely the rest of the
world, was just how thoroughly done she was.
Jessica Tilson, her best friend and life manager (Kaia had hired her
as a personal assistant, but Jessica took it upon herself to change her title)
waited just offstage with a terry cloth bathrobe.
“How do you feel?”
Talk about a stumper. Tonight was the culmination of not only the
tour, but the month of album release PR prior to it, the eight weeks of
recording and mixing, the month of rehearsals, and a solid nine months of
writing the songs for this album.
After having rinsed and repeated all of those pieces for five previous
albums.
Kaia was burned out. Worn-out. Wrung out.
She adored writing songs. Absolutely loved performing; whether to
a cabaret audience of a hundred or a sold-out stadium concert of fifty
thousand. The exhaustion, the burnout, would eventually clear.
The feeling that she could be, ought to be, doing more would not.
That feeling had niggled at her for ages. And now she was on the
verge of doing something about it. Which filled her with anticipation. Fear.
Trepidation. Every single synonym for am I doing the right thing by taking
this huge risk.
Far easier to stick to the headliner feelings. She slumped into the
golf cart used to zip her around the endless warren of stadium ramps.
“Exhausted and exhilarated.”
Jessica waited for Cole-the-bodyguard to jump onto the back
bumper before hitting the gas. As they whizzed past the straggling line of
backup dancers, she asked, “Exhilarated enough to do one more round of
meet and greets?”
Why not ask her to run a triathlon and deliver a TED talk to truly
cap off the evening?
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