Chapter 65

• The week has sucked so far. Annabelle's applicants and select interviews for the new staff position at The House have been horrible. Unqualified. Underwhelming. Unexciting.
• It might not help that her mind is not all there either. She's tired because sleep comes in short bouts interrupted by confusing nightmares of Nicholas and Max interchanging. Her subconscious is obviously having a field day with her emotions. She's cranky because she’s eating everything in sight, and yet she has no desire to go run and work off all of the excess calories that she’s stuffing in her mouth to abate her misery. She's irritable because Haddie is watching her like a hawk, calling her every hour to check up on her, and turning off Matchbox Twenty anytime she catches her listening to it.
• She's petulant because Teddy just forwarded her an email from Tawny listing all of the events that CD Enterprises is requesting her presence at to promote their new partnership. And that means that she will have to stand side by side with Nicholas, the sole cause of her current miserable state. Because despite the four days that have passed, nothing has helped to ease the ache radiating through her heart and soul from her last moments with Nicholas. She wants to tell herself to get a grip, that they only knew each other a short time, but nothing works. She still wants him. She still feels him. She's pathetic.