by Celia Hayes
“Ah… Sam.”
I stop in the corridor. “What now?”
“I know you love me anyway,” he says, then gives me a wink and goes back inside. It’s hopeless, he just doesn’t know how to handle a relationship and he’s totally incapable of behaving normally. With the practical part, there are times when he is unbeatable, I swear – it’s just the theory that he can’t get through his head. It’s pointless: he doesn’t try hard enough, he’s lazy, he’s distracted, he takes no notice when you try to tell him where he’s going wrong.
But what can I say? I tried to forget him, tried cancelling his number and doing without him, but I couldn’t. I’m hopelessly in love with him. Even now that I have discovered that he’s not the unattainable god I once thought he was, a kind of superhuman entity that I would worship from behind my desk, hoping that one day he would notice me. And now that I know he is just a mortal like the rest of us, with all his human defects, I love him even more. Because before he was just Dave Callaghan, the impossible deputy editor of The Chronicle, and I was just Sam Preston, an insignificant assistant in the culture section, while today he is my Dave and I am his Sam. And maybe that’s nothing so special, but it’s all that I’ve ever wanted.
It’s 3:30 p.m. on 89.9 FM and this is our last song for today here on Love Attitude. Another day glides away across the Golden Gate and we here in the Fisherman’s Wharf studios put our dreams back in their bags while we wait for the next dreams to arrive. Right here, by your side, among the lights of North Beach in a car parked in a South Park car park or in a hotel room in Noe Valley. But it’s still early. It’s still daytime on the West Coast, and we’ve got another few minutes to spend together, so turn up your radio and stay with us for one last song here on Love Attitude 89.9 FM, the station that broadcasts on the frequencies of the heart.
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CELIA HAYES works as a restorer and lives in Naples. Between one restoration and another, she loves to write. Don't Marry Thomas Clark reached no. 1 in the Amazon Italian Ebook chart.
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First published in Italy in 2018 by Newton Compton
First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Celia Hayes, 2018
The moral right of Celia Hayes to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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ISBN (E) 9781788543910
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