"Roberts, Nora - Stanislaski 05 - Waiting For Nick" - читать интересную книгу автора (Roberts Nora)

She doubted that she could have left it if she hadn't known she would
always be welcomed back with open arms.

It was true that she had been to New York many times, and had ties
there, as well, but she already missed the familiar--her own room,
tucked into the second story of the old stone house, the love and
companionship of her siblings, her father's music, her mother's laugh.

But she wasn't a child any longer. She was twenty-four, and long past
the age to begin to make her own.

In any case, she reminded herself, she was very much at home in
Manhattan. After all, she'd spent the first few years of her life there.
And much of her life in the years after had included visits--but all
with family, she acknowledged.

Well, this time, she thought, straightening her shoulders, she was on
her own. And she had a job to do. The first order of business would be
to convince a certain Nicholas LeBeck that he needed a partner.

The success and reputation he'd accumulated as a composer over the past
few years would only increase with her beside him as his lyricist.
Already, just by closing her eyes and projecting, she could envision the
LeBeck-Kimball name in lights on the Great White Way. She had only to
let her imagination bloom to have the music they would write flow like a
river through her head.

Now all she had to do, she thought with a wry smile, was convince Nick
to see and hear the same thing.

She could, if necessary, use family loyalty to persuade him. They were,
in a roundabout way; semi-cousins.

Kissing cousins, she thought now, while her eyes lighted with a smile.
That was her final and most vital mission. Before she was done, Nick
would fall as desperately in love with her as she was, had always been,
with him.

She'd waited ten years for him, and that, to Freddie's mind, was quite
long enough.

It's past time, Nick, she decided, tugging on the hem of her royal blue
blazer, to face your fate.

Still, nerves warred with confidence as she stood outside the door of
Lower the Boom. The popular neighborhood bar belonged to Zack Muldoon,
Nick's brother. Stepbrother, technically, but Freddie's family had
always been more into affection than terminology. The fact that Zack had
married Freddie's stepmother's sister made the
Stanislaski-Muldoon-Kimball-LeBeck families one convoluted clan.