Jacquie D’Alessandro
Just Trust Me…
The second book in the Adrenaline Rush series, 2006
This book is dedicated with love and gratitude to the
wonderful, supportive people of PBE who came to my
Melbourne book signing and made me feel so special.
Thank you to Cheryl Heuer, Mary King, Sue Moody,
Nancy Barry, Alice Dunne and Kay and Jim Johnson
for giving me such a wonderful day.
And to my editor, Brenda Chin, whose zest for
adventure inspired this story.
And as always, to my wonderful husband, Joe,
who makes every day a Big Adventure,
and my beautiful son, Christopher,
aka Big Adventure Junior.
Prologue
KAYLA WATSON hurried through the Miami airport, cursing the high heels that prevented her from breaking into a dead run. Of course her gate was at the very end of this seemingly endless concourse. Damn it, if she missed her flight-
She cut off the thought, refusing to consider the havoc that would wreak with her already insane schedule. Her cell phone rang and she shot it an impatient glance, grimacing when the name Nelson Sigler showed on the caller ID. As much as she didn’t feel like talking to her boss at the moment, he was the CEO and expected her to answer the phone when he called.
“How’d the photo shoot go?” Nelson asked without preamble.
Exhausting. But, as the director of public relations at the New York office of La Fleur, the world’s most innovative cosmetics company, Kayla was well-acquainted with putting a positive spin on things. Especially headache-inducing photo shoots that pitted cranky, moody models against impatient, moody photographers.
“Fine,” she answered, forcing a cheery note into her voice as she wove through the crowd. “The photos will be fabulous. Perfect for the new ad campaign.” Right. Just don’t ask how much finessing and cajoling and feather-smoothing it took to make certain of that.