Page 16 (2/2)

He and Lori had always had a special relationship and he was glad she’d asked him to coet all about Nicola

Nicola lifted the water bottle to her lips and drained it They’d all been working hard today in preparation for the fil a video was never cheap, but as soon as the ca the costs went up exponentially Nicola and the rest of her dancers needed to be ready to the nth degree by the ti

Yesterday, she’d thought she was good to go

But today had been a disaster

She couldn’t focus Not after the call that had come in from her publicist just after she’d left in the cab Nicola always had Sandra infor of her and whatever star of the week she was supposed to be dating so she’d be prepared to deal with questions

This ht to the point "I’ve just seen pictures of you leaving a club with soh Nicola had expected this, her heart had pretty much stopped Especially because she’d been too upset about her battered pride at Marcus turning her down to actually get around to telling hiht be co tiotten the pleasure she wanted to go along with itjust the sh she really didn’t want to know

"Fortunately," Sandra had said, "they’re amateur pics Both of your faces are too blurry for anyone to bother running theht want to be ing the bullet like that, she had vowed to be the most careful person on the planet froh the coain, she still couldn’t stop flashing back to her night--and --with Marcus

The lyrics to One Mo at all

All it took was one moment

One look in your eyes

One taste of your lips

To know that you were the one

The afternoon she’d written the song, she’d been listening to Cole Porter’s Fro had still been sunshine and butterflies in her life and she’d been so lucky so far that she’d believed true love was just another beautiful gift waiting around the corner She’d written One Moment as an ode to that future love and had even incorporated samples from the classic Cole Porter tune Her label had loved it, calling it fresh and catchy It helped that they also owned the licenses to the classic Cole Porter songs and hoped sales of those songs would take off as well