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Since I can’t argue with that, I invite hi to buy his coffee

We’re standing in line, chatting about The Fountainhead--the audiobook he’s currently engrossed in--when the door opens and Monica co I’d see you today I wanted to tell you to ignore thelance at Edward I have no idea what she’s talking about Froh, I think that he does

"What?" I say, first to Monica and then to Edward

"You haven’t seen? It was on one of those gossip sites this ," Monica says "It’s probably been tweeted all over creation"

"What has?" I repeat, speaking slowly and clearly

Edward reaches into hisand pulls out an iPad He taps it a few tiht it would be better not to bother you with this today"

"Oh, really?" I glance at the screen and my stomach curls Yeah, I think I could have lived without this

The article is topped by a picture of Ja on the beach That picture features an inset of Da with helpful text to infor her stuff at the home of billionaire Da to sources in the know, billionaire Daht his way out of a eant pretty Nikki Fairchild in favor of Nikki’s roo actress more recently seen on the arm (and who knohat else) of heartthrob Bryan Raine According to sources in the Inland E an accident which landed Archer in the ER and one of Stark’s prize Ferrari’s in the junkyard And yet she’s still residing at Chez Stark? What do you think, kiddies? Surely it must be love

But has Stark really ditched the Fair Child? Or is the king of excess looking for excess in his wo to insiders, Archer and Fairchild have been on-again-off-again lovers for years True? We don’t know, but photographs circling on Twitter show the threeso all too cozy recently in Lake Arrowhead where Stark keeps a mountaintop love nest

"That," I say as I pass the iPad back to Edward, "is a load of crap But Ja, after all"

"So you’re not pissed?" Monica asks

I shake my head "Irritated I’ twisted around in the press But the story itself? It’s such bullshit it’s funny"

"Well, I’ured it was all crap, but it got to me anyway I had a bad breakup," she adds