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I wipe my mouth withof rib eye was too large even for irl who appreciates a well-prepared steak But I ed to polish off all my mashed potatoes
"Excuse ratitude Cooper sends me across the table He knohere I’ after No one else notices I’ve gotten up
"Jess," I hear his brother Jordan say in a syet the appetite suppressant thing, I really do But sarettes is so bad for you Get Dr Shipley to write you a script for an ADD med instead That’s what I do when I need to lose a few before an appearance Those things work like ic And the side benefit is that the pills really help raphy and stuff"
"Perhaps because you actually have ADD," Cooper suggests, but Jordan only laughs and punches hiht says, "they called those pills ‘speed’ "
"Right," his wife agrees "Remember that time we took all that speed, then went for the drive on Martha’s Vineyard, darling?"
"No," Grant Cartwright says "That was the tiht," Patricia Cartwright says "People didn’t see as h that far," Nicole says
Jessica seeree with her sister for once "Seriously"
Their voices fade into the background as I follow the pathway--now subtly lit by halogen bulbs hidden in plantings--into the penthouse There’s no sign of Tania when I get inside, but I hear the sound of a television and the tinkling of a dog’s collarBaby is scratching hio toward it until I findand black leather couches, and spy Tania sunk into the ht of a flat-screen TV She has a faux-fur chinchilla throw pulled up over her bare legs to ward off the chilly air conditioning, and Baby is on her lap, energetically scratching his ears Both of them look up at me as I appear in the doorway
"Oh hi," I say hesitantly Neither dog nor lad to seeto find the bathroo turn?
You knohat? Screw that A producer this girl has been working with daily died today, practically in my arms I deserve some answers, and it’s ti if I could join you," I say and co the door behind etherness" I cross the roolass coffee table on which rests a decorative basket of rattan balls (dear decorators of the world: what’s up with the rattan balls?), heading directly for the couch on which she’s sitting "Scoot over"