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I shake my head

"You need to sleep, Ava"

"I know I just…I couldn’t" I rub my hands over ht?"

Ashis nahn’s on his way over there now He just droppedto meet Tate and Julian at Gabe’s place I know you didn’t want hiht you’d want to know"

"Thanks, Charly"

"I saw the news…about Gabe"

I glance at her "It wasn’t "

"I know that God, you didn’t even tell me on the phone, and you could have because you knew the story was about to drop"

"I would never share Gabe’s private life with anyone I just don’t understand how this happened, Charly" My eyes sith tears, and I blink the of our private conversation, which Gabe thinks I did And a contract with by"

"Fucking Digby," Charly uy has his nose in everybody’s shit Look what he did to Vaughn"

Before Charly hn, Piper, and Cain Acton--Vaughn’s best friend--were on Digby’s talk show, doing a live interview about their upcoby exposed that Piper and Cain had been having an affair behind Vaughn’s back He was hu and hooking up with multiple woet it How Digby could say that it was me when it wasn’t And it’s not like I can call hi lies about etof our conversation or ed," Charly says

"Yeah, but it was definitely ned anything recently?"

I shakethe other day for Gabe’s cleaners"

"What?"

Lifting Gucci into her ar Indian-style, and puts Gucci back in her lap I move on the bed to face her

"It was this new forn it It’s so that their boss implemented just to prove that they’ve done the work"

"And you’d never signed one before?"

"Nope That was the first tier

"What?"

"Just odd that your signature is on a contract that you definitely didn’t sign, and only a few days ago, you signed a forn before Did you read the forned the contract giving per it"

"You by who published the story"

"Digby doesn’t write his o pieces He doesn’t need to He has a team of trashy writers who do that for hi that wheel"

"So, what? You think Sadie has so to do with it? But why use otten a recording of our conversation? She’s only at the apart the day And she’s not alone Barb, the other cleaner, is there, too"