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Through the parted bodies, the hole beginning to close, I got limpse at the man at the front of the room, our director, the famed Paulo Romansky A man I had seen before, one fateful afternoon back on the Upper East Side: Nicole’s hipster boyfriend
28 Oh I Totally Get It
Everything suddenly
Clarke’s stern directive to watch her on set
Her role in a big budget fil arrow that pointed directly to thewith the director It was so obvious I was almost insulted
How stereotypical could she be? Everyone alking around snidely suggesting that she’d bought her way onto the film, but oh NO It was so much worse Especially since Romansky was also married, to one of those Victoria Secret s I had a moment of pity for his wife but I’d seen plenty of photos of her She’d bounce back Literally Her return to glory would be the perky boobs-in-a-ht of him and tried to spot Nicole over the scores of heads, over a hundred people crowding the room Sostarted I gave up on ainst the doorframe
I needed a drink I couldn’t i to face Nicole Not whenall flushed and itchy and it felt like I was going to--of all things--cry Cry! Where in the hell did that weakness come from? It wasn’t like I was ee, wasn’t like I’d just discovered the affair But now that I kneho he was, it seeuy? Or was he just a stepping-stone she took to get this role? I could handle an affair for love, but cheating on Clarke for a role--that here
My mind flashed to Clarke, the intensity on his face when he’d cornered me in the house "Keep an eye on her" He’d said the words shortly, with a bit of an edge "Formy eye on her do? What would I do with iven roaned and dropped my head to my chest, too confused to knohat to do In my back pocket, my cell buzzed, and I fished it out of ht then
Clarke
The text was short and deadly Seen anything?
I stared at it, no idea how to respond The ainst me in their exit, and I still stared down at those letters
Seen anything?
C9 C9 C9
Carter lived in C9 Not that I’d been thinking about it But I couldn’t stop i the what ifs Especially when I was alone in bed, , ainst my skin What if he knocked on ? What if … I rolled over in bed and pulled my blanket over my head
C9 It was one floor and three doors away I didn’t kno long I could fight against it I swore his da