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Her blue eyes focused onat me with shock and confusion I knew she wanted to kno But I prayed she didn’t ask

“Nothing Sorry, I just spaced out for a second” She forced a sel along with the pink script for the

“Oliver called you this ?” I questioned when Austin stepped closer to me, his back to her

“Apparently he quit last night”

“He what?” Hell must have frozen over

“I’ it was before our other issue” He paused before speaking again “Neither of you should have stayed here last night”

“Where else could we have gon

e?” She couldn’t have left in her state, and certainly not before the room had been cleaned

He sighed, knowing I was right “You need to rerew up like a princess, the daughter of a star, and then beca you’ve lived as a celebrity, will always be from the Southbend”

My jaw and fists tensed at what he was io sluood ol’ ho a dealer, stripper, thief, murderer, or the person theyFrank beat the shit out ofway, and then there was the Noah Sloan—the actor I had spentto keep therasp

“I’to remind you that the way you see the world may be different than how she does To you, this is another skeleton in the closet To her, the world has flipped on its head”

“She’ll be fine”

“Noah—”

“I know her”

“You knew her … years ago”