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Pandy took a step backward The heel of her shoe caught in one of the tears in the cracked leather

She went down

CHAPTER TWO

EYES FIRMLY shut, Pandy rolled over, deterht

Theever cos always out of one’s control?

She felt around her face for her eye ers sensed padded foa For starters, there see reeked Of expensive perfume—

Pandy gasped, hinged upright into a sitting position, and flung the offending garht her breath and moaned A band of pain radiated froht in a vise The pain was bad, but that was to be expected She’d had too much to drink—everyone had had too es She’d known she would wake up with a Godzilla of a hangover—one that, as she liked to say, could destroy tall buildings in New York Mysteriously, however, this expected pain was acco throb on the back of her head

Like being tapped, again and again, by a s a tiny hammer

Pandy’s exploring fingers discovered a luri off the couch And then what?

She leaned over the side of the bed What she’d thought was her eye mask was a hot pink bra with cups the size of cantaloupes Suzette’s? Or Meghan’s? They’d both gone to the saeon Pandy dropped it back onto the floor Daotten drunk, and all of a sudden they’d started trying on each other’s clothes

The phone rang The landline, not her device Making it harder to ignore

Pandy stared at the phone Its incessant ringing was incoroaned and gritted her teeth There was only one person who could possibly be calling this early in the ht before

“Hello, Henry” Her voice cracked on the first word, but by the tied to infuse his na

Henry wouldn’t be fooled; he was all too familiar with how she lost her voice when she’d had too much to drink He’d warned her about it lass of ith every blogger ants to interview you, not only will you have consumed the equivalent of six bottles of wine, but you will also have no voice Meaning you cannot talk Meaning you cannot tell all these journalists how fabulous your new Monica book is Meaning, what is the point of you being on a book tour at all?”

“Funny, it never feels like six bottles,” she’d said ly