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“The mayor’s party? When I was invited and you weren’t?”

“I guess Doug told you,” Pandy said “Well, so what? Maybe I was jealous But that doesn’t uy”

“Of course not,” SondraBeth sneered “Because as usual, you, PJ Wallis, are a far better person than I areith all the manners”

“Not this again,” Pandy said warningly

“Listen, I made a mistake,” SondraBeth said “I honestly didn’t think you’d be that angry about it You said that you were done with hiht you felt the way I did Like he was kind of a PandaBeth toy”

“What?” Pandy screeched

“Oh, cal Haven’t you learned to stop being such an idealist? Surely you know that these kinds of things happen in life You just hate it when they happen to you Anyway, I was never in love with Doug”

“I thought you tere supposed to be soul mates,” Pandy sneered

“Well, I found out pretty quickly that eren’t,” SondraBeth said,back into the bedroom as Pandy followed her “Especially when I discovered that , everywhere, and everyone was covering up for him And then, it was too late It was all over the tabloids that ere together And then you went and married Jonny”

Pandy frowned “What’s that got to do with it?”

“Nothing,” SondraBeth said, leaning back on the bed “It’s just that when you and Jonny got reat idea if Monica got married as well”

“Are you saying your getting engaged to Doug was the studio’s idea?”

“Did you think it was mine?” SondraBeth asked

“Why didn’t you say no?”

“Because I liked having sex with hiood publicity For Monica In fact, I al with it—for Monica But in the end, I couldn’t do it I didn’t love hih with that much of a lie