10 Dates (The Hollywood Socialite) by Bridget Van der Eyk

Author:Bridget Van der Eyk [Van der Eyk, Bridget]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Mutiny

“Wills, you OK?” Libby asked.

Willa looked up from her oat milk latte and realized that she had spent the last five minutes stirring it while completely lost in thought. The Pack, minus Anita, were in New York City for the weekend having coffee at the Café Charlotte on the first floor of the Niven Hotel in midtown Manhattan. She and Libby were here for casting for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition at Sports Illustrated Headquarters a couple of blocks away, and Christie and Charlie were along for a glamorous weekend in NYC.

This was Willa’s first time being invited to the casting for the swimwear edition after many years of struggling to even be considered. No matter how many modeling jobs, particularly swimwear, she had managed to book over the years, she’d still missed out. Her agency, Aurora Models, was an up-and-coming agency that had been representing her for two years now. They were great at landing her jobs, but most of them were catalog shoots, which paid the bills but weren’t going to launch her career. It was, just by luck, that she had tagged along with Libby to a Victoria’s Secret photo shoot a couple of months ago and had made some contacts that worked for Sports Illustrated. Those contacts had then gone through Aurora to send her an invitation to come to casting calls this weekend. Only twenty-five models would make it into the magazine this year and, despite how competitive it always is, Willa was hoping that she would be one of the models that landed one of those coveted spots.

“Yeah, all good,” Willa nodded.

“Right well, Christie and I are off to do some shopping on 5th Avenue before high tea,” Charlie announced as she got up from her seat, swinging her limited-edition Marc Jacobs x Charlie Niven handbag over her shoulder.

“Oo, where are you girls off to for high tea?” Libby asked.

Charlie locked eyes with Libby for a split second before she disappeared behind her phone, typing away on the screen as if she were replying to an important message. Christie watched Charlie for a second before sending a small smile Libby’s way.

“The Russian Tea House,” Christie replied as she flicked one of her blonde curls over her shoulder. “We have reservations at 11:00 am.”

Willa looked from Charlie to Libby and could feel the tension building between the two. Before anyone could say anything else, though, Charlie turned heel and started walking toward the elevators. Christie quickly waved at Libby and Willa before she ran off after Charlie. Her feet nearly falling out of her clearly ill-fitting Jimmy Choos.

“Since when does Ecles wear Choos?” Libby said, rolling her eyes as she returned to her bottle of Evian.

“Who knows,” Willa replied, as she looked down at her latte and then at Libby’s bottle of water.

Libby had refused to order her usual green tea this morning with her fruit bowl, claiming that the last thing she wanted before casting was to be all caffeine bloated in her bikini.

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