Any Kind of Life (Hush Liverpool Book 4) by Melissa Tereze

Author:Melissa Tereze [Tereze, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GPC Publishing
Published: 2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Paige’s phone started to ring in the bedroom for the second time in under a minute. She rushed through the apartment to get it, almost slipping and breaking her neck when she skidded on the polished hardwood bedroom floor in her socks.

She didn’t have time to check the screen. “Hello?”

“Have you seen the news?”

Ah. It was Henry. “No. Why?”

“Hang on. I’ll send the link over.” Paige heard traffic in the background, then Henry muttering something. Chances were, he didn’t know what he was doing. “I think I’ve sent it.”

Paige’s phone vibrated. “Yep. Got it. One sec.”

She brought up the news article, her heart free falling into her stomach the moment she read the headline.

Ex-defence lawyer gutted in exclusive bar.

Paige’s stomach churned, tears stinging her eyes as she read the headline again. How could people be so heartless with their reporting? How could a paper print absolute shit? Paige didn’t want to read any further. She’d seen enough already.

“I was hoping the papers wouldn’t report it,” Paige spoke quietly into the phone as she lowered herself to the bed. “And when they did…be a little less brutal.” She understood that not everyone liked Juliet based on her previous career, Paige sometimes found it hard to understand how she could represent the people she had, but this? Gutted. God, she felt sick.

“It’s a rag of a paper. I wouldn’t worry about it. But I did want to give you a heads-up. You know, if people start getting in touch with you.”

“Like who?” Paige stared down at the floor, frowning. There was nobody to contact her. Neither of them had any family. None they kept in touch with, anyway.

“Reporters. Friends. Anyone really.” Henry cleared his throat. “Don’t forget that you’re now a face in the music industry, Paige. People will want you to say something about it all.”

Paige may be seen as a face in the music industry, but she had done the right thing in mostly keeping Juliet out of the spotlight. A lot of people likely didn’t know they were together unless they’d followed the tour heavily. “Yeah, well, they can have two words from me. Fuck off. That should give them an idea of what I think.”

Henry laughed. “Perfect. And likely what Juliet would expect you to say.”

“Well, thanks for letting me know. If I hear anything from the hospital, I’ll give you a quick call.” Paige ended the call and sighed. This was the last thing Juliet would need once she was awake and on the road to recovery. Fucking journalists wanting answers. Nobody had the right to answers, nobody at all. “This is fucked.”

Paige dragged herself back out into the living room and threw her phone onto the couch. She had only been home from the hospital for two hours—on the advice of Juliet’s nurse so she could rest—but she didn’t seem to have a minute to sit and process. Something was always going on in some corner of her life.

A sudden hammering on the door had Paige backing up against the nearest wall.

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