If the Shoe Fits: A Meant to Be Novel by Julie Murphy

Author:Julie Murphy [Murphy, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
Published: 2021-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Last night, I stayed in Anna’s room until she fell asleep. I definitely missed out on precious walkie-talkie time, but I couldn’t abandon Anna. According to her, she fell hard for Zeke when she and Drew were doing their preshow interviews. She made the first move that day by slipping him her number. They texted day and night for the week leading up to production, and she planned on backing out of the show, but she could never find the right time. She had hoped to get sent home the first night, but instead it was Drew who was sent home before both of us. It wasn’t getting sent home that Anna was worried about. It was Zeke losing his job for cozying up to a contestant.

I brushed her hair and rubbed her back, and had every intention of talking to Addison before she went to bed, but by the time I left Anna, every light in the house was off.

In the morning, Anna is crouched beside my bed waiting for me. I gasp at the sight of her chin resting on my mattress just inches from my face.

“I have to tell Henry,” she says.

I sit up slowly, propping myself up on my elbows, and look around for Stacy or Sara Claire, but they’re both already up and gone. “Wait, wait, shouldn’t you talk to Zeke first? At least find out what he promised Addison?”

She shakes her head. “It won’t be anything he can actually deliver on. He’s a junior producer,” she whispers. “He can’t even get craft services to remember that he has a nut allergy. Addison will figure that out soon enough and she’ll rat him out. If I send myself home, she loses all the power. You have to help me find Henry.”

I sit up completely, my head spinning a little from waking up too quickly. “Okay, give me a minute to get dressed, and then we’ll figure it out.”

She sits there on the floor, her whole body slumped as I put on a pair of frayed denim shorts and a T-shirt that reads I DONUT CARE ABOUT YOUR DIET.

We walk downstairs and manage to sneak out the back door and down the path to where the guesthouse is.

In the light of day, the guesthouse is covered in vines and has a beautiful rose garden just outside the window. I knock on the arched door with a bronze doorknob in the center.

“How do you know where he’s staying?” Anna asks as she peers over my shoulder.

“Does that matter?”

“Uh, yeah, actually, it does. I guess I’m not the only sister with secrets.”

I roll my eyes. “Trust me. My secrets aren’t nearly as salacious as yours.”

When I try knocking again and there’s no answer, I turn the doorknob, which is unlocked.

“Do we just go in?” Anna asks warily.

“Do you want to beat Addison to the chase or not?”

She nods, and I swing the door open, but it’s totally empty. No one. Nothing. The bed has been stripped of all of its sheets, and every sign of Henry from his suitcases to his cologne to his notebook is gone.

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