Melted (Cooking up a Celebrity Book 1) by Hadley Harlin

Author:Hadley Harlin [Harlin, Hadley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henwin Press LTD
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

We’d settled into a small hotel that looked like a German gingerbread house made out of wood with a huge cuckoo clock painted in the front. It screamed Alpine.

Production basically bought the place out due to it being off-season. This was no doubt costing production a pretty penny. If I had to guess, their skinflint asses regretted not splurging on cast plane tickets now.

My room had a snowy picture-perfect view, if one cared about perfect anything when they were fucking stranded. Charlotte may have said it would only be a few hours, but I knew bullshit when I heard it. She wouldn’t have been authorized to buy out the rooms if that was the case.

Just as I was steaming up a muscle-relaxing shower, my phone rang. Dad’s VA number scrolled across the screen.

I took a deep breath and exhaled. “Hi, Dad.”

On the other end, Dad’s voice was low and unapologetic. “Did you think I wouldn’t hear about what you did?”

“Why do you care what I do in Milan?”

“Milan? What are you talking about? My fucking nurse showed me another magazine article, a nasty one, and it’s got your foul fingerprints all over it.”

The light went on inside my head. Dad may have gone crazy, but he fancied himself a gentleman through and through.

“I may have shit on you,” he continued, “but did you ever see me shit on your mother? Or any other woman for that matter?”

“This wasn’t about shitting on Sophia, as you so eloquently put it.”

“Cut the fancy bullshit,” Dad barked at me, his military training taking over. “You know better.”

I said nothing. I’d already owned my mistake to Sophia. I saw no need to own it to Dad, too.

He snapped on me. “By the way, whatever happened to Emma? I’m sure you screwed her over a thousand different ways to Monday. Is that why she left?”

It wasn’t worth arguing about or even telling him the truth. That I’d broken little, innocent Emma’s heart. Why give him that satisfaction or more ammunition against me? He didn’t deserve the truth. “Pretty much, Dad.”

“She was the best thing to happen to you.”

“Guess, I’ll never know.”

“She was always so sweet and attentive to you. And now what? You’re going to wander around the world looking for something you can never have for all of eternity? That’s not what an adult does. They find a person who’s good, and they take some goddamn responsibility.”

I stood up, breathing heavily through my nostrils. “That’s enough, old man. I saw how the ‘best thing’ can ruin a life. It ruined you for good. Why do you think you’re stuck there? You brainwashed one person into thinking you were worth it when everybody else sees your crankiness for what it is: a fucking nuisance. Goodbye, Dad.”

I hung up, still breathing raggedly, and punched the wall. Fuck. My knuckles were definitely going to be bruised. Hopefully makeup could do something about that before our next film day.

Although by the looks of this storm, I’d have all the time in the world to heal.

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