New Olympus Trilogy: Teenage Goddess Teenage Star Hell on Earth by May Burnett

Author:May Burnett [May Burnett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mind Games Publications
Published: 2014-06-22T07:00:00+00:00

2

The next morning started with a call from a journalist who must have bribed the hotel to put him through to my suite. “Congratulations on your new romance,” she said in a sugary voice. “How are you enjoying the Mediterranean?”

“No comment,” I growled, then switched on my laptop and searched.

Alice, that snake, had betrayed me. There it was - an article in Hollywood News.

“Teen idol Jason Mackenzie is consoling himself over his last girlfriend’s disappearance with rising star Amy Thurlow. Their relationship is hot and heavy,” I read. It had Alice’s handwriting all over it, I even recognised one of her favourite turns of phrase.

This was too much.

I checked my email to see if she’d given me any warning of the new romance. Nothing from Alice. I instead I found an email with three attachments from my father’s accountants.

Report on the investigation into the business practices of J. Murdock and Associates, was the ominous title.

I had no printer in my hotel room, so I was glad to find an executive summary ahead of the lengthy report. The contents were less satisfactory. As I read, my hands became numb and my head began to feel a furious pounding. If Murdock had been before me at that moment, I might well have thrown myself on him and tried to pummel him in my anger. Considering he’d been a professional boxer in his youth, this might not have ended well for me. A good thing I was in Cyprus rather than L.A., so I could regain my cool before doing anything I might later regret.

Murdock had been swindling me, skimming off part of the earnings from the music side of my business, with the apparent connivance of the record label. It had started when I was only thirteen. He owed me several million dollars,

So that was why he’d been so opposed to my going independent.

I felt like crying for a moment. It was not the money, of which I had enough anyway, but that they were just using me so cynically ---to be betrayed by Alice and by Jerry, and find out about both the very same morning, was tough.

I imagined Myra sitting next to me, on the rumpled hotel bed. What would she advise me to do?

“Nobody cares about me, it’s all about the money,” I moaned to phantom Myra.

She smiled and shook her head. “You deserve to be loved, Jason. Just remember to separate your business from your feelings. These people are not worth agonising over.”

Even in my imagination, she always had good sense and advice. Had she really been so calm and serene? I thought so, but could no longer be completely sure. The short time we’d known each other seemed hidden behind a mist of unreality.

I had no time that morning to do anything about my treacherous publicist and agent, as we had to resume the filming just then, but I stewed over the news over the whole day. A few good-natured jokes about my love life did not help.

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