Shooting Star by Bradley Wright

Author:Bradley Wright [Wright, Bradley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Taylor excused herself for the fourth time on her beach walk with Lexi. Lexi opened the bag of potato chips Taylor told her to bring and began feeding a small gathering of seagulls. The sun was high in the sky, and the sand between Taylor’s toes was beginning to warm. She took out her phone, and for the twelfth time she dialed Lawson’s number. She had also sent a few texts trying to warn him about what was going on. She’d received nothing in return. And she was starting to really worry.

The phone continued to ring like every other time she’d called. She moved in a circle on the beach as she waited, and when her turn brought her around to the hotel they were staying at, she could have sworn she saw a man’s leg as he went back inside a hotel room from the balcony. Her hotel room.

She did her best to count the rooms, trying to figure out if it really was hers, but did it really matter? She wasn’t going to take Lexi back to that room now. Though she didn’t tell Victoria where she was, in the back of her mind she almost knew it wouldn’t matter. She probably had police able to track her phone somehow. She heard Lawson’s voice telling her to leave a message, but she didn’t. A pit formed in her stomach as she looked back at Lexi enjoying the birds. It occurred to her that what Taylor had done might have ruined this poor girl’s life, and her father’s.

Taylor ended the call and walked back over to Lexi. Her mind was working on who she could call to help her get out of this mess. The problem wasn’t that she didn’t know anyone who could help; the problem was that she didn’t know anyone she could trust. Everyone in Hollywood knew everyone else. And word always got around. What she needed was someone who made a living being discreet.

Taylor stopped just before she reached Lexi again and turned her back to her. She needed the guy who’d helped keep her clear of what happened the night the girl in that photo died. The night of the picture that Victoria had tried to blackmail her with. Her then-agent had called him a fixer. She pulled her phone from her pocket and searched her contact list for the number. She couldn’t remember the guy’s name, so since it was all she knew him by, she scrolled to the Fs in her contacts. Sure enough, there it was: FIXER.

Taylor pressed the call button, but as soon as she looked up, she found that her suspicions about a man being on her balcony were correct. Two men had just walked off the hotel’s pool deck and onto the beach. And they weren’t wearing surfing gear either. Taylor tucked her phone in her pocket and sprinted back to Lexi.

Lexi saw her coming. “Oh no, what’s wrong?”

Taylor grabbed her by the hand and yanked her in the direction opposite the hotel as well as the two men coming toward them.

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