Stars in Their Eyes by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Lauren Blakely Books
Published: 2014-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Jess

William parked himself in a chair at the corner café next to JP’s office. “Back in five. I’ll tell your former short-lived employer you said hi,” I said as I opened the door to the building. I needed to get paid, and get the afternoon assignments.

“Yes. Please do that,” he said as he pulled out his iPad to work on homework while waiting for me.

“You liked my surprise pic?” I asked J.P. as I entered his dark and dimly lit confines.

“You made my day with it,” he said, swiveling the screen around to show me where the shot of Jenner at lunch had landed–the Web site of On the Surface.

“Good. Now make my day, J.P. Why was Jenner Davies having lunch with a guy who runs a photo agency?”

“Huh?”

“The guy in the photo,” I said, pointing to Keats on the computer screen on his desk. “The guy he’s having lunch with.”

JP stabbed his meaty finger against the other guy in the picture, the one who looked like a carbon copy of Keats.

“That guy,” J.P. said, gesturing to the older of the small-nosed brothers, “is Jenner Davies’ publicist.”

My eyebrows knit together as I tried to process what he’d just said. “What?”

“Name is Wordsworth Wharton,” J.P. said and laughed loudly, then rolled his eyes. “Can you believe it? What am I going to learn next? That his brother is named Keats?”

It was a rhetorical question. Even so I whispered yes. But I still didn’t move a muscle; I sat in the rickety wooden chair by his desk, with some kind of strange unexpected shock on my features. Keats’ older brother was Jenner’s publicist, and the trio of them had seemed immensely pleased. A sense of unease rolled through me, as if the joke was on me, only I had no clue what it was.

JP stared hard at me as if I were two puzzle pieces he couldn’t quite align. “Jess, what’s the big deal? Actors have lunch with their publicists all the time.”

Right. I couldn’t let on that Jenner wasn’t just having lunch with his publicist. Jenner Davies was having lunch with his publicist and also his publicist’s younger brother who happened to run a rival photo agency that had happened to contract for shots of a secret tryst between a young actress and a married director. I had inside information, but the information didn’t add up, so I plastered on my best game face as I tried to mentally connect the dots between Jenner, and the poetically named pair of brothers. Maybe they were all buddies. Maybe Wordsworth was helping Keats grow his business. Maybe their get-together was simply the next item in Keats’ agenda for the day.

But that moment of laughter when they all seemed to be in on the same joke weighed on me.

Not wanting to be surprised again, I made a mental note to add faces of publicists to my flash cards because I hadn’t recognized Jenner’s publicist.

I shifted gears. “I’ve got a lead on the wedding. Looks like I might be able to get in,” I told him.

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