The Farthest Star by Sally Glover

Author:Sally Glover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781738662036
Publisher: Sally Glover
Published: 2023-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I knew I’d left Domino feeling…weird. But I’d last emptied the bucket around six, and rain had been pounding down for the seven plus hours since then. Once the door snicked closed behind me, I sprinted down the hall to the stairs and climbed them two at a time to the fifth floor, chest heaving with effort. Outside room 502, my hand trembled as I slid in the key card, nervous about what I’d find. I let out the breath I hadn’t realized I was holding at the sight of the full bucket, a small puddle about six inches wide around it.

It could have been worse. Much worse. I raced to the shower stall with it, doing my best not to spill over the edge. After a week of this routine, I’d honed my water-carrying skills more than I ever thought I’d need. Empty bucket in hand, I grabbed a towel from the railing and rushed back to mop up the puddle.

I tossed the wet towel in the bathroom sink with my clothes from earlier and stood for a minute to let my heart rate slow. Gathering the heavy, sodden pile, I slipped on a pair of boots and traipsed the elevator. In the basement, I threw the lot in the washing machine.

A shelf beside of the dryer held laundry soap, dryer balls, and a basket of odds and ends like dish towels that needed to go back upstairs and a couple of Fern’s shirts, ready for ironing. Domino’s face stared back at me from the top of the pile. I picked up the Inside Hollywood magazine and read the headline: “Depressed Domino: Where Is She Now?”

Against my better judgment I flipped through the pages until I found the cover story. Two photos spanned the header: one of her smiling, radiant in an impossibly tiny bikini, carousing on the beach with Harry Roman, and another on the docks outside the Driftwood, eyes closed, gray sky swirling around her.

“Once half of Hollywood’s hottest couple—and we do mean hot—Domino West has disappeared from public life, retreating to a small island in the Pacific Northwest,” the article began. I skimmed the rest, the spark of anger behind my rib cage bursting into a flame.

Farther down the page was a series of four photos of Domino with a different man in each. “Domino’s Dating History,” read the caption, along with their names, which didn’t mean anything to me. I figured they must be famous, too.

I’d seen enough. I closed the magazine and tossed it back where I’d found it, determined now to see the situation with Domino for what it really was. She was here—temporarily—for work. And I was a diversion—a distraction from the circus of her real life. It was obvious she was attracted to men who ran in her circles, who looked good on a red carpet, who could help elevate her career. Her own Hollywood happy ending.

I stalked through the basement back to the elevator. On the ride to the

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