Breaking Hollywood by Shari King

Author:Shari King [King, Shari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447255123
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

26.

‘Fire and Rain’ – James Taylor

Zander

Adrianna hadn’t even looked back. It was as if she knew what he was going to say and didn’t want to hear it. She just strutted forward, head held high, her arm wrapped around the crook of her husband’s elbow. From the floor-to-ceiling windows, Zander watched as they crossed the rain-swept tarmac and stepped onto the gleaming Challenger 300 that was parked directly beside the Gulfstream G200 that had brought them here.

His hands had shaped themselves into fists, and his jaw was clenched so hard it was making his teeth ache. His gut was twisting so tightly it felt like it was ripping his insides apart. This was like the worst comedown ever. Worse than the aftereffects of a three-day coke binge. Worse than waking up to the sound of a cellmate pissing in a steel toilet.

Fuck, he really, really needed a drink.

Every day that thought crossed his mind, and every day he pushed it away, but right now he’d never felt more like locking himself in a confined space with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a whole lot of self-reproach.

‘Mr Leith, we’re ready to take you through now,’ the smiley ground-control attendant told him.

His head was buzzing. When he boarded the plane, he couldn’t remember the walk from the terminal, his whole brain still consumed by the sight of her walking away, not turning back.

Again, fuck, he really needed a drink.

On board, it was the same hostess who had been there on the way over, and if she looked surprised to see him alone, she didn’t show it. Over the years Zander had had many wild times on private jets. There was the time he flew from New York to Paris with eight girls, three bags of coke and a legendary guitarist, renowned for debauchery and excess. Only when they woke up back in the Big Apple did they realize they’d been too messed up to remember to get off the plane in France.

On another occasion, flying from LA to Miami for a location shoot, he’d played Wild Turkey strip poker with an actress famous for playing the ditsy lead role in chick flicks. Every time one of them lost a hand, they had to down two fingers of Turkey and remove an item of clothing. By the time they were an hour east of California, they were doing stuff that was undoubtedly illegal in several of the states below them.

‘Can I get you anything, Mr Leith?’

Fuck, he really needed a drink.

And he could have one. Who would know? He could take a bottle right now to the bedroom and drink himself into a stupor, then sleep it off until he reached LA. Job done. Oblivion achieved.

Chloe would know. He wasn’t sure he believed in the afterlife, and he definitely didn’t believe in heaven or hell, but if they did exist, he was pretty sure she’d be above him, calling him all the fuckers under the sun for even considering getting wasted.

He’d promised her.

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